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2015-05-07 -Land of the Free

Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel

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Posted by DarthVader 2015-05-07 08:39|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The comments from the Feds really show the limited thinking behind their effort.

“We’re facing a situation where anyone—a felon, a terrorist—can open a gun factory in their garage and the weapons they make will be undetectable. It’s stomach-churning,” Schumer said at a news conference in May 2013.

That's cute. You really think a felon and/or terrorist would worry about opening up a factory to make illegal guns? They would smuggle them in, like they did in Texas and then use them. They don't need to make weapons and they sure as fuck WON'T follow the law.

Goose stepping idiots.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-05-07 08:42|| 2015-05-07 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 These people are genuinely clueless. The more I see the more Im thinking we are headed for a revolution of some sort.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-05-07 08:50|| 2015-05-07 08:50|| Front Page Top

#3 That's the joke, Darth. Bureaucrats always assume that you'll follow the law in order to break it.
In my younger hot rod days, I was out street racing, and was chased by a cop. I lost him when I turned the wrong way up a (empty) one way street, pulled in, and parked. He couldn't figure it out.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-05-07 08:52|| 2015-05-07 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 It’s stomach-churning

Sort of like maintaining a super secret email server?

Remember its not a felony when 'our' people do it!

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-05-07 08:53|| 2015-05-07 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 “We’re facing a situation where anyone—a felon, a terrorist—can open a gun factory in their garage and the weapons they make will be undetectable. It’s stomach-churning,” Schumer said at a news conference in May 2013.

What's stomach-churning is Schumer.

Years ago there was a movie made with Jimmy Stewart, I believe. It was titled "Carbine Williams." It was about a guy who killed a deputy and was serving time in prison in NC. While there, he developed what was basically the M1, 30 cal lightweight carbine. Maybe some of you recall the story. It was very interesting.

“A couple of months after Ed Browning's death in May 1939, Winchester hired David Marshall "Carbine" Williams who had begun work on a short-stroke gas piston design while serving a prison sentence at a North Carolina minimum-security work farm.” Carbine Williams.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-07 10:51|| 2015-05-07 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 John Q, Williams didn't kill the guy but was present and in on the job when he was. The guy was killed by a cohort.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-05-07 15:14|| 2015-05-07 15:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression that talented metal workers can make guns in their garages too.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-05-07 15:29|| 2015-05-07 15:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes they can Ebb. You can build your own lower receiver which doesn't need a serial number or a license. So the argument that printing the gun for personal use is different is just flat out wrong. And ignorant.

It is still easier and cheaper for criminals to buy/smuggle stolen guns than to make them.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-05-07 17:28|| 2015-05-07 17:28|| Front Page Top

#9 The more I see the more I'm thinking we are headed for a revolution of some sort.
Yes, Old Spook, but I'm afraid that's the optimistic view.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-05-07 19:38|| 2015-05-07 19:38|| Front Page Top

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