Sipsey Street Irregulars: "The Third Wave, CNC, Stereolithography, and the end of gun control."

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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

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.; October 11, 2011 at 7:42 AM
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.; October 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM
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.; October 11, 2011 at 4:57 PM
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...; October 11, 2011 at 5:23 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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

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