Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
Why trace an innocuous object like a printer? Create another black market? Someone with a mill, a lathe and a little skill could make guns in their home as it is if they were determined to.

It's not the tool, it's the sick individual behind the trigger you have to worry about.

We keep non-violent offenders in jail for comparatively heavy sentences for possession and possession with intent, but people who get jailed for violent crimes serve light sentences.

There's a whole bunch of things wrong with society, the availability of firearms of whatever sort isn't the problem. Banning firearms to reduce violent crimes is like putting a bandaid on a severed limb, stepping back, posing for the cameras and saying "there, all better, we fixed the problem!"
Does anyone still make zipguns? Homemade guns! I saw one made from a car antenna and rubber bands, the other made from billet steel- both were ingenious designs and the car antenna model was easy to make.

The steel gun was made from one piece of steel by a guy that worked in a machine shop and unless you knew what you were looking at, you'd never realize it was a gun.

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Now that there is a 'plastic gun' you have to look at all the problems it brings.

Just like a Xerox machine, there will be ways to track who buys it - either through sales/repair records.

Just like the sale of the meds that make meth, you probably will have to show some kind of ID to buy materials to make a gun?

You'll have to register the down loads of the program and how will they be tracked? The same way pirated music is tracked and those laws enforced?


Then you have to look at the viability of making a gun that probably won't last more than a few shots, has to be reloaded after each shot and may blow up in your face.

Although a disposable plastic gun makes certain crimes easier, I would not want to get into a shootout with one.

Something about watching Wile E. Coyote having a gun blow up in face that makes me hesitate.