The arrest of a man who printed several pistols has prompted the Japanese government to call for laws restricting 3D printers with uncharacteristic swiftness.
Kanagawa police recently arrested a 28-year-old university employee for illegally possessing firearms, after a raid on his home uncovered 5 “gun-like” objects, 2 of which were judged capable of firing lethal rounds – although no ammunition or the means to make any were uncovered.
He had made all the pieces using a 3D printer, having brought himself to police attention by helpfully uploading videos of his handiwork online.
He also made a variety of pronouncements online describing gun ownership as a basic human right:
“Japan’s weakest should arm themselves. When someone threatens you next, tell him you’ll blow him away!”
“For emergency usage people should forget about the gun control law, and make sure they know how to make their own gun.”
“Japan is violating our human rights by not allowing gun ownership for self defence purposes.”
“Gun ownership is a basic human right and even if the Swords and Firearms Control Law cannot be abolished, anyone will be able to make one themselves with the dissemination of gun plans for 3D printers.”
3D printed firearms – widely espoused by a certain subset of gun crazed Americans – are still regarded as dangerously poor quality, but improvements in their design and 3D printing technology are likely to result in drastic improvements in their effectiveness.
The menacing prospect of Japanese other than police, soldiers, hunters and yakuza having access to firearms prompted the Japanese cabinet to call for new laws restricting the ownership of 3D printers, with the National Public Safety Commission’s chairman having this to say:
“This is a new type of crime. We fear repeat occurrences of similar incidents, and present laws do not fully cover cases like this. Both police and those concerned need to consider further measures.”
Police have pointed out that 3D printer sales in Japan are unregulated and even if sales were subject registration anyone could buy them through an intermediary, hampering efforts to pinpoint those behind the printing – much like the dangers conventional printers pose to the security of the currency, perhaps.
Gun control specialists in Japan have warned that 3D printing “threatens the basis of our domestic gun control” and say “restrictions must be considered” to prevent the profusion of printed firearms.
Online there has been as much alarm at the reaction of authorities as there has at news of the original arrest:
“These old fools don’t understand anything but how to ban things.”
“Without any bullets this is just so much plastic junk.”
“Just ban making dangerous objects. With their logic sales of color printers capable of producing fake bank notes should be restricted too.”
“You can make a gun with a lathe. With no ammo circulating in Japan I don’t see the problem.”
“Wait for a ban on agricultural chemicals which can make explosives and metalworking tools. It is unfair not to.”
“PCs can be used to produce all kinds of viruses. We should restrict their sale too.”
“Since they keep banning everything new here it is not surprising we lag in innovation.”
“The American government is busy promoting their 3D printing industry whilst ours is about to ban it. Talk of the next Google or Apple being Japanese makes me laugh.”
“Amazing that with all the issues they ignore or suppress, this is the one problem that gets an immediate response.”
“What are they so worried about? A revolt?”
“Just arrest the people who use them to make illegal weapons. No need for a new law at all.”
“Why does this stupid country keep banning everything…”
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"“Japan’s weakest should arm themselves. When someone threatens you next, tell him you’ll blow him away!”"
This is exactly what's wrong with the world...
Because then the ones threatening you will also get guns to protect themselves from the victim and then everyone has guns and shooting each other like idiots.
Welcome to the USA!
Please die already, F@ggetKing
That's Perfect logic in a perfect world. Unfortunately, we don't live in a world like that.
In a perfect world, if we banned all guns, and everyone did it and followed the rules, we wouldn't have any more gun problems.
In reality, I'm assuming most people who usually follow the law will get rid of the guns, but most of the criminals wouldn't. That would leave more criminals shooting victims like idiots.
Banning then or unbanning them, someone dies. It might as well be the one who assaults you (legit assault like a home robbery or something).
That said, I don't even like guns.
Last time I checked a gun didn't really do much good for a person not used to wielding one. Mostly they just fall into the hands of kids accidentally killing themselves with it.
yay ! Dead children are the BEST children !
Guns are simple to use. I should know, the Army taught me to use it in an afternoon. My score is 38/40 at the qual range. The whole notion that you need to be "trained" with a weapon like one would train with a sword or bow is nonsense. There's a reason firearms brought about the ability to train poor peasants into a proper army.
The point is if there is this guy with a gun trying to rob you, owning a gun yourself won't do you much good if you can't handle it under stress. Like breaking out in a sweat just by pointing the thing at an actual person. With a gun for self defense you need a killing intent if your not good enough to miss the vitals. Most people don't have that when put on the spot.
Also, having a gun pointed at you really decreases your odds of successfully pulling out our own gun in self defense. Even if you could manage, as I said, it's all about killing intend. Just pointing the thing at an intruder who has a gun himself won't actually do any good. If you're really bad at handling your gun the intruder can easily disarm you even while having a gun pointed at him. And by bad I mean that you don't actually want to kill the intruder.
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"There's a reason firearms brought about the ability to train poor peasants into a proper army."
Sure, if your definition of a proper army is cannon fodder. Guns turn peasants into disposable soldiers. After all, it's not like you lose years of hard training when someone of them dies. They're pretty deadly anyway.
You're taking this to unrealistic proportions. There are plenty of people that defend themselves every year with weapons, and that includes old women and fat Latinos. Old George managed to do it while getting the shit beat out of him. He seemed to manage fine. You don't need a killer instinct. The fact is that if you're about to be seriously hurt or killed, it becomes easy. There isn't a person out there incapable of killing, only unwilling to do so. If you do not like firearms, that's fine. You don't have to use one, but don't try to make up stories to make yourself feel better about not having one.
