Comments by "deadCXAP" (@deadcxap755) on "VICE News" channel.

Psychologically, it is much more difficult to hit a person with something while standing next to him than to shoot from a distance of even 30 meters. Plus the question of personal strength - to stick even a sharp knife into a piece of meat with bones, you need much more force than to pull the trigger.
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And now you don’t need the desire to learn, expensive equipment, development of drawings, hours of metal processing - you just buy a printer for $400 and print, at most, work with a file on plastic for a couple of hours.
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So you come home, print out a couple of spare parts and the whole registration becomes a piece of toilet paper?
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Dude, you're behind the times. There is bambo lab, which does not need to be calibrated. There are a bunch of printers released this year that are 2-3 times cheaper, calibration which takes an hour in the evening - running a couple of tests for temperature, PA, flow, dimensions. Printing speed has also increased over the last couple of years to truly cosmic values; what 10 years ago took 16 hours on poor crafts (like the anet printer shown in the film) can now be done 4-5 times faster. Similarly with plastics - carbon-filled or steel-filled composites cost $20 per kilogram, and you don’t need to understand their chemical or physical properties - everything is written on the manufacturer’s website in a language that is understandable even for a schoolchild. If you don’t have access to an official purchase of weapons, the cost of a printer + plastic + FREE software for working with all this will be much cheaper. If you take the most easy-to-use bambu lab P1P + a couple of kilograms of composite plastic, you can make a TEN OF GUNS. For 700-800 dollars. Where can you buy 10 pistols illegally for that kind of money?)))
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Guns are literally meant for violence ONLY. The rest of its uses are nothing more than side ways to use it.
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In addition to the serial number, the purchased weapon has a manufacturer who, before putting the weapon in the store, shot it and received photographs of marks from the grooves of the barrel on the bullet and marks from the firing pin on the cartridge case - so often filing off the number does not provide any anonymity.
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@HowHighImHalfBaked and these people are openly turning a blind eye to the fact that such weapons have a lot of problems with legality and accessibility for criminals. Like “since we only use it for fun, then everyone else will do the same.” Idiots.
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Only because he is an ordinary journalist who needed a reason to participate in the competition. There were enough people there who made their weapons completely on their own, without buying ready-made spare parts, but only blanks in the form of rods or tubes.
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 @MikeEdwards-j9g There were literally several FULLY AUTOMATIC machines shown. And when he showed the video to the ATF, he even emphasized this.
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This could have been done on purpose to confuse idiots who want to repeat it.
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The issue is accessibility. If you live in a state where there is no free circulation of weapons, and you want to take revenge on the offender, but you are a simple person who does not have connections in the illegal world to buy something that shoots - now you can easily make it yourself. The problem with shooting weapons is that it is much easier to kill with them than without them. You don't have to be close to your victim, and for most people it's psychologically easier than sticking a knife into a person or something like that. Psychologists have long noted that killing at a distance is more acceptable for the majority, for example, most drone operators do not think that the missiles they fired killed anyone - they “just pressed a button, and that there was an explosion hundreds of kilometers away is not their problem.” .
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Actually they can. Gunpowder, bullet molds, lead - can be legally purchased without a license. Bullet assembly machine - can be easily printed. It’s also not a problem to get tens of kilograms of empty cartridges at the same shooting ranges.
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The conclusion is quite simple - ban weapons altogether. Make huge fines for finding something like this on you, or files for printing on your devices. The same as with child porn, for example.
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10 years ago, when this topic was just beginning, this was the case. Now printers have reached the consumer level, when you take them out of the box, plug them into a power outlet and it immediately prints well. Model development is also not a problem, because there are people who will develop everything in advance specifically for 3D printing, so that you, as a model buyer, do not have problems with assembly and shooting. Shooting from a distance is always easier than taking a sharp piece of iron and sticking it into a person. With an automatic weapon you will mow down a crowd of people, with a knife you will wound a couple of people. These are completely different scenarios.
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If a crime is committed with your store-bought weapon, the police know who to go to with a search and charges. If you need this thread not to exist, you print your own gun at home. If you are prohibited from buying a gun because you are a schoolboy, an escaped killer, a psychopath or an illegal immigrant, you go and print your own gun.
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It used to be that if you weren't allowed to own a gun, you couldn't go to the store and buy yourself a pair of Glocks. Now - you will order a printer and a couple of spare parts delivered to your home, and no one will know about it until you get them in the crowd.
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Hmm, they didn’t talk about “scaring away”, for example, because there are almost no such cases recorded? The owner of a printed gun will not go to the police with a report of "I was threatened, I pulled out my totally illegal pistol that looks like a Nerf toy and it ran away." Ask yourself, when is it easier for a criminal to get a gun - steal it, buy it illegally, take it away - when most people have a gun, or when no one should have one?
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