(July 31, 2018 at 1:33 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: On the other hand, this could be beneficial. The government could hack the 3D gun printing plans resulting in people printing off guns that don't work.
I'm wondering whether it could be beneficial in an entirely different way as the technology develops and becomes cheaper. Only someone with criminal intent would need to print off one of these guns right now, but maybe in 10 years time it will become far more commonplace.
It all comes down to money. Lobby groups such as the NRA are out to protect the profits of a particular industry. America continues to suffer a gun problem because all the solutions to it so far hurt the profits of the gun industry.
But now there are 3D printed guns and the industry cannot profit from it. This makes the gun problem worse with little benefit to anyone. This means more pressure to sort out the gun problem without the increased pressure from the guns industry to resist it. And any solution to 3D printed guns will have to also apply to manufactured guns as well.
