Cody Wilson Interview at Reason: Happiness Is a 3D Printed Gun

An anonymous reader writes "Cody Wilson details his conflict with the State Department over 3-D printable guns in this new interview with ReasonTV. In this video, he discusses how 3-D printing will render gun control laws obsolete and unenforceable; why Dark Wallet, his new crypto-currency, is much more subversive than Bitcoin; his legal defense, headed by Alan Gura (attorney in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago); and his forthcoming book about anarchy and the future."

Re:Getting attention at the expense of 3D printing

[graphius]

I wish I had not just spent my last mod points. If someone is stupid enough to try and make a 3d printed gun (a opposed to machining one out of metal, as suggested below) let them blow themselves up. A gun is simple to make, Kirk made one from some bamboo, rocks and minerals...

Re:Getting attention at the expense of 3D printing

[i.r.id10t]

Like the original Liberator pistol that the US dropped all over France, etc., the idea behind the new production 3d printed one is to allow you one or two shots, so you can aquire a "real" gun from someone else....

Re:3D Printing - Anachy ?

[Arker]

"I find it amusing that Anarchy will supposedly spring forth from a technology that depends on highly refined, multi-disciplinary engineering and built from precision materials that are only manufactured and sold at affordable pricing in the context of a highly ordered society."

Errr, why?

Re:He's just an idiot

[rasmusbr]

He's one of those loons that thinks an anarchy with no government control would be some kind of utopia instead of what it actually is, a place like Somalia run by warlords.

The warlords and their bands of warriors can and should be thought of as small, primitive and extremely violent governments.

The idea of no government is essentially impossible. Imagine two villages close to one another: one that has no government and one that has a government. Before too long the village without government will have a government, either its own government that it has created in order to command a police/militia to defend itself against the government of the other village, or the government of the other village after being conquered by that village's militia. Assuming a population density high enough that all (or most) human settlements can be reached by people from other settlements it follows that everyone (or most everyone) will eventually be under government.

This will be a litmus test

[paiute]

When printable guns become more feasible, it will be revealing what the NRA has to say about it. One one hand, you would think they would support this in the name of the Second Amendment and so on. I predict that the NRA will not be able to spit out the teat of gun manufacturers corporate money and will find some convoluted way to oppose private citizens making their own arms.