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Thinking about the future of privately manufactured firearms in America, I think we're going to see more people printing/machining & engraving exact replicas of factory frames and receivers, complete with rollmarks and plausible serial numbers. The P80 frame is preferred by many over the Glock OEM frame, but it's also immediately identifiable. With clone frames & lowers, there will be no way to identify PMFs without running the serial numbers on every gun you see... and in states that have successfully refused a mandatory registry, which is most of them, there is no way to run numbers. You have to do a full trace. Live in a state where private sales were ever legal? I bought it from someone years ago, I don't remember who. And if after all that it's Tyrone or Shaniqua's Glock, they won't be prosecuted anyway. So gun control in America is effectively dead, hooray.
Red states are okay with PMFs, so there are large numbers being produced there every day. In some "blue states", most of the land area is actually in 2A sanctuary counties, where the local police won't enforce state laws against it. And in urban blue areas, "diverse" people do whatever they want.
I remember a few years ago, when marijuana was still more illegal, I would go looking for something lighting related online, and find tons of huge sites selling everything needed to light a state-of-the art grow room. I would go looking for something related to vent fans and air filters, and find mostly supplies for venting your grow without the neighbors smelling it.
We are a rich country, we don't like being told we can't have something, and we have all the money and free time in the world to make it ourselves.
The Demonrats have a delusion that incrementalism still works. In reality, it's like how you deliberately induce antibiotic resistance in bacteria. And yet without it, they can't get the votes, or they get overturned by the courts.
PMFs will no longer have access to cosmetic engraving and cerakoting? Fine, people buy the hardware and learn to do it themselves.
Will no longer have access to any gunsmithing services? Guess what happens.
Can no longer use public ranges? People set up their own ranges.
You want to ban magazines? Fine, they figure out how to print magazines. Factory mags were $20, printed are $2.
You want to ban sale of threaded barrels? Fine, they buy a lathe and learn how to thread barrels.
You want new slides to be serialized and only ship to FFLs? Fine, they learn how to CNC slides, and say they're some of the millions of aftermarket slides sold pre-ban.
You want to ban only disconnector springs? Fine, we have a new hobby for this weekend, figuring out how to make disconnector springs.
It's basically an onboarding process for teaching the masses progressively how to DIY more and more parts, and become more and more impossible to control.
And meanwhile you defund the police, so there's nobody to enforce constitutional and unconstitutional laws alike, and people need a gun more than ever. But meanwhile you're shutting down FFLs over any technicality you can find, so there are fewer and fewer places to buy a registered gun.
This post has been edited by Necromusume: Apr 14 2023, 23:09
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