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Desktop Firearms: Emergent Small Arms Craft Production Technologies
ARES Research Report No. 8 Desktop Firearms: Emergent Small Arms Craft Production Technologies G. Hays & Ivan T. March 2020 with N.R. Jenzen-Jones COPYRIGHT NOTICE Published in Australia by Armament Research Services (ARES). © Armament Research Services Pty. Ltd. Published in March 2020. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Armament Research Services, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organisation. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Publications Manager, Armament Research Services: [email protected] ISBN 978-0-6485267-5-9 2 Credits Authors: G. Hays & Ivan T. with N.R. Jenzen-Jones Editor: N.R. Jenzen-Jones Technical reviewers: Jonathan Ferguson & Bruce Koffler Layout & Design: Justin Baird Bibliographic Information Hays, G. & Ivan T. with N.R. Jenzen-Jones. 2020. Desktop Firearms: Emergent Small Arms Craft production Technologies. Perth: Armament Research Services (ARES). DESKTOP FIREARMS About the Authors G. Hays G. Hays is a firearms researcher with a specific interest in improvised and craft-produced weapons. He has documented hundreds of different designs and examined methods of manufacture, design influences, and user types. He has produced original research for ARES and other organizations, mostly focusing on the design, development, and employment of improvised and craft-produced small arms and light weapons. Together with N.R. Jenzen-Jones he authored one of the foundational works on craft-produced weapons, Beyond State Control: Improvised and Craft-produced Small Arms and Light Weapons, published by the Small Arms Survey in 2018. -
William A. Raven* I. Introduction
______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ PACKING PLASTIC: HOW A FEDERAL BAN ON 3D PRINTED FIREARMS MAY PROTECT THE PUBLIC WHILE RETAINING CONSTITUTIONALITY William A. Raven* I. Introduction “No online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way the government works” exclaimed Clifford Stoll in a 1995 editorial belittling a newfangled device called the internet.1 Today, more than twenty years removed from Stoll’s ill-fated prophecy where the internet permeates seemingly every aspect of daily life, it is easy to scoff at the idea of the internet’s subjugation, labelling the oracle hailing from that seemingly primitive age of 1995 as ill-informed or even crazy.2 Another * J.D. Candidate, Suffolk University Law School, 2021; B.A. in English, College of the Holy Cross, 2017. William can be reached at [email protected]. 1 See Martin Snapp, How a Berkeley Eccentric Beat the Russians–and Then Made Useless, Wondrous Objects, CAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Spring 2016), archived at https://perma.cc/SH75-JGVZ (introducing Clifford Stoll as a former astronomer turned computer systems manager who became disenchanted with the “false religion” of the internet); Clifford Stoll, Why The Web Won’t Be Nirvana, NEWSWEEK (Feb. 26, 1995), archived at https://perma.cc/WC5L-KFT5 (categorizing the internet as a fad that will not result in major changes to education, business, or recreation). 2 See Jamie Condliffe, The Average American Spends 24 Hours a Week Online, MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (Jan. 23, 2018), archived at https://perma.cc/7UK6- HWLQ (showcasing the vast use of the internet in America); Chris Dunne, Amazon Has 1,029,528 New Sellers This Year (Plus Other Stats), FEEDBACKEXPRESS (Feb. -
The Defender
THE DEFENDER A publication of Virginia Citizens Defense League Defending Your Right To Defend Yourself Winter 2021 3D PRINTED FIREARMS: COME AND MAKE IT By Tim Griffin, Deterrence Dispensed Contributor Technology has a funny way of sneaking up on you. For instance, the iPhone in your hand has massively more computing power than those warehouse sized computers that first guided man to the moon. It took just 50 years to turn the most powerful supercomputers in the world into a handheld device. The same is true almost universally across the board when it comes to technology, and 3D printing is no different. The first 3D printers were unreliable, bulky, obscenely expensive, and mostly homemade. Once commercial printers began arriving on market, rumors of this exotic new tech began circulating in the mainstream, but the price tag reserved such equipment to the corporate manufacturing and prototyping world. Almost exponentially demand soared, and companies began producing more reliable, easier to use, and most importantly, cheaper printers. 3D printing wasn't just for large-scale operations anymore: 3D printing was making its way into homes across the globe. As 3D printing became more popular, the "maker community" began to find more and more uses for these nifty desktop object producers. Websites such as Thingiverse act like a "Youtube for files" where users can post their own creations for others to download. Thingiverse now hosts 1.9 million user uploaded files for anyone to download and print for free. Gun enthusiasts across the globe wondered, could this benefit us? Enter Cody Wilson and the now infamous Liberator pistol. -
Bitcoin and the Trust Problem: Is Bitcoin Adoption Accelerated by the Abuse of Trust?
THESIS Karo Zagorus 2020 8E06 CD72 ACE6 1F00 2 Art by Koridian Lionell 8E06 CD72 ACE6 1F00 3 Bitcoin and the Trust Problem: Is Bitcoin adoption accelerated by the abuse of trust? Examining how our trust is being breached and abused, how we are used for rent-seeking, how governments impoverish us through the use of Monetary Nationalism and examining whether Bitcoin is the solution to restore individual freedom and limit the reach of government. Art by Made X Forever Location Redacted Faculty of Arts Applied Social Sciences Department Karo Zagorus Dr. Miklos N. MA Student Associate Professor 2020 Released under CC BY 4.0 license 8E06 CD72 ACE6 1F00 4 Table of Contents DISCLAIMER ................................................................................................................................... 6 LETTER OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................................ 7 FOREWORD ...................................................................................................................................... 9 I. INTRODUCTION TO THE DISSOLUTION OF TRUST ................................................ 11 A. THE UNBANKING OF TRUST ............................................................................................... 16 i. The Unbanking of America ............................................................................................ 20 B. THE ERA OF POST-TRUTH ................................................................................................. 22 C.