We all know that Australia has a ton of gun control on the books, and following last year’s terror attack at Bondi Beach, they’re looking at still more. One particular area that has been a focus is so-called ghost guns.
They think 3D printed guns are a massive threat, probably thanks to American media hysteria, and so they stepped in to regulate them. It’s a crime to make your own gun there unless you’re a licensed manufacturer, and in many parts of the country, such as Queensland, even owning the files is a crime.
That should put a stop to “ghost guns,” right?
Well, it would if criminals weren’t, you know, criminals. Instead, privately made firearms in criminal hands are still a thing.
Weird, ain’t it?
The alleged discovery of dozens of 3D-printed handguns on the Gold Coast has led to the arrest of two Brisbane men.
A Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross was stopped at Surfers Paradise on Saturday, and police seized a black plastic container from the boot.
Officers allegedly found 34 Glock-style 3D-printed guns, 800 rounds of nine-millimetre ammunition, handgun magazines, rifle magazines, plastic rifle trigger guard assemblies and a hard drive containing blueprints for printing 3D firearms inside.
Photos supplied by police at the scene show weapons with the distinctive lined textured associated with mass-produced machines widely available at office and electronics stores.
So…the laws are working as intended? No?
I’m absolutely shocked. Gun control is billed as stopping criminals from doing things, but here, criminals are still doing all of the things. They’re breaking so many laws, and it’s like they didn’t even care.
That’s because, of course, criminals don’t care. It’s part of the job description. That means if they think there’s a profit in doing something, preferably without having to do an honest day’s work to make that profit, they’ll give it a shot.
The criminal mind is a disturbingly fascinating subject, but one thing we often see is that these individuals won’t do any work they find boring or otherwise uninteresting, so they’ll do whatever they get a thrill out of as a way to make money. That includes letting a 3D printer do most of the work, maybe throw together a few parts, and then sell them for hundreds of dollars.
Laws against it are irrelevant. They don’t care that it’s illegal. Hell, they might well do it because it’s illegal. It scratches that itch in their psyche that honest work won’t do.
You’re not going to legislate that away.
But what Queensland did, though, was make it even harder for people who don’t suffer from the criminal’s errors of thinking to own a firearm, despite them representing absolutely no threat to literally anyone except, maybe, the criminals themselves.
The laws didn’t stop this in Queensland, where even the files are illegal, but here in the United States, several states have similar laws. Colorado avoided becoming one of them, but it’s still on the Democrats’ agenda, just after Gov. Jared Polis leaves office. They’re convinced it will work better here, even though there’s no chance of that happening.
It would be adorable if it weren’t so damn unfortunate.
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