America is introducing 3D-printed guns now

[Rev. Rye]

You may be a relatively sane gun owner (if I'm interpreting this correctly), but we're still going to get a shitton of idiots trying to make it, even if it does fuck up. And the NRA will do everything in their power to keep them in legal circulation and stymie any attempts to keep it in check, no matter how sensible it may be.

The trouble will be that it will be difficult to stop. Besides, I thought the NRA was just in it for the money (according to some). This would seem to go against that.

To be honest, I don't have a lot of hope that gun control will make a huge impact, especially with the release of these (evidently functional) 3D printed guns to the public. And I honestly don't think that they're just in it for the money at this point. It certainly plays a part, but with the hard-line against anything sensible relating to gun control, I don't think that's all of it.

Then again, the NRA just released a statement saying that "Many anti-gun politicians and members of the media have wrongly claimed that 3-D printing technology will allow for the production and widespread proliferation of undetectable plastic firearms. Regardless of what a person may be able to publish on the Internet, undetectable plastic guns have been illegal for 30 years. Federal law passed in 1988, crafted with the NRA’s support, makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive an undetectable firearm.”

Well, you got me there.