12.04.12
The Purpose Driven Life
From deep inna hart of WhiteManistan, worth 10,000 words.
Above, Cody Wilson, the now much publicized University of Texas student determined to make 3-D manufacturing plastic gun plans available to everyone via the Internet.
From the Guardian, after having his first rented 3D printer repossessed by the leasing company:
Defense Distributed has applied to the IRS to become a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that will focus on “charitable public interest publishing” – or distributing schematics of the weapons online for free. A new research and development limited liability company called Liberty Laboratories will manufacture and test the guns. A third company, the name of which Wilson would not provide, will manage the finances of the project as a private asset organization.
“It’s our nameless shady Mitt Romney corporation,” [Wilson] quipped.
Charitable public interest publishing.
“[Wilson] met independently with ATF officials and even applied for another license, or ‘special occupation taxpayer,’ [for the manufacture of] more powerful weapons like machine guns,” continues the Guardian.
More recent news stories show at least the 3-D manufacturing publicity trip is honest. A YouTube video of an AR-15 — the lower bout of which is a 3-D plastic piece — falls apart in the hands of the shooter on the range after a few shots. (No link, Google)
“How do governments behave if they must one day operate on the assumption that any and every citizen has near instant access to a firearm through the Internet?” Wilson’s company site asks, rather brainlessly, here.
We already know how the US government acts, despite loud protestations of UN conspiracies to take away all firearms by the National Rifle Association.
So it’s quite obvious Americans really do need home 3D printers and plans to make plastic guns because soon, really soon, all their boom sticks will be taken away.
And in central Africa everyone will access to the Internet and 3-D printing very shortly so all the despots better watch out! 3-D gun manufacturing, a revolution in, basically — nothing, is upon us.
In the meantime, at Secrecy Blog, Steve Aftergood has mounted a Congressional Research Service report entitled “The U.S. Income Distribution and Mobility: Trends and International Comparisons.”
“Based on the limited data that are comparable among nations, the U.S. income distribution appears to be among the most unequal of all major industrialized countries … Empirical analyses estimate that the United States is a comparatively immobile society,” it reads.
Obviously, we have offsetting benefits. Like a geek and supporters who will bring us a “redoubt” of 3-D plastic gun manufacturing.
Disruptive technology is giving us such innovation, progress and collective and individual empowerment to the trivial gadgeteers and extremists, it’s hard to know what’s next. God bless the USA.
The Purpose Driven Life — from the archives.