Despite politicians transparent attempts to gin up fear, there exists no legal loophole where 3D printed firearms are treated any differently under the law than firearms manufactured by other means.
Another one of Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun agitprop sites, The Smoking Gun, which is operated by Everytown for Gun Safety, has
Admins of the groups are well aware they’re being monitored. Kelly suspects about half of the various groups of which he’s either an admin or a moderator are cops.
The Everytown summit demonstrates that gun control activists are perfectly willing to demolish other rights in their attempts to achieve not just a gun-free America, but an America where every precursor to a gun is tightly controlled.
Cops say these gun aficionados are sharing their own designs on these pages, not necessarily because they are dangerous trigger-pullers themselves, but because they are looking for glory from their peers.
“This all falls within the same movement, which is essentially trying to push the boundaries of privately manufactured firearms,” he says. “The main impact here is the erosion of state control on firearms.”
Many companies are active in the nascent 3D-printing industry, and it may prove difficult to achieve industry-wide reform. Legislation may be necessary to ensure that there are no printers on the market that can be utilized to produce DIY guns.
Mr. Andersson has no formal engineering education and was trained as a seaman. But during the pandemic, he spent time on an internet forum dedicated to 3D gun design and mostly used by Americans, fertile ground for his self-education.
There are models of gun that have come out in the last few years, these almost fully 3D-printed semi-automatic rifles, that truly look like something out of science fiction that are really powerful and really accurate.
In March, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg sent letters to 3D printing companies urging them to implement stronger safeguards to prevent the creation of such weapons. His office is also in discussions with platforms that host blueprint files to address related concerns.
