The gun control lobby want to ban all guns in private hands so that only the oppressive state apparatus, as one social theorist once described it, have them, so that if you set out of line, then splat! Ok, but will it work if someone is really determined to get a gun? Of course it would be against the law, but that has not stopped Melbourne from being awash with illegal guns:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/government-toughens-gun-laws-in-response-to-shootings-and-gangs-arms-race-20151027-gkk18x.html
The gun banners need to be thinking about how the high tech revolution may be making them, like most of us, obsolete:
https://gellerreport.com/2018/07/lott-guns-fool.html/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/business/downloadable-gun-allowed-alarming-activists.html
“Learning to make a so-called ghost gun — an untraceable, unregistered firearm without a serial number — could soon become much easier. The United States last month agreed to allow a Texas man to distribute online instruction manuals for a pistol that could be made by anyone with access to a 3-D printer. The man, Cody Wilson, had sued the governmentin 2015 after the State Department forced him to take down the instructions because they violated export laws. Mr. Wilson, who is well known in anarchist and gun-rights communities, complained that his right to free speech was being stifled and that he was sharing computer code, not actual guns. The case was settled on June 29, and Mr. Wilson gave The New York Times a copy of the agreement this week. The settlement states that 3-D printing tutorials are approved “for public release (i.e. unlimited distribution) in any form.”
The government also agreed to pay nearly $40,000 of Mr. Wilson’s legal fees. The willingness to resolve the case — after the government had won some lower court judgments — has raised alarms among gun-control advocates, who said it would make it easier for felons and others to get firearms. Some critics said it suggested close ties between the Trump administration and gun-ownership advocates, this week filing requests for documents that might explain why the government agreed to settle. The administration “capitulated in a case it had won at every step of the way,” said J. Adam Skaggs, the chief counsel for the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. “This isn’t a case where the underlying facts of the law changed. The only thing that changed was the administration.”
Mr. Wilson’s organization, Defense Distributed, will repost its online guides on Aug. 1, when “the age of the downloadable gun formally begins,” according to its website. The files will include plans to make a variety of firearms using 3-D printers, including for AR-15-style rifles, which have been used in several mass shootings.”
Now this is all quite ILLEGAL in Australia, and no law abiding citizen should even go to the website, let alone download plans or build such monstrosities. The disclaimer cannot be clearer. But, my point is that even if criminals do not get illegal guns, they will simply make them, real easy by 3D printing. They are after all, criminals who defy the law. And, as for terrorists, we do not even need to begin a discussion about them, for they probably already have their weapons, or can readily get them.
So, gun control just got impossible. The situation will be much more difficult to control than the drug problem, which liberals accept as unsolvable (hence their liberal attitude of liberalising drug laws, because they love drugs, but hate phallic symbols of toxic masculinity such as guns). Whatever will the gun banners do? Ban the internet? Maybe.