Are gun designs open source?

GNU + GUN

I think the topic is not so much "gun folks", but more the idea that the US 2nd amendment right equates with all freedoms.

Its a joke, don't think too hard about it.

Freedom as a concept is to vague and personal to be useful any kind of real discussion; "freedom" means whatever you think it means. This is why politicians love to say it.

I would say that you're right guns make people feel safe.

However, that the constant threat of violence in society leads to degradation of social norms, especially for children who then get less socialization and become more extreme.

You see this in like more people choosing to homeschool their kids - they then get lower quality education and poorer social skills and are less able to survive in society. In a capitalist world, this is slowly eating away the ability of americans to compete in a global economy and so there is a strong movement to isolate our economy which will only make us less competitive.

Empty words from someone that does not understand how countries with less guns still work and don't have CHILDREN KILLING IN THEIR SCHOOLS ALL THE TIME

As a rule of thumb people stop to mass murder other people, without guns. With extremely rare exceptions, we don't have that shit outside of the US and our schools are not shooting ranges.

The other two things you wrote are not reasons, they are a) a slogan that you could put on a 12 years old t shirt and b) something someone who is having a heart attack might say

that's a libertarian ideal. the problem is people don't think their freedom ends where someone else's begins.

people don't stop to murder other people without guns

I live in a red state with lax gun laws. This is probably the stupidest thing I've heard anyone say on the Internet. You should sit down and have a talk with Ahmaud Arbery.

It's it a typo and you're saying "people don't stop murdering others without guns"?

"I don't wanna get political in this video"

Get's mega political and starts using political lingo used by the right wing

Way to go, dude, you played yourself.

I've also seen his temper in his videos plus adding what he said in this video, I am convinced the guy should not be allowed to own a damm BBGun. But he's lucky he doesnt live in a "communist state". Yo what a shitshow.

I had an interaction a few weeks ago where I made the same obvious statement -- that everything is political, like the price of milk is political -- and the someone said I was making it political, like gun rights.

That conversation stopped there unfortunately, but it made me realize something.

Politicized is different from political for a lot of people.

Maybe most people realize the price of gas is political, but they don't think that their internet bill, or whatever, is political. It's just market forces to them, or whatever they assume about capitalism being good.

Ultimately, I think my point is that when people say things like foss shouldn't be political, I think they're saying they agree, but they would lose their in-group status be agreeing with something "woke" like ethics in software. So they have to make a proxy argument about what is and isn't political.

This is like that time I discovered a dude who reviewed camping equipment and watched like ten of his videos and then all of a sudden it went from "top ten hatchets for the back country" to "Zionist lizard Jews are stealing our testosterone to make us compliant."

It took me months to convince YouTube to stop showing me anti woke content.

There is zero correlation between technical acuity and moral maturity.

Being good at doing something does not make you a moral person. It's easy to get it wrong because society actually, consciously and ubiquitly promotes and reinforces the equivalence.

Open software is considered by many a modern example of a anachists-communist project.

The dude is just spewing what he belives to be truth without any regard for the concepts he is actually talking about. Even me supporting both FOSS and gun ownership I belive the whole video should be regard as misinformation/misrepresentation at the very least, propaganda in reality.

Man, that is some concerning shit, pardon my french. Really concerning shit.

Im just speachless tbh. I talk a lot, you can see it in this threat, but I can only say about that, that it is some very concerning shit.

Does he fancy himself to be Batman or what?

The good ole anti-antifa.

Hmmm... I never said that. You're misreprensenting my words.

Maybe what I meant is that there should be clear and hard rules for gun ownership? Maybe I did mean that only him should not be able to own one, perhaps I even meant that only people I agree with shoud own guns. Is not possible to for you to know what I generally believe about ownership and regulation only from my comment above. So please do not put words in my mouth.

Also, bold statement comming from someone with a clear wink to Anarchy in their handle.

Imo, a problem with Marx, is that tha the languaje he used lend itself to very broad interpretations, thus making it easy to absorb him into whatever ideology/plan/scheme.

People who like Stalin or Mao and in a lesser degree Trotsky and Lennin -which to whom we nowadays call commnunists- used his languaje to reaffirm their ideas. Even tho imo their ideoligical brand was quite a ways out of Marx.

Rights are what a community agrees on that they should have. I'm happy my community has agreed that owning guns is a priviledge, not a right. There is no sufficient reason owning guns should be a right, so I can be completely in favour of rights and freedoms without including any right to own guns.

Please just stop

Can confirm, no FOSS at all in Europe

Innocent lives lost due to "law abiding citizens" mishandling guns: a metric shit ton

Corrupt governments toppled by gun lovers: 0

The thought of how many people might be stocking ammo and thinking to use out if their favorite politician loses makes me happy for having an ocean between me and them.

Im pretty sure Japan is sharing software and ideas all the time

It's better when it's the government with guns against criminals, randos, and children with guns.

More guns is always the solution. If it only causes more violence and bloodshed like a tribal civil war in the jungle then you clearly did not get enough guns.

Plus, they're FUN! People forget that it's FUN to shoot guns. Isn't that worth a dysfunctional society crippled by violence and murder?

