Another one of Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun agitprop sites, The Smoking Gun, which is operated by Everytown for Gun Safety, has published a breathless piece on the growing threat they think is posed by home-made guns. TSG marvels that the industry isn’t doing more to clamp down on the growing numbers of people using 3D printing technology to make their own firearms.
The basic premise of all of this is bizarre. I’m not sure what power they think “the gun industry” has over people 3D-printing their own guns at home.
As everyone knows, Everytown is exactly who the gun industry should be listening to when it comes to what’s best for the gun industry. They’ve never had anything but gun makers’ best interests at heart.
It’s also downright hilarious that Everytown uses GLOCK as an example here, the pistols they’re currently trying to sue and ban out of existence.
Again, I’m not clear what power Everytown thinks the gun industry has over people choosing to make their own FGC-9s at home. That design isn’t even based on an existing popular gun model made that’s by a major gun manufacturer, as far as I know.
“And we know this because we are the ones who are gleefully dragging their name through the mud and inflicting as much reputational damage as humanly possible.” – Everytown
The argument here seems to be that the NSSF is failing in its fiduciary duty to its members by not calling for bans on 3D-printed guns. Or something. I’m still not clear what Everytown is demanding they do here. But the idea that Everytown somehow knows better than the NSSF what’s good for the industry and its members is laugh-out-loud hilarious.
A little bit of context…this country has always had a historical tradition of people making their own guns going back to before the Founding. Sure, making guns is easier now with the help of modern technology, but so is writing dumb-ass articles and distributing them widely.
In the olden days, Everytown’s bullshit would have had a much harder time getting out to everyone when speech dissemination was primarily limited to newspapers and such, but that doesn’t mean we should violate their First Amendment rights by banning them from the internet.
So yeah, it looks like Everytown is demanding that the gun industry start calling for banning individuals making their own 3D-printed guns. Because according to their logic, the gun control industry and gun makers share a common interest in that. Allegedly.
Everytown forgets, however, that unlike their operation, which does exactly as Michael Bloomberg commands, the Second Amendment community is not a top-down organization. Efforts to undermine our rights, including when they come from within the industry, aren’t taken lightly.
So please, spare us the “common ground” claims. We’ve all seen what Everytown has in mind given what they encouraged California to pass. Now that AB 2156 is law, it’s basically impossible to make your own gun in the Golden State, even if you’re willing to do everything by the book, get a serial number, etc. There’s literally no avenue to do it without being licensed and registered by the government and Everytown supported AB 2156.
This isn’t fooling anyone. Everytown doesn’t want “common sense” or “common ground.” All they really want is total bans. There’s no compromise or common ground to the had with that.
Kostas Moros is Director of Legal Research and Eduction for the Second Amendment Foundation. This post was adapted by SNW tweets he posted at X.
Why are all comments going to moderation now? Hopefully its ‘defensive’ to get rid of the bogus link-in-user-name-spammers and the rest of the bogus-scammer spammers. [this one might too, so its a kinda test to see if everything is still going to moderation.]
Hey it posted, did not go to moderation. Now if the posts in moderation get out of moderation…
Maybe Everytown can join forces with liberals and the Leftists. Who are trying to stop welfare recipients, from having sez in government housing. Like so many other things people do in the privacy of their own home. Including 3D printing.
Isn’t this sort of like asking the music industry to demand people stop making music unless they’re in the industry?
Or the publishing industry demanding people stop writing unless they’re in the industry?
They’re really grasping at straws with this one.
Yah, that was my immediate thought as well.
“Why are we still allowing people to grill their own hamburgers at home? Sure, people have been preparing their own meals since the founding of this country, but we have companies that do that for you now. Companies that are under government oversight and compliance. For every burger home-grilled, that’s money not going to McDonald’s…”
“Everytown Can’t Figure Out Why the Gun Industry Isn’t Doing Something About 3D Printed Guns”
They are doing something. Its called, supporting the constitutional rights such as the 1st, 2nd, 4th Amendments by not interfering with people exercising those rights.
