People are elected to office, and they appoint additional people to form our government. You can shake your fist at the government, or you can accept that voters have the ultimate responsibility in the government we have.
Democracy doesn’t give you the best possible government, it only gives you the government you deserve.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” ~ H. L. Mencken
I really need to properly read some Mencken.
Maybe not for long according to this article that just arrived over my newsfeed:
Fingers crossed!
cracks knuckles
“An individual may generally make a firearm for personal use. However, individuals engaged in the business of manufacturing firearms for sale or distribution must be licensed by ATF. Additionally, there are certain restrictions on the making of firearms subject to the National Firearms Act.” - From the ATF’s FAQs
As I understand the laws and regulations, you are permitted to make your own firearms, as long as:
As far as gifting one, or passing it along to one’s descendants, that’s… tricky, and complicated.
I am not a lawyer, and you should consult one if you have serious intent instead of following advice from some yahoo on the interwebbertubes LIKE ME.
The problem is that the slicer software then needs to know what shape (or set of shapes) constitutes a firearm, and then it needs to be able to either error out or refuse to slice the job. that’s a very complicated task. (it’s worse than an image editing program being able to detect that some yahoo scanned in an actual dollar bill and throwing an anti-counterfeiting message on the screen.)
I agree, it is a tough problem, but at least the tough problem is getting attacked by something that can in theory at least try it.
I don’t look forward to all the false positives that some inscrutable neural network spits out though.
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