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My understanding of the 3d printed guns – is that the plastic part is the receiver – the part that holds the trigger assembly and magazine clip. You still need some metal parts of the gun – but these parts are not required to have a serial numbers and have not been traceable in the past. As the serial number has been stamped on the receiver.
The regulation cited to prevent 3d printing of guns is ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulation) – anything on the internet is global in nature, and could not be strictly contained inside the US.
In reality, hand made handguns have been do-able for a number of years. You only need a machine shop, and be half-way competent machinist.
A number of years ago some auto machinists build a working replica of the German A-4 engine. (Used in the V2 ballistic missile) What once was high technology becomes common place.
I suppose it’s possible that the Democrats may take the House but at this point the purpose of the polls is to knock the stuffing out of you and depress turnout on the right. It’s the opposite of a pep talk instead of ‘you can do it’ its a constant refrain of ‘forget it , it’s already lost , don’t waste your time ‘ with the ultimate hope that right leaning people will just give up and leave the field entirely to the left.
Remember we went into 2016 feeling vaguely sick all year after being told for 25 years about the ‘inevitability’ of Hillary and dreading November. The boll weevils of the left have politicized the polls along with everything else in life.
I got burned in 2012, I lost so much money betting on Romney over Obama… The polls are wrong – they’re oversampling democrats! Sigh.
The polls could be wrong – not for nefarious reasons, but because they’re done on the cheap. Meaning they’re national averages – not state by state or even on a district level.
https://www.270towin.com/2018-house-election/
270 to win, has a great interactive map, that lets you look at each district, with average polling (where available) of each race. There are only 29 competitive house races. It looks somewhat reassuring that the national polls are -again- not catching the direction of the country.
I wonder if the average citizen will have a 3D printer in their home even within our lifetimes. More of a concern, seems to me, is that someone will start making and selling kits with one.
This is a good point which we missed. I’m not sure how consciously it is done, though. It is natural to be optimistic about your chances…to think that right and virtue will win out in the end. So polls from the liberal media (do I repeat?) are probably all biased to some degree.
Disney, Marvel, DC Comics are terrified of 3d printers. So much of their revenue comes from the sale of merchandise, that 3d printers could really devastate the ‘action figure’ and memento market.
For example, if you go on thingiverse. ( A sharing site for 3d printer projects ) and search for “Mouse” there are lots of files come up that look like Mickey and Mini, and “Bat” brings up a lot of stuff associated with that man.
I wonder if these media companies are using 3d printed guns as a smoke screen to control 3d printers, so that people will not be able to print off copy protected toys and merchandise items? Conspiracy theory to mull over.
— I am not sure that 3d printers will be “that” big of a thing – Iam sure eventually a lot of people will have them, I just dont see “everyone” having one.
Love that particular conspiracy theory, Occupant! It’s even believable because the relevant powers could easily put their shoulder into this 3D printed gun fear without necessarily having started it…indeed, hard to imagine that they wouldn’t where possible.