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by thechut 4908 days ago
Downvoted, why does everyone need to bring up the gun issue when somebody talks about the maker revolution? Big gun manufactures have been making guns for a long time. I don't see how people making themselves matters at all.
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The point is the difficulty of enforcing gun control legislation, when a banned 30 round clip can be simply printed in anyone's garage from a easily transferred file. Not entirely germane to the present discussion I think, but not entirely irrelevant either.
Did you perhaps miss this: "Obama told lawmakers that he wanted them to swiftly pass a assault-weapon ban and limit magazines to 10 bullets."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2013/01/16/what-obama...

"If reprap-like machines with strong materials turn out to be cheap and easy, then never mind licensing handguns — we're going to have a problem with home-made crew-served weapons." - Charles Stross

The drivers of new technology aren't always wholesome.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PornDrivesNewTech