Obama administration rumored to be considering semiautomatic ban by decree
An anti-gun owner initiative considered in Washington could lead to massive civil disobedience and a severe domestic crisis,” gun law expert John M. Snyder said today.
“According to confidential information,” he continued, “forces linked with the administration suggest the government classify semiautomatic firearms and multiple capacity ammunition feeding devices as Title 2 National Firearms Act items under the Gun Control Act of 1968.
“Under this scenario, semiautomatics and high capacity magazines could be acquired only with great difficulty and at great expense by America’s estimated 100 million law-abiding firearms owners.”
http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-administration-rumored-to-be-considering-semiautomatic-ban-by-decree
Printing guns is far from only way to bust a 'government monopoly on force'
Yesterday, we took our latest look
at efforts to "print" guns on consumer grade equipment, using CAD
(computer-aided design, or computer-aided drafting) files made freely
available on the internet. These efforts, when developed far enough,
will render "gun-control" irrelevant. What does it matter, after all,
that one cannot buy a prohibited item, if he can simply make it for
himself on a 3-D printer, instead?
3-D printing of firearms on equipment within reach of most people's budgets looks, for now, to be rather short of ready for prime time. That will almost certainly change in the future--and probably the not-too-distant future, at that. In the meantime, though, if for example, President Obama decides, as he is rumored to be considering, to decree that most or all semi-automatic firearms become as difficult to obtain legally as machine guns are today, how is one to equip himself for the civil war that such a measure would surely provoke?
Mike Vanderboegh's Sipsey Street Irregulars observes that CNC (computer numerical control) machine technology is already quite mature, and that maturity means that, as noted in Wikipedia, "the entry price of CNC machines has plummeted." CNC machines, working as they do with metal, as opposed to the plastics that current consumer grade 3-D printers are limited to, offer rather a lot more potential in fabricating life and liberty preserving firepower than can be "printed" at the moment. Mr. Vanderboegh also points readers to a source of free CAD files for making various firearms on CNC machines.
Liberty exists for only as long as the citizenry has the unstoppable power to enforce its will on the government. When the people can acquire the means of enforcing that will only through the relatively small number of manufacturers and the retail chain, the government can at any time it chooses choke off that supply.
Affordable, anonymous home manufacture of firearms is the only sure means of busting the "government monopoly on force." 3-D printing cam potentially play a large part in that. CNC technology can already.
As Mike Vanderboegh asks,"How many CNC machines do you think there are in the United States today?" That's a question any aspiring tyrants in government should probably ask themselves, as well.
See also:
Downloads
http://www.cncguns.com/downloads.html 3-D printing of firearms on equipment within reach of most people's budgets looks, for now, to be rather short of ready for prime time. That will almost certainly change in the future--and probably the not-too-distant future, at that. In the meantime, though, if for example, President Obama decides, as he is rumored to be considering, to decree that most or all semi-automatic firearms become as difficult to obtain legally as machine guns are today, how is one to equip himself for the civil war that such a measure would surely provoke?
Mike Vanderboegh's Sipsey Street Irregulars observes that CNC (computer numerical control) machine technology is already quite mature, and that maturity means that, as noted in Wikipedia, "the entry price of CNC machines has plummeted." CNC machines, working as they do with metal, as opposed to the plastics that current consumer grade 3-D printers are limited to, offer rather a lot more potential in fabricating life and liberty preserving firepower than can be "printed" at the moment. Mr. Vanderboegh also points readers to a source of free CAD files for making various firearms on CNC machines.
Liberty exists for only as long as the citizenry has the unstoppable power to enforce its will on the government. When the people can acquire the means of enforcing that will only through the relatively small number of manufacturers and the retail chain, the government can at any time it chooses choke off that supply.
Affordable, anonymous home manufacture of firearms is the only sure means of busting the "government monopoly on force." 3-D printing cam potentially play a large part in that. CNC technology can already.
As Mike Vanderboegh asks,"How many CNC machines do you think there are in the United States today?" That's a question any aspiring tyrants in government should probably ask themselves, as well.
See also:
- So . . . how do they intend to ban this?
- Vanderboegh: A Handgun Against An Army - Ten Years After
- Incomplete receivers: anti-gun show 'study' does gun rights unintentional favor
- "The Third Wave, CNC, Stereolithography, and the end of gun control."
- Proscribed Printables
- What if the revolution that ends 'gun control' is a technological one?
- Guess he scared the excrement out of somebody. (Or, more likely, the ATF did it for him.)
