• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Third most popular video on the guy’s channel - a million views. A handgun that can shoot all its bullets in the blink of an eye.

    30 years from now if 3D printers are unrestricted, will there be any point to gun control?

    • Voyajer@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Neither the gun nor the switch is 3d printed in that video.

      But to answer your question, you can make a firearm from actual trash if you’re sufficiently motivated. Look at the different guns Abe’s assassin made from a couple of years ago, he even made his own ammunition because of it’s lack of availability in Japan. Is the point of gun control as it currently stands to limit access to firearms period or to limit their access to good and more easily available weapons? I would say it is realistically the latter, though crossbows and air rifles are completely legal for people who are barred from owning firearms to obtain and use which sort of invalidates that too.

      • Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com
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        3 months ago

        Not to mention that under US law black powder guns are not legally considered firearms.

        While that’s technically a loophole, it’s left in place to allow poor people in rural areas to supplement their food budget with hunting even if they have a felony conviction.

    • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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      3 months ago

      Any competent person with $50 and access to a hardware store can build functional firearms. This didn’t start with 3D printers.

      It is 100% legal in the US to build ones own firearms for personal use. Only a few states have put any additional requirements around it.

      Building new full auto guns is already illegal without the proper federal licensure. It was already possible for motivated bad actors to ignore this law if they want, even before 3D printing became a moral panic.

      There is already zero point to gun control. Can’t stop the signal.