Monday, April 11, 2022

About "Ghost Guns"

I'm struggling to understand what the Administration is trying to accomplish (other than a Press Conference).  If they ban 80% lowers, people will just 3D print them.  Heck, I've been posting about this for almost a decade, and the technology is way more advanced now.  What are they going to do, criminalize 3D printers?

It seems that it's all a tale told by and for idiots, full of sound and fury but ultimately signifying nothing. 

14 comments:

Eagle said...

They have no solutions for all of the problems they have created. Inflation, an open border, oil prices, food scarcity -- SQUIRREL!!

Blue said...

You think that's bad. Two states in here in Australia have criminalized, or are working on the legislation to do so, owning anything that may be used in the manufacture or repair of firearms. That includes a parts diagram, historical books that may describe how a sten gun was made, and yes, that metal pipe you have in your garage.

It's pretty much a big stick to hit you with for the sake of it. Guilty until proven innocent.

billo said...

They have tried for years to ban the files for 3D printed gun parts, and were successful for a period until 2018 when Daniel Defense won their suit. They will try again.

I've also seen plans for building a die to press out a receiver from sheet metal using a $250 Harbor Freight shop press, as well as plans for bolting or welding one from flat pieces of sheet metal -- though I haven't tried it. And, of course, you can stamp out AK parts more easily.

This is not something they can stop unless they increase intrusion into people's lives magnitudes more than they do now. But... I think that these folk would be happy to do it. In Tibet, the Chinese have all knives microstamped, and chain large knives to tables in bakeries and restaurants in order to keep them from the populace. There are no limits to this.

Ed Bonderenka said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH0sUBktlZk&t=920s

Beans said...

Expect an attack on 3D printed guns and home machine tools. Why? Because the ability to do anything for oneself is highly against the international/national socialist concept.

Peteforester said...

Watch this "rule" encompasses who knows what as it inflates to actual size. This is very Californiaesque... "We outlawed this, so we can outlaw that, and that and yes, that..."

danielbarger said...

What a predictive question....of course they will eventually get around to banning 3D printers. Won't be long before we start hearing talk about licensing lathes and other
machine tools either. ANY flagrant and egregious violation of our rights that you can
imagine has ALREADY been thought about by the commie criminal left.

BobF said...

Let's not lose sight of how long it took to put a document that large together. Consider all that has been going on in the Biden administration during that time. This didn't pop up yesterday, it simply was announced then. The gun has been aimed at us for some time now.

Aesop said...

Pakistani adepts in Peshawar create functional AKs out of 0% parts kits (i.e. raw metal stock), using nothing but Horror Freight-level hand tools, and charcoal braziers. Including barrels.

Chances of banning homemade guns, at this point in history: 0%. EVAR.

Ken said...

It doesn't have to be enforced universally to achieve the desired effect -- it's there to knock down tall poppies, pour encourager les autres. The Miracle of Selective Enforcement is the tyrant's perennial favorite.

Aesop said...

@Ken,

Those bullets fly both ways.

And there's a helluva lot more autres in flyover country than there are sitting on the seats of power.

Jonathan H said...

Several states are banning home building and requiring background checks and serials before making an item into a gun - if you are casting, 3D printing, or several other techniques, a serial number won't survive the process.
They haven't addressed this; they also haven't addresses how to make sure that marking are legitimate - if someone can make a gun from raw materials, they could easily put fake markings on it.

It seems t me that these laws are aimed solely at Glock/ AR 80%s since I doubt the lawmakers know enough to tell the difference.

My biggest hope is that these will be thrown out as unworkable and vague, the way PAs rule was several years ago.

Aesop said...

As if someone smart enough to make a "ghost Glock" isn't bright enough to put the same serial number on 2000 of them, and then claim someone else did that.

"Dang it! The database says this gun is legally registered. But it seems to have been confiscated and destroyed 438 times. Must be a computer error. I just can't figure it out."

Antibubba said...

I'm very curious how far they plan to carry the "parts" argument? Do they think they can serialize barrels and other non-receiver components?