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Is the weapon lobby NRA against 3D-printed weapons?
| The NRA is a fucking scam, they just want supremacy, nothing more nothing less.
| If they actually wanted improved gun rights they'd lobby for universal healthcare to make sure mentally unstable people can't get one.
They profit off every mass shooting as they fear monger about "libs takin ar gunns." And people stock up on guns and ammo.
| >>378013 And actual regulation and background checks. Some of the gun shops in the south are unreal, they just check your driver's license and some papers and that's it.
| Isn’t the problem with self printed guns is that they are unregistered, a lot more cheaper and any maniac with a 3D printer can make one?
| >>378013
I've said this on /new/ at least four times now, but contrary to popular perception the mentally ill are statistically much less likely to perpetrate violent crime.
They are, however, far more likely to be the victims of violent crime. So yeah, let's take away their right to own anything they might use to defend themselves.
| >>378550
You missed the point.
This is the NRAs talking point.
"Only the mentally ill do mass shootings"
So taking that
If that is true and they cared about gun rights why would they not want mental background checks to be easily accessable and used.
They have no real principles they care about what makes them money
| >>378024
Because those documents required a background check to obtain. In some states you can just prove you've passed one recently.
>>378566
That is most certainly not just the NRA's talking point, ask anyone on the street & most of them will tell you improved mental health would decrease gun violence.
I won't argue that the NRA isn't just a lobby out for profit like any other. Honestly though, 3D printed weapons aren't very safe or durable, if anything I'd think they're...
| worried that cheapo ABS guns exploding in peoples' hands will put a dent in their business because of the bad press around firearms, & around them if they hadn't inoculated themselves by discouraging the trend.
| >>378433
Actually what's the point of weapon registration in the USA? I mean any idiot can have (and has) a weapon.
| >>378930
So they know the name attached to a gun. The ballistics matches it to a type and narrows down. You find whose related to the person that owns the gun type and the area police need to search is incredibly narrowed
| It's not always about money. I couldn't care less about the economics of it. I'm actually worried about these 3D printed guns. Now anyone that wants to commit a crime can do so with an easily obtainable unregistered gun.
I think California has the right idea of not banning them, but requiring people that want to make them to have the parts serialized, otherwise it's illegal. If it was all about the money, which is a very cynical view, California would just straight ban them.
| Mentally ill or not, this enables any person that want to commit a crime to do so more easily which is what I think is the point of all this controversy. Though, given I don't know if 3D printers are even all that popular yet and I don't know whether or not there are many people that have them, but I just don't like the idea of easily produced unregistered guns
| Why do so many people forget that a person doesnt even need a printer themselves, they just need to be supplied the untraceable gun from someone to go commit whatever murder. Someone with a printer cpuld just set up a racket hocking the things on the street ans they would spread all over
| Have you ever seen a 3D printed gun firing? They're fucking shitty and will break apart quickly. It's cheaper to buy a .22 then to buy an "alright" 3D printer + filament. Anyone that is against 3D models and the freedom of information in general. Is more than likely someone who is too authoritarian for their own good/just read the communist manifesto and thinks they're hip.
| >>380255
Black markets for guns are thriving. Until you stop that why bother hobbyists who want to print a gun?
| Jamal: Nah cuz, I don't want that $300 street gun, Imma get me a $1000 3d printer and get me a gun a that dies after one shot.
| >>380872
Joe: Howdy, I'm going buy that 1000€ 3D-printer. Then I'll sell Jamal and all his friends lots of guns that die after one shot for a few bucks and with low risk for me.
| >>381168
I'd say this would more likely be for political assassinations.
Of course still stupid because a destroyed 3D printed gun shows it was fired
| >>61bf2c
>using a derringer that needs to be at contact range with the concealability of a Motorola 8800x
Knife is better, and doesn't go bang... Not that I'd know anything about this kind of thing.
| >>381492 then you'd have to get close enough to physically touch thr target, and good luck with that considering the level of security high profile assassination targets have.
Might as well just use good old fashion poison.
| I think there is plenty of room for discussion on this matter, and I do think that some regulation in the sense of, relating a gun to a owner is in place but, with guns or not if someone wants to do some shady shit they will, from illegal guns to knife attacks, or even the truck attacks at europe, homemade bombs...and so on, people kill people, they will just use whatever they can.
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| What happned all the "self-defence", "liberty" and "constitutional rights" talking of the NRA and their US president?
Could it be that they fear about economical concurrence by self-printed weapons? Are they possibly just fucking capitalist hypocrites, for whom weapons are only are a good thing, as long white supremacist maniacs can murder liberals and niggers?