I would link an article on this but it's really hard to find one free of bias. The courts ruled that posting schematics to 3D print guns online is protected by free speech. At the current moment very few people have access to 3D printers but this could become a common household item in the future. Other potential for this is organizations like cartels, that have a lot of money could begin printing their own guns. How do you feel about the idea of people printing "ghost" guns (no serial numbers, untraceable, no background check)? Do you think this would have any substantial effect whatsoever ok the black market for guns?
I haven't decided how I feel about this yet. My views on the overall gun debate are as follows. I don't really care about the legal status of guns. If you want gun control it's absolutely pointless to do anything short of banning all guns as handguns account for over 80% of all gun deaths, so anything else would have little to no effect. If guns are legal I think we should expand what weapons you can have. If guns are legal, as long as you accept that gun deaths will happen, the same as how we accept car crash deaths, then I think it's fair. I'd like to reiterate I don't actually really care about gun laws one way or the other, but I think the topic of 3D printed guns can make for interesting conversation.
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What we need is the societal change, that makes the idea of buying/creating/using weapons strongly unappealing to people. This is the case in Japan, for example, where the cultivation of "peace and prosperity" that arose from the defeat in the World War and the guilt people felt over their country's role in that war - lead to a very strong societal pacifism. Aside from major cities with some organized crime and small sub-cultures propagating the dismissal of the mainstream societal value, Japan has almost zero crime and violence, and the incidents that do happen almost exclusive result from unaddressed mental illnesses. Granted, they do have pretty strict laws, but nothing that, in theory, prevents one from buying a pistol on the black market and going on a killing spree - yet it never happens.
This is the long-term solution to the problem. When every child can quickly print a few grenades to play with, we will need something more than law enforcement - we will need culture, morals and responsibility.
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There's a video from a while back of a guy who 3d printed an all metal handgun. Now mind you this printer was for industrial use, multi-million dollar specialized setup, but he did it to prove he could. He said it wouldn't be cost effective to make.....yet. As better and strong materials are developed they will become more readily available. 3d printers are constantly dropping in price and are getting better. The genie is out, time to deal with the real issue, people.
have you seen the hand made guns from Philippines? check those videos out.
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They do have organized crime in major cities such as Tokyo or Osaka. But even that crime has a very specific Japanese vibe to it. The arguably largest criminal group in Japan, Yakuza, rarely even commits outright crimes; mostly it does charity and maintains legal businesses in order to gain influence.
I think they can easily survive the legality of 3d-printed guns, and later tanks and nuclear bombs. Can Americans, British or most other Western societies? Probably, but some reassessment of values is still needed for this development to not noticeably impact people's safety. And something like Russia or India - well...
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