Thursday, November 20, 2025

MAKES YOU WONDER

 As I was reading about a sliver of New Yorkers trying to exercise their Second Amendment rights I was suddenly struck by an errant thought. It is probably illegal to sell anybody in NYC a gun without going through all the ridiculous hassle of forms and paperwork that don't seem to have any basis in our Constitution and so should not exist but,

what if I loaned them a 3D printer that also had directions to the sites on the web where it is possible to download files that would allow a 3D printer operator to download and print a .45 or an AR-15? It's not like selling someone a gun or giving someone a gun, it's just a technology transfer and I don't know if ITAR applies when transferring tech between Americans in America.

It's like loaning someone a book or a car. Nothing illegal about that.... 

3 comments:

Michael said...

Nothing illegal about that?

Lavrentiy Beria and a few hundred Federal Judges would like a word with you.

"Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime"

Lavrentiy Beria

1984 was intended to be a warning, not an operators manual

“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Dan said...

The idiots in New York have been voting for this insanity for decades...they are now getting exactly what they voted for. I say build a wall around he place so they can't export their insanity to other places.

Anonymous said...

Make the film "Escape from New York" a reality. That'll teach them.

Phil B