@lemmylem @Railcar8095 oh i love the fantasy 'we're going to overthrow the government with our rifles' trope, please tell us more

im struggling to imagine how a plastic bullet would work

No need for a 3D printer to make your own ammo, when there are reloading presses already designed for that that will make reliable and safe ammo much more easily. People also make their own lead bullets from tire weights and fishing weights, just by melting it in a crucible and pouring lead into molds

Crazy, I saw a lot in the shotgun realm for 3d printing slugs and shot and sabot shells, but nothing else yet. I'll have to do some digging. Honestly moving away from lead sounds great to me.

I like this point of view. I struggle with it myself. It's the reason I didn't watch this video when he released it. I didn't want to write him off. He's made a few comments here or there over the years that has let me glean some info where he just seems like he'd be a tackleberry mall ninja type (works loss prevention/aka mall cop).

But maybe he isn't, and regardless, I watched his videos for the FOSS content and he really doesnt get political(usually ..this video was out of left field). I try to separate the "art from the artist" so to speak.

That said, I wish "artists" didn't make that so difficult.

For some reason, I feel like he would look better posing with a wooden-body hunting or sniper rifle.

What if they work like in MGS4

People have definitely tried.

You have This., and This. Like everything, it seems like it's mostly just a political issue. You'd probably get more gas out of a smart holster, honestly, but there's just not very much demand from the people who buy guns for actual safety measures, including police departments and militaries. The closest I think you'll find that gun owners commonly want is access to suppressors, mostly out of the convenience of not having to wear hearing protection, and also maybe that it makes them feel like a cool epic black ops guy.

I really want them, from a tech stand point, to be a thing, but no doubt on the reliability issue.

The better design I've see is something like RFID in the hands that reads on the grip of the gun. Biometrics are not a good idea for any system that needs that level of reliableility. The other thing is I would want it to a trigger well replacement not a constant check (I.e. once unlocked it stays unlocked untill deliberately locked again).

we already have far more guns that people in the US. How many guns does it take to reach the levels you're talking about? 5 guns per person?

That feels like a CIA Chicago school question less DoD.

I'm prepared for the robot dog war. An enemy you can massacre with a completely clear conscience.

You obviously need a gun with the same caliber bullet to stop an incoming gun shot. Have you not even read Newton's laws of motion?

it has fuck all to do with " people they don’t like owning guns." it has fucking everything to do with people unqualified and unsafe to own guns being able to obtain guns - whether through gun show loopholes, straw buyers, no yellow/red flag laws, etc.

fuck outa here with liberals getting antsy bullshit. if you weren't paying attention, there's a fucking gun violence epidemic going on, every fucking week there's another mass shooting.

if that's liberals getting antsy, maybe you should fucking wake up and realize this bullshit only happens here. bellend.

Gun people and Open Source people both can appreciate the right to repair, although Americans, particularly southerners, have a certain tendency to have more gunowners across the land than people who can libreboot a chromebook. Both groups of people can use their devices for good or bad, and I think that was the original message the oop failed to relay; I don't really know what they think they're saying.

I see what you're saying... I'm picking up what you're putting down..

There's an overlap of free rights to freedom and free rights to guns, but I think that they're on different fields.

I agree with you, surprisingly, about a lot of what you said. But guns are a weird subject for a lot of people. The issue that is always brought up is that guns are designed to kill. The counter is good safety foundation, training, and practice. The counter to that is, humans are stupid greedy assholes.

For the sake of conversation, I'm mixed. I have guns myself but I treat them with respect. My kids know how to handle them and can cite the rules of gun ownership. The guns are locked up at all times. My family does the same. I can't imagine that everyone is doing the same thing.

Jordan Klepper noted that a firm overlap on both sides is stricter regulatory control of deeper background checks, but the NRA makes this impossible. Jordan Klepper Solves Guns.

Upvoted for the last sentence. Gun and weapon ownership represents the counterbalance of incumbent control. Current control should always be nervous of new powers and new powers should always have the ability to intrude. The lac will introduce a reproductive drift to the detriment of intelligence.

Exactly the problem with a lot of these gun nuts - they can't use their brains because they don't have one.

I fear games like Fortnite being introduced to very young children might conflate "weapons of war" and "toys"

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There's a reason that I listed ARs and 3d printed lowers separately. ARs themselves are basically open source, nobody "owns" the design, so say Hodge, Noveske, Colt, SOLGW, Radian, etc, can all produce lowers etc, MIM industries can produce all the lpk bits, but so can NBS etc, cerro forge and Brass Aluminum Forge Co can both make identical "milspec" uppers, the only thing that is really "trademarked" on any of it is the branding, or an advancement like Geissele's maritime bolt catch (which similar knock offs were produced immediately, anyway.) If you started making and selling say a2 parts (except lowers, but that's just because you need a licence to manufacture for sale) tomorrow nobody could stop you.

Nono, everything is within the US.

okay meal team 6, going to Walmart isn't a war zone so no need to roleplay

I won't, so keep em. Even if we had impossibly utopian world peace, I still want to go to the range and IDPA.

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Upgrade to hardened steel key caps so you can use a .22 for extra range.

The 2017 Vegas shootings were like that (which was full automatic in practice if not in legal or technical definition).

Most mass shootings, though, aren't like that. People aren't clumped up like they were in that case. Also, most people tend not to be careful about shooting in bursts, which helps control your aim. Even an AR15 (which has relatively mild recoil) will still walk all over the place if you hold the trigger down.

The NFA had organized crime shootouts in mind. In theory, the mob could do the kind of training as a group where full auto makes sense. Even if they would, that's not really the threat posed these days.