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New York City, ever the center of nanny-ism and delusional tail-chasing, is trying to create a law (yes, another one), which would require... Well, here:

On Wednesday, the New York city council introduced a new bill that would make it illegal to use a 3D printer "to create any firearm, rifle, shotgun, or any piece or part thereof," without being a licensed gunsmith. And even the creator would be required to notify the New York Police Department and register the gun within 72 hours of completion.

Keep pissing into that hurricane, libtards. The genie is out of the bottle. You can make laws until you run out of paper to print them on, but it won't stop weapons proliferation via 3D printing -- and that's a good thing. "A well-armed society," stated Robert Heinlein, "is a polite society." More privately owned guns = less crime. Every crime ratio survey ever taken in this country points directly to that fact, without exception. That libtards don't like those statistics does not invalidate the statistics.

In early May 2013, Wilson received a letter from the Department of State saying that distributing CAD files to make firearms was effectively illegal under International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

BUZZZ!! Sorry, that's the wrong answer, StateSec goons. Point one: INTERNATIONAL law cannot be applied by the Federal government to individual citizens. That's because they are citizens of their states first and foremost. It doesn't matter what treaties and other nonsense the Feds have signed on for, because there is a discontinuity to individual rights. That is by design.

Point two: As far as internal laws go, there are hundreds of precedent cases, all upheld by the SCOTUS, stating that distributing information about how to build a thing or use a thing or perform an action is most definitely NOT the same as building a thing, using a thing, performing an action or distributing actual physical copies of said things. In order to make the StateSec drivel in this case stick, the Court would have to overturn more than a hundred years of precedent which clearly state exactly the opposite of what they are telling Mr Wilson. It wouldn't just upset the legal applecart, it'd toss it over a cliff. But don't take my word for it:

“[There’s] no constitutional problem banning manufacture, sale, possession of all plastic gun[s], just as [there's] no problem banning machine guns, hand grenades, greater than .50 calibre long guns,” James B. Jacobs, a professor of constitutional law and a gun law expert at New York University, told Ars by e-mail.

“I'm sure [the New York state bill], or something like it, will pass. But the First Amendment will not permit banning posting software that would allow ‘printing’ such a weapon, just as we can't ban Al Qaeda literature on building pipe bombs.”

You tell 'em, Prof.

Lefty control-freaks (which is a working description of Obama's entire administration) just never stop to think, do they? React, react, react. Don't like a thing? Well, don't bother to think through the consequences and ramifications, just light your hair on fire, windmill your arms, and run around in circles screaming until somebody pays attention to you. Idiots.