The Third Wave, CNC, Stereolithography, and the end of gun control

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:20:24 GMT  <== RKBA ==> 

Clarke at Popehat - CNC metalworking machinery will very soon make victim disarmament impossible. Yay! [claire]

And speaking of technology-driven emancipation, we arrive at the thesis statement for today’s rant: the end of gun control is not politically or culturally driven, but was a historical inevitability that was written into the book of destiny by 1810, when Joseph Jacquard started using punched cards to control weaving patterns on his looms and when the practice of chucking rotary cutters into lathe headstocks was adopted en masse at water powered factories in Western Massachusetts in response to British attempts to confiscate American civilian-owned firearms.

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right on

Submitted by Mike Gogulski on Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:38:42 GMT

CNC gear prices dropping like a rock have all kinds of benefits. Hadn't thought of this one. Hell yeah.

Did you see the stink that http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11636 caused? It's as if people think things like the FP-45 Liberator are a bad idea. *shrug*

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Yep. I saw that stink.

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:41:50 GMT

Yep. I saw that stink. Blogged it, too.

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