Gun control advocates insist on arguing that gun control works. They go to great pains to “prove” it works, too, which means garbage studies, ridiculous claims, and correlation lacking causation except when it works against them.
One of my all-time favorite arguments was one where someone tried arguing that the NFA was proof that gun control works because there are so few crimes carried out with machine guns since it passed. Never mind that it wasn’t sold to the public as gun control; it was proof. Especially with the 1986 ban preventing new weapons from being registered.
In fairness, it wasn’t as easy to offer a rebuttal as some might like to think, because crimes with NFA weapons were pretty low, and this was after the full-auto drive-bys of the 1990s. It wasn’t common.
Now, it was clear that wasn’t the case, but it was harder to argue against than a lot of other anti-gun claims.
But these days, it’s not difficult at all to show just how idiotic the whole thing is, especially now. I mean, if the NFA worked as that guy claimed, then how did this guy get in a position to be convicted in the first place?
A federal jury in the District of Minnesota convicted a Minnesota man today of possessing a machine gun created by attaching an illegal machine gun conversion device to a semi-automatic firearm.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Amiir Mawlid Ali, 19, of Minneapolis, was arrested after officers found a machine gun in his possession during a routine traffic stop as he was on the way to a high school graduation. Mr. Ali tried to flee the scene during the traffic stop but officers apprehended him before he could get away. The firearm was equipped with a machine gun conversion device and an extended magazine, which was loaded with over 30 rounds of ammunition. A firearm expert testified at trial that the machine gun possessed by Ali test fired 15 bullets in 2 seconds.
“This defendant possessed an extremely dangerous weapon – a machine gun created by the application of a device known as a switch that converts a legal firearm to an illegal one,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Illegal weapons like this are unduly dangerous and offer nothing legitimate in a law abiding society. The Criminal Division will continue to prosecute illegal firearms offenses like this one to keep communities safe.”
“The verdict announced today makes clear that possession of a firearm modified to function as a machine gun will not be tolerated,” said Special Agent in Charge Christopher D. Dotson of the FBI Minneapolis Field Office. “The FBI is proud of our work on this case, and we thank our Local, State and Federal law enforcement partners for their assistance. Together we will work to stop those who put innocent lives in our community at risk.”
The rise of the 3D printer has done something that cannot be undone. It has made it so people can make things for themselves, even if the authorities don’t approve.
Right now, multiple parties are trying to force printer companies to play ball with the government and make it so the printers can’t make things like this, but we’ve talked before about how that will be jailbroken in no time at all. Plus, you can make your own 3D printer, get open source software, and do what you want with it. There’s no way you’re going to stop the signal on this.
And it’s time we stopped pretending we ever could.
Even before the 3D printer, we had PA Luty’s hardware store submachine gun. This was a weapon that could be built in a garage workshop with easily accessible tools and skills. Couple that with people who have CNC machines, metal lathes, and a whole of other machining equipment–all of which are available to the public, by the way–and the truth is that no matter what you want to do, you cannot stop people from making guns, and if you’re going to make the practice illegal, then those who continue no longer have any incentive to obey other laws while making them.
In this case, a full-auto switch off a 3D printer turns a striker-fired gun into a machine pistol. Glock tried to offer a model that couldn’t be converted, and it took the internet five minutes to convert it. Even if every company radically changes its designs, someone will figure out a way to make it full-auto simply because someone showed them it was an option. Glock didn’t invent that switch. No company making striker-fired handguns did, and now that genie is out of the bottle for good.
The truth is that the hope of gun control never panned out as some claimed it would, but they could delude either themselves or others into believing they were just a couple more laws away from Utopia, only it never happened.
The criminals kept getting guns, and did so in spite of every regulation we were told would stop them.
Now, they’ve got more firepower than we, the law-abiding citizens, have. We can’t match them if we’re in a fight for our lives because the NFA, the ’86 ban, and every other regulation you care to name have all worked to make sure we couldn’t.
The whole “experiment” is a failure. It’s just that some people have way too much invested in pretending otherwise for them to ever acknowledge it.
Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment.
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