Sipsey Street Irregulars: Kurt Hofmann: Printing guns is far from only way to bust a 'government monopoly on force'

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Kurt Hofmann: Printing guns is far from only way to bust a 'government monopoly on force'

Liberty exists for only as long as the citizenry has the unstoppable power to enforce its will on the government. When the people can acquire the means of enforcing that will only through the relatively small number of manufacturers and the retail chain, the government can at any time it chooses choke off that supply.

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Anonymous said...: "If it ever comes to the point we have to use the means described above I'm sure that the Government will make sure it has something built into the machine that won't allow it to make firearms."

If someone can figure a way to put that prohibitive "something" in I'm quite sure someone else can figure a way to take said prohibitions back out.

And when the proverbial push comes to the proverbial shove, the firearm shown was manufactured by the thousands many years before CAD/CAM was even a dream in a SciFi story and can therefore be made in similar quantities using a 1940's Bridgeport.; December 6, 2012 at 8:40 PM
SWIFT said...: Government agencies have sent enough signals, both overt and covert, that they are prepping for war. Buy something substantial and a back-up now ! Then, when they make their move for a tyrannical police state, let your enemies be your re-supply system, Viet-Cong style.; December 7, 2012 at 5:24 AM
Judgement Comes said...: The issue in this scenario wouls seem to be ammunition...?

And just how many CNC machines ARE THERE in the United States?; December 7, 2012 at 7:28 AM
Anonymous said...: I have been mugged at gunpoint once and I have had my house burglarized twice.

The ONLY 911 call I will ever make if I catch a home invader in my home will be...

"Come pick up this lifeless lump of shit on the floor of my house."; December 7, 2012 at 7:33 AM
Anonymous said...: A sten can be made with hand tools. As hundreds of them were in Warsaw. If people have the will to fight, no law, no army can disarm them.; December 7, 2012 at 7:49 AM
bitter clinging Texan said...: I think the biggest problem/obstacle for a small outfit woulde be producing a rifled barrel; December 7, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Hefferman said...: You can build a usable lathe with a couple of drills, and basic tools. You can shape the metal with files, vice grips, and screw to adjust height.
You can case harden the metal in a barbegue, with charcoal, and an oil.
You can rearm primers, make powder, and even make projectiles with things bought at a good hardware store, and any china-Mart type store.
You can do most of that legally today.
The knowledge is more important, than the tools.; December 7, 2012 at 2:15 PM
Loren said...: Oh, and as for the CNC part:
http://probotix.com/
Don't just look at the router tables, the 400+ oz-in motors are what you need for making a real mill or lathe CNC.; December 7, 2012 at 4:44 PM
Fenris Badwulf said...: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2624298/sten-mk2-complete-machine-instructions

ah, the sten; December 8, 2012 at 10:58 AM

"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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