Short anti article on Slate

[Back to Earth]

I ran across this article today so I thought I'd share, The Medieval Roots of Our DIY Gun Culture

Of course it's anti 2A and not particularly informative or insightful. Looks like they needed something to fill up some space - and bash guns.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/05/medieval_roots_of_our_diy_gun_culture_people_have_been_making_their_own.html

Modern experiments by historical gunsmiths suggest that the effects of medieval handgonnes went well beyond shock and awe. Trials have shown that it’s possible to penetrate steel plate thicker than most surviving medieval armor with a ball shot from a forged iron gun using homemade powder. Here in the United States, you can order a replica of a surviving medieval handgonne from any number of craftsmen employing some of the very techniques invented by their pre-modern forebears. Or you can download schematics from the Internet and make your own pistol using the same kind of 3-D printer my son uses in his high school engineering class.

[IVC]

Same old:

Such new technologies allow anyone with a few thousand dollars to create homegrown equivalents of, say, the AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle—and create them in quantity and without serial numbers, thus making them virtually untraceable.

I'd hate to point out to them that MOST guns with serial numbers are already "untraceable" because there is no centralized database and that the only way to get their "traceable" guns is to create a national database registry, which they are trying to do through the so-called "universal background checks." UBC is just a sham for creating "traceable guns" through registration, for what it's worth.

What articles like these fail to address is the benefit of "traceability" - how many crimes are solved through traces? Are they more dangerous? Are they any different from the ones with S/N filed off?

[onelonehorseman]

Same old:

I'd hate to point out to them that MOST guns with serial numbers are already "untraceable" because there is no centralized database and that the only way to get their "traceable" guns is to create a national database registry, which they are trying to do through the so-called "universal background checks." UBC is just a sham for creating "traceable guns" through registration, for what it's worth.

What articles like these fail to address is the benefit of "traceability" - how many crimes are solved through traces? Are they more dangerous? Are they any different from the ones with S/N filed off?

Exactly. Career criminals aren't going to use thier own registered guns (if they even have any) to commit crimes. The guns they use will more likely be stolen or otherwise non-traceable examples from the blackmarket.

[coryhenry]

What a bunch of bunk

"the United States allows most types of guns to be made at home provided they aren’t then sold or given away by their creators—hardly a disincentive to those already trading in the black market."

How about all the laws are hardly a disincentive to the black market

[Jimi Jah]

Medieval? Some still don't understand why we left medieval England. Seems even more don't know why we have a Bill of Rights.