Electronics360: "Gun Control in a Maker World"

It is said, of attempts to scrub information from the Internet, "The network treats censorship as damage and routes around it."

The same will surely soon be said of gun control. "Makers treat our machines refusing to do our bidding as damage and repair them." It's already visible in the Digital Restrictions Management sphere. Every time someone wants to consume legally obtained content in a manner the producer of that content doesn't want it consumed, DRM is broken faster and faster. Denuvo is a DRM system used on PC games. It used to take years for a newly released Denuvo interfered with game to have its Denuvo shell cracked. Then months. Last month, it took mere weeks. Last week, Denuvo interfered with games were being cracked on the same day they were being released. Denuvo is now deadtech.

The idea that CNC machines and 3D printers will refuse to run the programs put into them because of the mechanical meaning of the parts those programs create is foolish in the extreme and utterly a-historical in basis.

Great article but following a few threads on various forums homemade CNC 5- axis centers are already making excellent firearms. Fortuneately all the people doing this seem to be representative of the majority of firearms owners in that they are law abiding citizens.

Criminals just are. There are bad people. Perhaps mandatory jail for criminals in possesion of a firearm and more people carrying with a civil duty to stop crime would be a solution. Having said that as most people are pretty stupid, don't evaluate situations before reacting and have screwy 'morals' and 'values'. England has strict firearms laws, they still have a problem with illegal firearms.

Pandora's Box has been opened and there is no going back.