Demanding Your Rights, Even 3D Printed, Considered ‘Radical’

With the popularity of the 3D printer, any ability gun control had of working went out the window. Sure, it was never going to work in the first place, but there were some theoretical possibilities where it might.

If people can use a product they got off of Amazon to just make one, though, that ship has set sail. It’s never going to happen.

However, the anti-gunners can’t recognize that they’ve been beaten, not in the political arena, but by technology. If I can make my own gun in my living room, stopping me from buying one isn’t really accomplishing much, now is it?

For me, and probably for many of you, this is vital because it’s the ultimate protection of our rights.

According to CBS News and the NYPD, thinking like this is “radical.”

I mean, they call it that right in their headline: “Radical gun rights movement “3D2A” and 3D printers spark rapid rise in ghost guns, NYPD says.”

A growing online gun rights movement known as “3D2A,” and the accessibility of 3D printers, have sparked an explosive growth of ghost guns in New York City — and could soon spread across the nation, the New York City Police Department said. 

Ghost guns are mostly assembled from kits composed of separate parts ordered online, with no registration information, making them practically untraceable. But over the last year, engineers and hobbyists have upped the ante, and law enforcement has seen an increase in the use of 3D printers to create almost every part of the weapon. The plans are readily available online, with engineers competing with each other to both make ever better designs and to circumvent emerging legislation designed to crack down on ghost guns.

“We see the speed and tension that’s picking up within those communities on the internet and we definitely see this as something that is going to grow into something we’re trying to stay ahead of,” said Courtney Nilan, the NYPD’s ghost gun czar, who said she is paying particularly close attention to the 3D2A movement.

“3D” refers to the 3D printers used to make the guns, and “2A” stands for the Second Amendment. The movement’s adherents include members of the far left, far right and anarchists, and it’s been difficult to pin them down to a specific ideology beyond a push for absolute freedom to make ghost guns, regardless of how powerful.

And honestly, while they find that alarming, I find it kind of beautiful.

After all, if enough people from across the political spectrum felt that way about the Second Amendment, we wouldn’t have any threat to our right to keep and bear arms in the first place. If that were the case, it’s possible no one would have even bothered to create guns for 3D printing at all.

The idea of some radical movement to make your own guns only makes sense if you somehow believe people don’t have a right to own guns without being tracked by the government for doing so. And yes, we know how the feds can and will monitor gun purchases. 

Wanting to make your own guns, as people have been able to do lawfully since the founding of this nation and before, is not radical. Maintaining the status quo isn’t radical. Doing what countless generations have done isn’t radical.

Seeking to destroy what the Second Amendment means by targeting a particular subset of firearms you can’t control is radical, though.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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