Philly Councilman Kenyatta Johnson.
The Philadelphia City Council last week unanimously approved an ordinance banning residents from manufacturing 3-D printed guns.
While guns manufactured from 3-D printers do not pose a significant threat to public safety, mainly because (a) they’re cost prohibitive, one has to first purchase a 3-D printer which will run no less than $1,500, and then buy materials to make one and (b) they’re fragile, the average lifespan of a 3-D printed gun is only a handful of rounds, the council felt it necessary to get ahead of the curve, so to speak.
‘It’s all pre-emptive,’ a spokesman for councilman Kenyatta Johnson, who sponsored the ordinance, toldPhilly Magazine. ‘It’s just based upon Internet stuff out there.’
By “Internet stuff” one can assume he is referring to “The Liberator,” the 3-D printable gun that was designed by Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed, a nonprofit, pro-Second Amendment civil liberty group based in Texas.
Yet another bunch of politicians who have decided that since they can't look smart, they'd better look busy.
ReplyDeleteSo if I'm understanding this right, if you manufacture legally, the ordinance doesn't apply, but it just applies to manufacture of illegal firearms. Having this image of the criminal not being scared of the ATF, but deciding not to because he would have the Philly PD after them.
ReplyDeleteI suppose they didn't get the memo either about cities not being allowed their own ordinances.
DeleteThe U.S. government needs to allow ex post facto prosecutions to punish 3D small arms manufacturers who have operated against the public (or the Party) interest. Legislative action serves to be little more than an inane and hollow decree without retroactive liability to deter public insubordination.
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