Let's Discuss 3D Printed Guns Some More in Wake of Orlando Shooting

[curious aardvark]

really ?
Does that include pistols ?

One of the things that americans don't usually understand is that gun control doesn't mean you can't have guns - it just means you need a reason.

Case in point. I have a client who shoots at a local gun club as a hobby.
He's got an mp5, some kind of .50 calibre sniper rifle, a winchester underlever for which he makes his own magnum rounds and a couple of others I can't remember.
Keeps them at home.

His reason for owning them: he wants to and likes target shooting.
And that's in a country with some of the strictest gun laws around.

In the uk you can pretty much have anything that's not a pistol or full auto. The mp5 was restricted to semi-auto.
But as long as you can prove you have somewhere safe to shoot, and aren't a convicted criminal, there are very few restrictions on what you can own.

I live in a fairly rural area and a LOT of people have shotguns. Most small game hunting in the uk is done with air guns that don't generally need a licence (unless you go above 12ft/lb power) and most other hunting is doen with shotguns, for which you don't need to have somewhere specfic to shoot, just somewhere safe to keep them.

Most americans have this idea that nobody in the uk has a gun. Not true. The difference is that in the uk Only those who have a reason to own a gun, own a gun.

We don't treat the like toys, we don't use them for 'self defence', we use them as the tools for which they were originally created.

It's a cultural difference.
I think at last count we had 3 shotguns in the gunsafe. Including a fully moderated (silenced) shotgun that would be illegal in many us states.
That always tickles me. You can own a gun in the uk that's illegal in most of the us :-)