Afghans on dirt floor workshops make effective firearms every day, and the classic designs they have copied for literally hundreds of years were invented long before the PC.
The secret is that manual metalworking is not really difficult, merely tedious. Computer enthusiasts relate to their tech of
choice while tech illiterates (most anti-Second Amendment types are not techies) froth fiercely because two things they don't really understand (firearms tech and how to make them) scare them.
A scrimmage in a Border Station â" A canter down some dark defile â" Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail â" The Crammerâ(TM)s boast, the Squadronâ(TM)s pride, Shot like a rabbit in a ride!
No proposition Euclid wrote, No formulae the text-books know, Will turn the bullet from your coat, Or ward the tulwarâ(TM)s downward blow Strike hard who cares â" shoot straight who can â" The odds are on the cheaper man.
âoeArithmetic on the Frontierâ By Rudyard Kipling
All civilizations fall. All governments fall. The victims are disarmed while the victors rule. See every nation south of the US border for how that works out then stop believing in American exceptionalism. Nobody ever lost by shorting civilization because humans are so savage we require nuclear weapons to maintain international peace (in the so very, very, very brief time since 1945 which should never be considered more than an anomaly certain to end in wars conventional, hybrid or nuclear)
Once the gloves come off one is either armed or a victim. Some of us prefer not to be victims. Self and wife defended ourselves (on separate occasions) by firearm without having to fire a shot, but without weapons would have been easy prey on our rural property. The real world isn't just a few hood rats thinning the herd, it is the enormous number of LAW ABIDING good citizens who are armed and ignored. We will remain armed and part of that self-defense includes spreading knowledge.
Security by obscurity doesn't work but the Streisand effect is highly reliable. Printing weapon parts is interesting because a functioning firearm is a useful benchmark. Weapons geeks are "precision machinery enthusiasts" with a purpose and censorship won't slow us down.
Afghans on dirt-floored workshops... (Score:2)
Afghans on dirt floor workshops make effective firearms every day, and the classic designs they have copied for literally hundreds of years were invented long before the PC.
The secret is that manual metalworking is not really difficult, merely tedious. Computer enthusiasts relate to their tech of
choice while tech illiterates (most anti-Second Amendment types are not techies) froth fiercely because two things they don't really understand (firearms tech and how to make them) scare them.
A scrimmage in a Border Station â"
A canter down some dark defile â"
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail â"
The Crammerâ(TM)s boast, the Squadronâ(TM)s pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride!
No proposition Euclid wrote,
No formulae the text-books know,
Will turn the bullet from your coat,
Or ward the tulwarâ(TM)s downward blow
Strike hard who cares â" shoot straight who can â"
The odds are on the cheaper man.
âoeArithmetic on the Frontierâ By Rudyard Kipling
All civilizations fall. All governments fall. The victims are disarmed while the victors rule. See every nation south of the US border for how that works out then stop believing in American exceptionalism. Nobody ever lost by shorting civilization because humans are so savage we require nuclear weapons to maintain international peace (in the so very, very, very brief time since 1945 which should never be considered more than an anomaly certain to end in wars conventional, hybrid or nuclear)
Once the gloves come off one is either armed or a victim. Some of us prefer not to be victims. Self and wife defended ourselves (on separate occasions) by firearm without having to fire a shot, but without weapons would have been easy prey on our rural property. The real world isn't just a few hood rats thinning the herd, it is the enormous number of LAW ABIDING good citizens who are armed and ignored. We will remain armed and part of that self-defense includes spreading knowledge.
Security by obscurity doesn't work but the Streisand effect is highly reliable. Printing weapon parts is interesting because a functioning firearm is a useful benchmark. Weapons geeks are "precision machinery enthusiasts" with a purpose and censorship won't slow us down.