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For US citizens I don't see how printing them is significantly
different than now.  It's just a different manufacturing process.  IF
assault weapons are illegal they are illegal.  Making something
illegal has never stopped people from making/having stuff.  This might
make it a little easier in some ways to "be illegal"  but it seems
likely that

1 - not very many people will shell out the cash for the printer and
it would be cheaper to buy a real gun.
2 - I suspect any gun "printed" like this will not be very durable.

If you start looking at "rebels" in countries that have hobnail boots
then it gets a lot more interesting.  The UN just voted for that
stupid "small arms" control treaty.  Which is really just eyewash for
all those gvt's wanting to make sure their citizens are disarmed. This
will facilitate arming them.  Of course, many of those countries will
probably make buying these printers very difficult without gvt
approval.  So will it be easier in those countries to figure out a way
to buy one of these printers or will it be easier to just go buy a box
of real guns.

Then there is the acquisition of ammo.  That can't be printed (anytime
soon). Those same countries will also be watching ammo so if you have
a way to get around that problem you probably have a way to get around
the problem of getting real guns too.


On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:56:18 +0200, "Obama Tells Military To Fire On
American Citizens" <impeach_obama@yahoo.com> wrote:

>National Review  investigates this question with a profile on 
>"Defense Distributed," a company that can create guns using a 3-
>D printer.
>
>Cody Wilson cheerfully describes himself as a crypto-anarchist. 
>�Crypto� modifies �anarchist� in the sense not that it obscures 
>it but that it points to a means: cryptology, code, 
>communication, and technology as the last, best hope for a 
>radical freedom. You meet a few anarchists, crypto and 
>otherwise, hanging around on the fjords and isthmuses of the 
>conservative continent, and like most of them, Cody is young, 
>quick, bright, and vaguely terrifying. Or rather, what�s 
>terrifying isn�t the dude � he�s quite pleasant � but the 
>simultaneous casualness and precision with which he lays out the 
>plots and provocations, transformations and transgressions he 
>has planned through his Texas-based group Defense Distributed 
>(DD).
>
>The main thing Cody has planned is: Cody�s building a gun. Not 
>just building, but fabricating. Not just fabricating, but 
>digitally fabricating. The design is crowd-sourced. The 
>blueprints are freely shared. And with increasingly available 
>technologies, the product could conceivably be manufactured 
>anywhere... Keep reading at National Review
>
>Below is video that demonstrates the technology in the field:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q10Jz2qIo
>g8
>
>http://nation.foxnews.com/guns/2013/01/25/how-do-you-ban-assault-
>weapons-when-you-can-print-them