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Originally Posted by Minte
Making bullets isn't rocket science either. We have a decent size metal stamping department with presses that spit out an average of 200 parts per minute. I had to do the math, but if we ran all of our presses and just made brass casings we could turn out over 4 million bullets per 8 hour shift. I'm not suggesting that we would do that. But the black market would be a goldmine for those garage outfits that want to put a few presses in their garage.
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Bullets require gunpowder at least.... The government has a tiny chance of regulating gunpowder. It has zero chance of regulating plastic, brass and springs. People still haven't come to terms with the fact that one guy in his garage can now mass produce what used to require a small manufacturing plant to create.
Download CAD, push print, have item.
I wonder if people on GFY are starting to get it yet or not...
Automation is breaking many of our long held paradigms.
Employment, Gun Control, Education, Food Production... All the basics of survival are no longer bound by the same rules that applied from the year 1500 to 2000. We are in the process of doing to physical goods exactly what the digital era did to intellectual property. Just as the government is incapable of regulating content theft online it will soon be equally incapable of preventing someone from mass producing perfect replicas of virtually any physical item from high fashion handbags to high capacity magazines for any gun they want.