- Sipsey Street Exclusive: Stratfor's "intelligence" analysis of Gunwalker less than persuasive. ATF's new target: "The Attack of the Eighty Percent Receiver."
- No Bother at All
- Defense Distributed Frequently Asked Questions
- Defense Distributed Manifesto (gotta like that)
- An arms factory in every home: Gun control fights against its inevitable demise
- Michael Bannerman (AKA 'Laci the Dog') doesn't want arresting people to require any broken laws
- CSGV: Learn Law, Learn English and Be Less Violent.
- Why Are Gun Control Advocates So Violent?
- CSGV becoming increasingly frantic over 'printable gun'
- Government will push back against home manufactured guns
- Well, that wasn't optimal. Wouldn't a perfectly good zip gun -- or a Liberator -- work better, easier and surely cheaper?
- Printed gun fails after 6 shots: 'Ma Deuce' wasn't built (or printed) in a day*
- Praxis: More along the lines of "The Futility of Gun Control Laws in America." Free downloadable files for CNC gunsmithing!
Downloads
Here
are the files you can download for free. Currently there are
three different types of files.
First format is the SolidWorks E-drawings. This file format will allow
anybody to open the files no matter what software you have installed.
E-drawings is the most user friendly format since you don't have to have
any special 3-D modeling (CAD) software to look at the files. The
second format is the solid model file in *.igs format. You must have
some sort of 3-D modeling (CAD) software to open this file format. If
you are planning on doing the machining I have, you will need the *.igs
file. But if you just want to open the file to look at it, you can
download the E-drawing.
And the last type of files you
can
download are the blueprints. I
don't make blueprints of the solid models I make. So if you need a
dimension while working on your project, you will have to reference the
model. Later on, I hope to make available other files dealing with my
projects...including sketches, setup sheets, programs, etc.
Tim at dumpsterCNC made the 1911
solidmodel *.iges file. Andy at
Helix60@neo.rr.com
made the VZ58 *.iges file.
My files are free to download, and if you share these files they must remain free!
Download instructions
SolidWorks E-drawings: Select the file you wish to download, click Save. To open the file, simply double click
the *.exe file.
Solid
Model *.igs File: Select the file you wish to download, click Save.
Use your 3-D modeling (CAD) software to open to file after you unzip it.
Blueprints:
Select the file you wish to download, click Save.
Use
Adobe to open the file after you unzip it.
SolidWorks E-drawings
The
files below are complete solid models of
the AR15/M16 and the 1911
firearms. I made the A2 style AR15
model, and Tom tom_eriksson@hotmail.com
made the A1 style AR15 as well as the
1911 model. You can download other
files Tom has made here.
The files below are for
visual reference only.
I
have spent many hours creating
these
solidmodel files. If you find
these files useful and you want to show your support for my website, you
can make a donation. All donations will be directed towards keeping
this website going and also towards new projects. After every project I
complete, I'll upload the files here.
So if you want to show your
support for this website and to keep these file FREE, you can send a
donation through the PayPal link below.
A caveat: said gun must still be constructed well:
Since then, Defense Distributed has experimented with a considerably less ambitious version of the project, "printing" only the lower receiver of an AR-15 rifle, and assembling the rest from commercially available parts. This is still quite significant from the political/legal standpoint, because the lower receiver is itself the part considered to be the "gun," and is thus the only part subject to all the legal hoops the government imposes on exercise of the right that shall not be infringed.
This approach was successfully implemented last summer, but for a gun chambered only for the relatively low-powered .22 rimfire cartridge. Defense Distributed upped the ante considerably, assembling a firearm chambered for the FN 5.7x28mm cartridge, so demonized by anti-gun groups for its supposed "cop killer" powers.
The results of the experiment were . . . somewhat underwhelming. From Defense Distributed's blog (also see sidebar video):
The first string of fire was just one round, which was fired without incident. The weapon fired, extracted/ejected/returned to battery, and the fire control properly rested, meaning the geometry of the axis pin holes is accurate. After examining the receiver for damage and finding none, the magazine was loaded with ten more rounds. On the second string of fire, the receiver seemed to fail on the fifth round – but may have actually failed earlier.This sounds like a setback, but is not much of one, really. Defense Distributed already has some ideas for reinforcing the point of failure, and has also determined that a different plastic raw material in the printer may have been a better, stronger choice.
http://www.examiner.com/article/printed-gun-fails-after-6-shots-ma-deuce-wasn-t-built-or-printed-a-day?CID=obinsite
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