Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Philadelphia Banned the 3D Printing of Guns

AFP Photo/ Robert MacPherson

RT

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has become the first city in the United States to officially ban the use of 3D printers to manufacture firearms, only six months after a Texas-based company published digital blueprints for a homemade handgun.

The 10-member City Council announced last week that its members unanimously approved a first-of-its-kind measure that makes it illegal for anyone within the city to “use a three-dimensional printer to create any firearm, or any piece or part thereof, unless such person possesses a license to manufacture firearms under federal law.”

9 comments:

  1. That's like passing a law that you can't fart within 10 feet of another person. People will just do it anyways. Gotta love dem gun lawz.

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    1. If they want to be lawbreakers. And they can at least be arrested, or fined, so go ahead flaunt the law, that's what you gun loons do best.

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    2. A half century ago down south, there was a lady who decided to break the law by staying in her seat. So don't come at me with that weak lawbreaking nonsense.

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    3. Don't come at me with your racist crap. Guns have had a protected right in the Constitution, blacks did not. But I'm sure you would like it that way, and like the "original intent" bigots want all laws as they were in 1776. .

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  2. Don't ban the automatic printing of guns. Flood the blueprint sites with defective plans. You print the wrong gun, it blows up and kills you. Fun.

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    1. Like all gun ban proponents, you simply don't understand how guns work.

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    2. Your arrogant stupidity again acknowledged. I have a perfectly clear notion of structure. I am also entirely clear that the structure can be devised to be weak and lead to explosions. Which would be good. Anyone who prints a gun should not have one.

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    3. To which you keep providing clear and disturbing evidence that anti gun, pro gun ban people are a violent and deadly lot. To wish death on gun owners even to the point of the idea of faulty plans to make a defective gun to exact injury or death on innocent people.

      POed Lib, you are worse than ANY irresponsible gun owner. Yours is a deliberate assault on people, a deadly one at that. Yet you reveal in the idea. You are one SICK person. Maybe you are the one that needs to be investigated. It is a death threat you have made after all and that's a felony in many states. Your idea is nothing less that terrorism that can result in random death and injury. I believe the FBI needs to look into your response above. I believe they would find your post VERY interesting, to say the least.

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  3. This law is illegitimate, because in Pennsylvania, the state preempts all firearms laws, meaning that no municipal gun law is valid. They have only stood so far in the face of efforts to strike them down in court, because the courts decided that the NRA and others bringing the lawsuits lacked "standing" to sue.

    With a law passed yesterday, though, and that Governor Corbett has already promised to sign, the "standing" issue has disappeared, as will all the municipal gun laws in the state.

    We shall overcome.

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