Anybody else notice the gazillion threads celebrating the firing of the 3-D gun?

[freshwest]

11. It's not just a political or legal point, but a practical danger:

‘World’s first 3-D printable handgun’ under fire

“...Security checkpoints, background checks and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print plastic firearms at home and bring those firearms through metal detectors with no one the wiser," Israel said in a statement on Friday. "When I started talking about the issue of plastic firearms months ago, I was told the idea of a plastic gun is science-fiction. Now that this technology is proven, we need to act now."

Read more:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/3d-printable-gun-153109290.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014475885

It completely undermines our attempts at regulation, if the capabilities of these printers is true. No way to track anything, anywhere. And I'm sure that a plastic bullet could be fired, perhaps in a one shot and then it destroys itself manner.

As I've said before, technology is ahead of legislation, human wisdom or social morals. There is nothing to stop this, anymore than the natives could stop Europeans with guns when they had bows, arrows and spears.

Just think what a terrorist could do with this technology that's going to go online. That first link I quoted above was from DU's Open Source group.