Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Gun Control Is Still Dead: Paloma Heindorff on the Future of the Homemade Firearm Movement" video.

@TheBrokenLife exactly. Even regular people are out of touch with what is possible. People don't understand that designs like the aforementioned Luty SMG only take a trip to the hardware store - literally, because a drill press angle grinder and a set of files will do wonders. We're talking about basic tools and hand-fitting, not thousandth of an inch precision. But people will act like it takes a fully stocked machine shop. Hell, I have seen forum posts of people experimenting with homemade nitrocellulose and recreating early smokeless powder, testing the result by actually loading it into cartridges and measuring velocities. But just the other day I got a self-titled "Master Loader" claiming it is impossible to reload ammo without access to commercial reloading supplies. People actually think 3D printing is just a matter of pushing a button, so let's make 3D printed gun designs and show them what they refused to see.
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@Gnynt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D43ZeYu9dnM https://homemadeguns.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/homemaderiflingmachine-improguns.jpg?w=625&h=474 Please do some research before posting, I like to do it so I end up catching mistakes I would have ended up posting for everyone to see and embarass myself. A little google-fu would have shown you multiple ways people have devised to make rifling at home with hand tools.
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If they reference the codes. You can talk about defcad on youtube and post videos about them, but you can't link to their files. Many gun channels linked in the description to online gun shops and due to youtube's rules many videos got taken down and entire channels killed because of the several strikes in quick succession. So yeah, if youtube won't allow you to link to legitimate gun shops that legally have to deal though FFLs, of course they're not going to allow Reason to link to their file repository.
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@blshouse proliferation of 3d printers didn't change much, though. If anything, the only thing that changed is the fact that you can go to resources like Forgotten Weapons or watch youtube videos of that videogame Gun Disassembly and figure out how guns work and get design ideas from inspiration rather than having to reinvent the wheel yourself.
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@b.griffin317 Rifling isn't even that difficult, youtube has videos of people grinding rifling buttons and driving them through DOM tubing with hydraulic jacks. Corrosive ammo doesn't really matter. For most of the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th century you either had the choice of mercury based primers or corrosive primers for military ammo because those were the only ones that could the stockpiled and still work reliably. Since mercury primers weakened brass the vast majority of military forces picked corrosive. The salts are water soluble, take a water bottle or canteen and dump water into the internals. Nitrocellulose can literally be manufactured from cotton. No need to waste time on black powder.
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@stefanstojiljkovic7028 you do realize that in the UK criminals rebarrel Baikal blank firing guns, right? You do realize there's the R9-Arms Corp, a machine pistol made in the Eastern Europe and sold to criminals, right?
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You can't set off a thermonuclear warhead without a normal fission primary, and you can't have a fission weapons program without advertising your activity to any intelligence agency in the world. The information behind the fission program is ironically more readily available. So this security through obscurity argument doesn't even make sense. There would be literally no harm done to the world by releasing the information regarding the filler.
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Ahead of what? The files are all over the internet, and websites only started restricting their sharing in 2018, almost 6 years after Cody started this.
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Sure, what happens when one day you can't buy it? I've been learning and studying everything from CNC operation to industrial automation. What have you been doing to preserve the gun you bought when you need it fixed but you're not allowed to buy replacement parts?
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@b.griffin317 "proper metal grain structues that can only be made in forges by people with specialist skills and equipment" - yeah... no. There's literally hundreds of examples in both history and just the internet itself of people making guns without forges or specialized equipment. Why the fuck would you need a forge? Forging is only suitable for mass production.
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