Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Inevitable Death of Gun Control: Cody Wilson and the Future of Untraceable Homemade Firearms" video.

  1. People are making mandrels out of wood/3d printing them with notches for copper wire, to use in a process called electrochemical machining. Basically you leave salt water running through the barrel, the mandrel covers the surface you want to leave intact and the metal in proximity to copper wire is corroded away. Since the mandrel is notched with helical patterns the barrel comes out rifled.
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  2. +Eric Stamps a serial number isn't a GPS beacon. If you commit a string of murders with a serialized gun and then destroy the gun (or get rid of it in a way that it's never found) all the cops can do is confirm that all the murders were committed with the same gun (if the ballistic fingerprinting goes right, and it's honestly an unreliable science because even cleaning the bore will alter the striations put on the bullets, bullets often are recovered too mangled to compare, etc). If you throw it into a storm drain and cops find it 2 weeks later they will trace it to whoever purchased it from a FFL. The first owner might have reported it stolen, or he might have sold it legally in a private sale and stolen then, etc. so you end up not knowing who used it to kill people, who threw it out, etc. Recovering bullets from crime scenes won't give you the serial number of a gun. Even if you have the serial number of the gun it doesn't give you it's location or who owns it. Tracking guns doesn't work the way you think it does.
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  3. +Simon Murray that's how they do it in Europe, barrels and bolts are considered firearm parts, but in many countries the bolt carrier, receiver etc can be sold as "free parts" (I assume in some places all gun parts could be regulated). But there's a catch. In the US it's easy to mill AR receivers and bend CETME/HK or AK flats - but there's a lot of guns which people don't have the schematics/dimensions for. Pressure bearing parts are not hard to design (and honestly you can just replicate the original barrel profile with quality steel because the original design was rated for proof loads and thus will hold more pressure than generated by a normal round) and now people have come up with ECM rifling at home, so if you have all the parts except bolt and barrel, those are easy to reverse engineer just from looking at the parts that interface with them and taking measurements.
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  4. Bro, what server? You can host files on your own damned computer. >"who now have the right to intercept and inspect any and all traffic on their system" Wait, back the fuck up. First of all, the government has been spying on our communications without a warrant so you hinging this on "net neutrality" doesn't make any fucking sense. Second, ISPs has always snitched on child porn and many times would let copyright holders know that you were pirating stuff, so this concept that they never checked what you were doing online before 2012 doesn't make any sense either. Third, if you think you should be able to force a company to send through their pipes shit they don't agree with then you might as well vote Gary "Bake That Cake" Johnson to force Jews to service Neo Nazis. Fourth there's still freaking encryption, physical data devices, etc. if Ghost Gunner is driven offline they can just burn the data into CDs and send it to people for a fee.
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  5. +Mark D (EDIT: you made a statement that seemed to contradict what I said but you might have directed it at OP)
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  6. +Eric Stamps you're essentially proving my point. Also I didn't talk about CSI stuff being used in trials, did I? I just admitted that there's the possibility of ballistic matching being able to paint a picture of what a gun has been up to, but even then ballistic matching is highly subjective and not an exact science. Markings left by a gun change upon wear.
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  7. +Ryder Lee the guns will not be cheaper though. Stolen guns are always cheaper because it only cost you effort to steal one so you can sell it for 300 bucks, now with the Ghost Gunner you'll have to go around and shop for parts. Anyone wanting to make a profit will have to charge above street price for these guns. So what if they're "untraceable"? First of all, they try to eliminate the serial numbers off guns, and when the gun is recovered it's "traced" back to the last legal owner who probably reported it stolen anyway. What does it matter if it's "traceable" if it's going to be traced to someone else anyway? A trace isn't a GPS beacon, it's just looking at previous owners and checking if it was involved in crimes. If they catch you with an unserialized firearm that fires bullets that match bullets fired in robberies and murders you're fucked even if there's no serial number.
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  8. +Mike D host the data encrypted so that they don't even know what they're hosting. Also, ever heard of P2P? Host it on a computer, seed.
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