The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home

Post by mmcwilliams » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 4:55 PM UTC

skrowl wrote: post #56

jonifico wrote: post #53

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Totally agree. Particularly since US citizens are so obsessed with guns and violence. I mean, look at all the shootings and massacres happening, by people of all ages and races, it's crazy! Couldn't stand living in a society like that where everyone's allowed and legally motivated to keep guns.

All of the mass shootings in the US have occurred in "gun free zones" (for example schools) where law-abiding people can't legally bring guns. Regardless of what your TV told you, non-law-enforcement people in the US can't legally walk into a school with a gun. As it turns out, criminals don't really care where they can legally bring guns and will happily walk past a "NO GUNS ALLOWED HERE!" sign. When gun grabbing le…

Post by barrkel » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 4:59 PM UTC

ctdonath wrote: post #73

tjradcliffe wrote: post #65

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Your comment implies that there are two classes of people, "gun owners who understand firearms" and "non-gun owners who do not understand firearms". A casual glance at the deplorable accidental and unintentional discharge rates in the US statistics should make it immediately clear that gun ownership and understanding firearms have absolutely nothing to do with each other. I say this as a non-gun-owner who was taught…

A casual glance at the deplorable accidental and unintentional discharge rates in the US statistics should make it immediately clear that ...there isn't a substantial problem therewith. Not zero, of course, but by your line of reasoning cars should be outlawed immediately because of the actual accidental & unintentional harm rates therewith ... and the same issue with guns being orders of magnitude less. The problem…

Post by briandh » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 5:04 PM UTC

stevemck wrote: post #51

Guns scare the shit out of me. When I grew up in Australia where there is basically no guns. I used to walk on streets even on a drunken Friday / Saturday night without fear. I moved to the US a few years ago and since then every corner I turn, I see people and I worry. I don't worry about getting robbed. No. I worry about a gun fight somewhere and a stray bullet hits me. I worry that someone drunk might hold me at g…

Post by stan_rogers » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

exDM69 wrote: post #40

buro9 wrote: post #14

This looks awesome. For $1,200 you could set up as a company making little things for others, earn enough to pay for the machine and then benefit from it yourself. What I would do with such a machine is to solve the problem of bike accessories and mounts. i.e. every light has a different mount, as do GPS devices, and cameras, and bag attachments. Yet you could manufacture some common clamp, and then adaptors for each…

This isn't a general purpose CNC milling machine. If you read the whole article, this is specifically designed to mill and drill the lower receivers of AR15, from a piece of aluminum stock called the "80 percent stock", which is a non-functional metal part that is only missing a few holes. If you have grand ideas about bike accessories and other metal objects, you can buy a proper CNC mill which is a bit more expensi…

Post by declan » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC

hga wrote: post #48

meepmorp wrote: post #43

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> ... the Constitution, which makes gun manufacturing subject to laws and regulations, but not bans in the US. I don't know if this is actually true. The right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed by the second amendment, but its a bit of a stretch to say that includes manufacturing of arms.

So the government could ban the manufacture and importation of printers, printer parts, radio and TV transmitters, etc. etc., indirectly negating the rights of free speech and the press? Nope, that's not how it works.