It seems to me that Justin Wagner (i.e. Everytown patsy, Everytown one of the groups known to produce a lot of biased and bogus and BS crap and steal tax payer dollars and funds the Smoking Gun)…it seems to me that neither you or Everytown has any right to say anything on this subject of “extrem – ists” and “violent misog -ynist and antisemite” or “undermining the government’s ability to enforce any law” especially after supporting (either directly or indirectly) movements and politicians and organizations who advocate for attack and murder of innocent people, push dangerous and damaging drugs and surgeries upon small children as young as 6 years old to convert them to the opposite sex and doom them to a life of disease and medical issues, who advocate for the murder of political opponents and their children, and coddle and embrace violent criminals and rapists and ped -oph -iles, and seek to enslave an ‘illegal alien’ class of people to serve as the new labor force the democrats wanted just like the democrats wanted to keep slavery intact by voting against the 13th Amendment in 1865 and founding the KKK and using Jim Crow laws and then later ‘welfare’. And now especially after left wing trans minions murd -ered children at a church and mur -dered Charlie Kirk and mur- dered a father walking his kid to school and tried to shoot up another school and murd – ered kids and adults at another school and attacked several churches in the last couple of months and left wing minions have formed their own murder cults and train to do it and thousands of left wing minions calling for it all to happen again and again – and then Everytown donating to a democrat politician who wants to murder his political opponents and their children.
It just seems to me Justin Wagner that you and Everytown do not don’t need to be attacking a law abiding industry and a constitutional right pretending to be all morally superior while at the same time, either directly or indirectly, supporting terr -orism, murder, violence, racism, misog -ynist, slavery, and antis -emitism.
[note: any ‘-‘ in words to break apart words and associated spaces are intentional to avoid this weird SNW ghost post thing]
I don’t know of anyone who is printing firearms or even parts. I would guess that this is another case of cherry picking data. Don’t believe anything Bloomberg says.
Wow, so much male bovine excrement to unpack, here!
1. While there is no data of which I am aware, I suspect that there are a non-trivial number of people who are using the availability of 3D printing technology to manufacture guns (Glock clones being prevalent). And some number of these folks are probably selling them, including to criminals. The problem is, the technology exists, has for a while, becomes cheaper and easier all the time, and is also used for MANY things other than printing guns. The files are out there, and there are federal court rulings that the files can’t be “taken down” by LEOs or court rulings. (That pesky 1A!!) That horse is well and truly out of the barn.
2. While the traditional beef with 3D printed guns was that their quality, longevity, and accuracy were not up to manufacturer standards, which is still true, but not to the same extent. The current versions are still not AS good, but they’re getting closer. I’ve tried several from friends at the range, and there has been a noticeable improvement in quality from the early versions.
3. The main reason non-criminal gun owners have flirted with 3D printing, is the labyrinth that jackasses like Everytown, and politicians like Gavin Newscum (also a major jackass) have built. Up until the courts finally put a stake in the heart of that nonsense (which Newscum’s KKKalifornia is still widely ignoring), you actually needed to do a background check to buy ammunition, and were limited to some absurdly low number of rounds per month. KKKalifornia has now made it near-impossible to buy manufacturer-produced parts to complete a 3D printed gun. Yet the gun-grabbers tear their hair and lament over the rise of 3D guns, and want to know “how can we stop this?”. Look in the damn mirror, and stop doing the stoopid crap you’ve been doing that caused the problem to begin with.
4. ‘You can’t stop the signal.’ Anyone with a modicum of ability and knowledge can make a functional firearm from a broad variety of available materials. Just admit that their actual goal is to try to prevent ANYONE from acquiring firearms, and the results of every legislative initiative demonstrates that. Law-abiding gun owners commonly jump through the (increasingly onerous) hoops . . . because they are law-abiding. Criminals do not (80%+ of ‘crime guns’ recovered by LEOs were obtained illegally). Criminals will get guns, just like criminals will get drugs, prostitutes, and commit crime, despite all those things being illegal.
Pro tip: Criminals don’t obey laws, that’s kind of the definition of the term ‘criminal’. *SMDH*
Smith & Wesson makes more guns in a day than most homebuilders make in their lives. Why would they care? They wouldn’t even notice. It makes no difference to S&W if someone built their own gun, bought from a competitor, or just didn’t buy one. Everytown should be asked why they would think Ford would care about someone building a Cobra kit car in their garage.