The LAPD's analysis was compiled in response to a City Council motion, introduced by Councilmen Paul Koretz and Paul Krekorian, that calls for a new city ordinance banning the possession, sale, purchase, receipt or transportation of such weapons or the "non-serialized, unfinished frames and unfinished receivers" that are used to make them.
The people who are using these guns for street crimes are not going to care that possessing them is also now illegal. But then those people aren't really the target of this law, are they?
No one using improvised guns in street crime is using a 3d printer. They are stealing steel pipe and nails from Home Depot and using them to make slam fire shotguns.
Doubtful, but this law is more regarding 80% receivers and such which truly is just a loophole to the existing law. The 3D printed shit is just caked in with it 1) to appease liberal voters who don't know shit about guns and 2) because that's just where the line happened to be drawn and allowing 3D printed guns would require an explicit exceptions.
We need to stop wasting our time trying to defend loopholes and start actively pushing against the laws they are a loophole for. If we want people to be able to purchase guns without a background check, then we should actively try to repeal laws requiring background checks instead of trying to defend a very specific way for people to get around the law by purchasing an incomplete receiver.
The same goes for pistol braces. We all know that it's just a loophole to be able to legally put a stock on your rifle platform "pistol" without it being classified as an SBR. Instead of spending so much time demanding the ATF honors this loophole with their "opinion" on what constitutes an SBR, we should be proactively trying to get the law repealed that requires SBRs to be tax-stamped at all.
The people who are using these guns for street crimes are not going to care that possessing them is also now illegal. But then those people aren't really the target of this law, are they?
No one using improvised guns in street crime is using a 3d printer. They are stealing steel pipe and nails from Home Depot and using them to make slam fire shotguns.
3D printer goes brrrrrrr.
Get bent, hoplophobes, you are too late.
SHALL. NOT. BE. INFRINGED.
Has a 3d printed firearm been used in any crime (besides possibly the possession of the firearm itself)?
Doubtful, but this law is more regarding 80% receivers and such which truly is just a loophole to the existing law. The 3D printed shit is just caked in with it 1) to appease liberal voters who don't know shit about guns and 2) because that's just where the line happened to be drawn and allowing 3D printed guns would require an explicit exceptions.
We need to stop wasting our time trying to defend loopholes and start actively pushing against the laws they are a loophole for. If we want people to be able to purchase guns without a background check, then we should actively try to repeal laws requiring background checks instead of trying to defend a very specific way for people to get around the law by purchasing an incomplete receiver.
The same goes for pistol braces. We all know that it's just a loophole to be able to legally put a stock on your rifle platform "pistol" without it being classified as an SBR. Instead of spending so much time demanding the ATF honors this loophole with their "opinion" on what constitutes an SBR, we should be proactively trying to get the law repealed that requires SBRs to be tax-stamped at all.
The sort of person who can print and assemble a gun is not the sort of person to use it irresponsibly.
Also heaven forbid people have a way to (slightly) defend their families against escalating government tyranny.
Gun are a God-Given right and should be completely unregulated.
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
Better wear masks until the epidemic is cleared up.