Yeah, as I was saying. If you can handle your gun that's fine. Or if you're up against small fry.
Basically all those disposable soldiers that were given a gun and thus became a threat by virtue of having a gun.
Y'know, those guys that let you draw your gun in the first place or allow you to pull the trigger wile being in a position were self defense kicks in. (Just go confidently and unarmed towards a person that has pointed a gun at you because they think you're a threat. Use body language to sign to them you're not, raise your hands and slowly approach them. Then distract them "Hey, the safety is still on." and snatch their gun from them. This works because most folks don't want to shoot someone that they feel isn't threatening them. Hence: you need killing intent.)
>> There are plenty of people that defend
>> themselves every year with weapons
They shouldn't have to.
I live in a country where that isn't necessary. I don't even see those guys defending themselves with their guns in the news. Just the occasional* school massacre where some kid goes around shooting his classmates that wouldn't be allowed to carry guns at school anyway, even if they lived in the US (as far as I know anyway).
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*I think I saw about two of them in the last 20 years of watching news. That's because it's incredibly hard for kids or even criminals to get guns around here.
Yeah, the weak should just let the strong bet, rob, and kill them. You live the way you like, but I'll have a nice M&P at my hip whenever I need it. Criminals are already armed anyway, and that includes other parts of the world too.
LOL.. I can imagine ppl randomly walking out and shooting anyone. Or like, a 1st person shooter game with team kills on and random madness.. Anyhow, I agree with you. I'm pretty sure there are other ways to deal with ppl who threaten you other than using a gun.
You can imagine, but I assure you, that does not happen where I live and we are allowed to shoot hostile people. It seems people just choose not to be hostile.
wise thinking.
yes and more killings in schools, as if there weren't enough already.
Advanced Darwinism, anyone?
Japanese government is afraid of a revolt. Clearly.
The most significant edge guns have over bows, blowers, slingshots and such is when attempting suicide.
Gravity also has that same advantage. Just climb a few floors up and enjoy the free fall.
and spiders
and disgusting pigs like 06:45 anon
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09:19's mad lol
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grow the fuck up, 09:19
fucking pig
"judged capable of firing lethal rounds"
Right, go fire them into a suitable material. If you come out of it with your hands intact, I'll believe you.
An appropriate model and small enough calibre (not that a random Japanese dude would get ammunition of any calibre), and I'm sure the thing could stand a single shot and be accurate enough to hit something right in front of you. Which is exactly what these stupid government geezers are afraid of.
It'd certainly be easy enough to test remotely until satisfied.
That is the million dollar question so he has a pistol like device, so where does he get the ammunition since I though it was so regulated there that is almost impossible to get it at all.
From that article the thing is closer ot a homemade flare gun...
So yeah, it's a bit..
you can already look up demonstrations on youtube. you wont be winning any wars with them, but they are definitely lethal.
Something about a metal rail and current with lots of velocity... What were those wonders of science "fiction" called. I mean I think there might even be a spin off anime of the same name...
Print a ____gun :3
SCIENCE~
*prints life size model of misaka mikoto* :3
@Anon 09:43; Only winning if it has squishy soft exterior and a built in onahole with USB based warmer.
@Anon 08:28; A Gauss(coil) gun would be more likely.
if you watch a any news, you would know this things are indeed lethal, and not a speculation or a joke.
3D printed guns can fire off several shots with lethal force up to a range of 10-20 meters. However you cannot print gunpowder to make ammunition.
yet. :scientificTrollface:
Black gunpowder is easy enough to make, can be even salvaged from fireworks, empty cases are easy to come by, but making primary explosives for primer requires some decent knowledge of chemistry, and not always easy to come by ingredients
With BP alone, best you can do is likely matchlock pistol. With proper tools and some knowledge in metallurgy you can do flintlock. But if you can make metal parts, might as well make entire weapon with it.
For any illegal uses, pipebomb makes a lot more sense.
Better off making a small crossbow, at least you can print everything and even have spare parts.
Oh my so scary.
The radiation from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings have made the Japanese more retarded than what we imagined.
Dude, in that way, that could mean the whole world is retarded because of all nukes tests and 3 nuclear plants accidents including 2 sites with one or more reactor explosion.
2 bombs directly dropped on 2 japanese town then more than 2 thousands test in the world during decades after World War II.
http://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY
Now, Little Boy and Fat Man, if they didn't make japanese retarded, they definitely traumatize them.
Or many anime wouldn't be that dramatic.
But Anime is fun, would be especially fun for drama lovers too.
It is very plausible as most of the world does seem retarded
LOL so true, so true.
JAPAN NEED REVOLUTION!
Japan needs msirorreT (read backwards, sankaku got filters to auto remove such words for some reason), i have said that many times, Japan is way too bored for its own good.
No they don't need terror but your right they need to get spanked a bit or at least the people do. That said if they get spanked the governments may just turn on the people and remove even more rights.
Their boredom equals entertainment for the rest of the world. And you want to deprive the rest of us of that?
Yes, they need to stand up for their rights, but like the fellow germans, they too sleep in the illusion made by US Oligarchy.
Yeah totally AGREE! What if the Chinky Chinese Commies(or Britannia starts calling Japanese - Eleven) decide to invade japan or ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE like The Walking Dead or Highschool of the Dead?