[hackerspaces] printablegun.com has it's 3d printer siezed

[Eric Stein]

Well if this isn't the most unwise thing anyone's done with a 3D printer
so far!

On 10/02/2012 02:08 AM, Matt Joyce wrote:
> http://rommie.digitalcrowbar.net/wordpress/
>
> works pretty well.
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
>> Matt Joyce wrote, On 2012-10-01 18:38:
>>> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:31584
>> 3D printed fire arms are totally tools, tools for trolling. Every time
>> someone replies to a thread like this, a hacker somewhere either gets a
>> plastic keyboard shard splinter stuck under their fingernail,
>> accidentally sews their eyelid to a  samoflange, or runs out of oil for
>> their robot bits.
>>
>> As much as I have respect for cultures outside of the United States
>> having more sensibility and ethics than we do regarding when it is or
>> isn't appropriate to cause bodily harm to another human being, when you
>> have decided that it is the right moment to acquire a piece (If you live
>> in the US and have to Urbandictionary that shit, I've been told Canada
>> has some great health care) regardless of what regulations and laws are
>> instated locally, it happens. It happens so quick and easily it's not
>> even ridiculous. History has proven this time and time again. The lust
>> for power is lubricated by money and guns.
>>
>> It's sad, I know, but some of us actually don't live in your notion of
>> reality.
>>
>> I can't wait for the day when 3D printers can prints guns that actually
>> work reliably and have approximately the same durability as their milled
>> counterparts. You know why? Because there would be Nth times as many of
>> us making much more cooler less idiotic things.
>>
>> Remember kids, no matter how hard you try to buy into this hacker
>> community nonsense, there will always be idiots ready to do the stupid.
>> You can either sit here getting your maker panties in a twist with a
>> drill press because some monkey banged two rocks together and fired a
>> bullet that cause RMS to migrate to Windows, or continue on with hacking
>> the planet like the sexy beasts you are.
>>
>> --
>> Rubin
>> rubin at starset.net
>>
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