Stop doing those staged shootings, damn american government!
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I'm not really sure why they would need to stage shootings. There are as many firearms in this country as people (some estimates claim more). If a week goes by where some tragic firearm incident isn't available for the media to highlight - I'd be quite suspicious. 350+ million people with roughly as many firearms estimated to be floating around means that there are going to be some people getting shot.
Even if you could, somehow, take all of them away - that might keep people from getting shot... but then you have people getting industrious and creative with their violent tendencies and you have sarin gas bombings in subways, suicide bombers, and people coming to the realization that a diesel pickup with a bed full of gravel makes an unstoppable machination of mayhem when it is pedal-to-the-metal through a crowd (gathered for any purpose).
Though I do find this a little interesting:
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Someone developed a fully 3d printable firearm. From what I understand - it has an exceptionally short barrel life (being all plastic); but it's still quite interesting.
The State Department decided to evoke the ITAR
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to pull the download from the site (though it's already hit the torrent streams - so it's kind of pissing into the wind on their part).
The ITAR is the same 'concept' used to keep companies like Lockheed-Martin and Northrop-Grumman from selling 'Stealth' aircraft and other defense technologies abroad. Any 'persons' manufacturing items identified within the USML
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must register and gain approval before they can participate in whatever the legal jargon identifies.
My question is: Where were these ****s in the Department of State when companies were outsourcing critical manufacturing processes, technology, and machinery... like the manufacture of aircraft wings? Taiwan is making more complicated and sophisticated integrated circuits than the U.S. contractors they have manufacturing their latest and greatest military hardware.
If the spirit of the ITAR were properly being enforced - the Clinton Administration would be on trial for treason. Though, being a politician means dotting 'T's and crossing 'i's to make wrong look presentable.
What happens when China builds an aircraft suspiciously similar to an up-scaled F-35 JSF? Meh. "No indication of any security breaches."
Guy builds a plastic .22 caliber handgun. "Nope, can't do that shit. That's a violation of regulations on the international sharing of technology."
My head would explode were I to do a proper 'face-palm,' here.