Prohibition Can’t Work

Law student Cody Wilson has made a gun. In his “bedroom”. With a 3D printer.

He defends his project (he has released the source code) and why he did it. But some of the most interesting stuff is in the comments. Like this one:

Cody should be in jail. The second amendment is so that americans can protect themselves. Not so that any criminal, insane person or suicidal one has access to cheap untraceable guns. This gives any tech savvy person the ability to print weapons, and we all know how easy it is to buy ammunition in the states.

He’s only right about one thing, he’s picking the low hanging fruit. This puts cheap weapons in the hands of terrorists, homegrown and foreign.

As if terrorists, the insane, and criminals can’t get their hands on guns now.

We have here another human who confuses words with reality. The kind of people who believe that “prohibited” means unavailable. Wm. Burroughs called such thinking the word virus.


Posted

in

by

Tags:

Comments

2 responses to “Prohibition Can’t Work”

  1. bobmark Avatar
    bobmark

    He did not make a gun, only the lower housing for the trigger and stock attachment. The upper part is what is serial numbered as a firearm.

  2. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    bob,

    I think the point is that in principle he could have done that.