Tuesday, October 11, 2011

"The Third Wave, CNC, Stereolithography, and the end of gun control."

An outstanding analysis.

Due to forces of technology (CNC controlled machine tools, cheap computation, open source ethics, and social sharing of designs) gun control is utterly dead. It’s a corpse, staggering along, not yet aware that it’s been gut shot, it’s blood pressure has dropped to zero, and its brain (such as it is) is about to die the True Death.

4 comments:

Paul W. Davis said...

Gee Mike,

Finally an article about what I do. Only one thing I would add:

Without being calibrated, that CNC machine tool is very likely to turn out scrap instead of usable parts.

Of course, a Renishaw Ballbar goes a very long way in insuring accuracy. All you need is a PC and/or laptop, the Ballbar, and the software provided by Renishaw.

There are other methods which can be used to check linear positioning accuracy throughout the range of motion.

theirritablearchitect said...

Paul,

I love what you have to say about proper indexing, but (and I hope I'm not coming across as pedantic when I write this) it's ensure, in this instance, not insure.

Anonymous said...

That tech is not quite prime time but the idea is basically correct.

They anti's however being a religion of sorts will just come after ammo instead. The chemicals needed for decent smokeless powder cannot after all easily be made on a home mill.

However I suspect this will fail and frankly its about time.

As far as I am concerned if a person is such a threat to others they cannot be trusted with arms, ever they need to either be in a jail, a mental hospital or in the worse case shot.

Most of the current gun control schemes are stupid, don't help protect anyone and create a raft of bad agencies we don't need.

A better law would read. If you are 18 and not in custody (if violence has been committed in cases of parole, early release, jail, mental health supervision and the like) buy and carry what you like subject to local laws and private owners requests.

This is simple, Constitutional and as the above people are already in State custody or care, creates no new agencies.

It also keeps Felony Creep from disenfranchising gun owners which is a plus.

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure I'd pull the trigger on this without a reeeeaaally long string to run interference: but the moves forward with 3D desktop printing are certainly interesting. RepRap is the opensource, DIY model.

AR-15 Lower Receiver-
www.thingiverse.com/thing:11669

AR-15 Mag Parts-
www.thingiverse.com/thing:11636

If you're unfamiliar with 3D printing here are two videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUB1WgiAFHg

Here's a lower milled out of a plastic cutting board:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3chSzLxPuzU


Technology sure is interesting, it's going to be a bag couple of decades to be in the tyranny business...