Right now it only takes five votes to allow gun owners and the NRA to do what they damn well please.
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Oh, there has to be a workable compromise. How about patent holders? The gun manufacturers must have hundreds, if not thousands, of patents. Every 3-D gun that is printed should generate income for the manufacturer under the relevant patent. The manufacturers should work out a deal with the NRA so that they aren’t shut down politically. This is the capitalist system at its highest level of functioning. It’s only fair, though, that every 3-D gun-related death should incur punishment by all stakeholders – the person who printed the gun, the 3-D printer manufacturer, the associated gun manufacturer, the NRA, and Trump.
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So Donny Dotard is finally admitting that the NRA makes and controls gun policy in this administration. Nice of him to ask their permission to think about this issue.
I’m sure the rest of the world’s governments are thrilled with the Trump administration rolling over and allowing these plans to be openly posted on the Internet. This decision affects more than just Americans, dickheads.
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Hey, Donnie - here’s a simple way to understand it. 2nd Amendment types want untraceable guns because they want to be ready to KILL COPS AND POLITICIANS. They want to hold the threat of YOUR PERSONAL DEATH over you to keep you in check. Any questions?
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Thanks for the data! I appreciate your effort - good background info.
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Anyone posting the blueprints on line should face the same rules and regulations as any high-volume gun dealer - and anyone providing these plans to a third party should be treated as any other gun re-seller. Including requirements for background checks, etc.
And if you knowingly provide either the plans or 3D printed guns to someone who uses them in a crime, you should be treated as an accessory.
[Since you can’t print bullets, perhaps we need to start regulating ammunition?]
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Here are some direct quotes from Hugh Hewitt’s latest columnic masterpiece. Since he prides himself on being a stately, lawerly, calm and rational spokesman for Trump, perhaps we can predict future policy on 3-D guns from the current administration:
- a “party of one” with a fervent following in the tens of millions.
- a giant wrecking ball on assumptions, standards, unwritten rules and codes of conduct.
- Many of those unwritten rules are better off demolished — or at least left naked in the public square — including, especially, the overwhelming liberal bias in legacy media, save for Fox News.
- The collective mask hasn’t just slipped, it’s been ripped off.
- The president has, however, surrounded himself with superb Cabinet members, especially on matters of national security.
- The economy is cooking, and while deficits have risen, the stimulus of deep and broad tax cuts is just now kicking in, with a promise of a long stretch of economic growth above 3 percent needed to bring many of the country’s poorest into the middle class.
- This president talks — and tweets — loudly, and often to the confusion of his home audience, but he carries and has used the very biggest of sticks.
- Moscow got the clearest message anyone can get anywhere.
- what Trump has done to the Democrats and the establishment media won’t be undone for a long time. He has radicalized both into engines of extremist rhetoric and policy. They will blame Trump, of course, for their outrage and sputtering, and he deserves a lot of the blame (or credit, depending on your point of view). Trump intentionally incites his opponents with mockery and disdain. So did Barack Obama.
- Electing Democrats to a majority in the House or the Senate at the height of the party’s lurch left would be a disaster
- So even if you loathe the president, vote Republican.
- Are most voters going to chose venting over their pocketbooks and their security? I hope not.
So the future on 3-D policy is somewhat akin to looking at squirrels and shooting them.
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Does the orange santorum even know what at 3-D printer is?
Trump: I want NRA to think in 5D. 3D is for TheChina as they will copy it. We must outgun The China.
He’s waiting for the ability to print 3-D sex dolls. It’s not like he needs them to have any AI capabilities.
Whatever else you think of Smith and Wesson, they make the real thing. A 3D gun is likely to not work very well, assuming the average deplorable can follow the directions (which include configuring a small-scale machine tooling system). Smith and Wesson’s guns work, and will beat four aces.
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More like they told him to tell us that he told them.
This reminds me of a chart I saw once about binge drinking, using the analogy of giving twelve beers to twelve people and how it would get divided. It was something like two people don’t partake, three people share one beer, six people share five (or maybe two of those have one beer each), and one guy chugs six on his own. Seems similar here. Some people have no guns, some just one or two (maybe a handgun or a small rifle for some hunting), some people collect a few more, and then there are the hoarders with hundreds who just keeping buying more and justify their addictions by claiming the government will take away their guns this time or something.
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It doesn’t make much sense to Trump (to much of us Trump doesn’t make sense) but he won’t do anything about it.
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I have long said (and I know I’m not alone - Chris Rock has used it) that the way to control guns in this country is to tax the ever-loving shyte out of bullets (and the equipment needed to self-load).
Require high-dollar liability insurance as well, and require proof of it at every transaction involving weapons.
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What a complete and utter schmuck. Oh, and wrong, always always wrong.
Glad I don’t have to see him anymore on MSNBC (at least the shows I watch). He used to be close to a fixture…
But that would likely make shooting ranges prohibitively expensive. How do you expect those salt-of-the-Earth middle-Americans to kill time out in Real America ™ if they can’t afford to riddle paper targets with bullet holes and litter the ground with plastic shell casings?
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Glad I missed THAT.
The only reason Trump and the NRA are against 3D printed weapons is that it might cut into the actual gun industry’s bottom line.
The truth is that it’s far cheaper and easier to buy a real gun and until you can make plastic bullets, getting by a metal detector is going to be an issue for criminals.
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Putin has.