and anthropogenic co2 production is several magnitudes lower than natural sources.

uh oh.

redneck...
how is it acceptable to use that geo-discriminatory slur?

you think you are so much better than someone because you grew up in a suburb or something?

the sheriff is elected. unlike most police chiefs, state police commissioners, or the heads of the FBI, DEA, BATFE, or the hundred other federal agencies that somehow have arrest powers and guns. think about that for a second. That is a LOT of people who can ruin your life who don't answer to anyone you will EVER have any control over. I bet the sheriff can't invent constitution-free zones like the CBP.

I say get all that hardware into small town hands where it will fall into disrepair, rusting in weed-covered motor pools in a few years when a fleet of MaxxPros that ride like SHIT is last year's Christmas present.

it is actually a bit a stretch.

1st thing, the US is actually not that bad. with 4.8 murders per 100k people, we are no-where near the bad part of town.

on the other hand, here are the top 5, from data in this 2012 report.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj...

city and m/100k
detroit 54.58
baltimore 35.01
philadelphia 21.50
memphis 20.23
chicago 18.48

subtracting the population and murders from the US, and the US moves to around 4.1. removing DC and we move to 4.09.
cities containing 2% of the US population account for 11% of the murders.

if you are operating a vehicle on private property, you don't need a permission slip.

licensed jobs.. people. doctors, engineers. We could have a great argument here on /. about barriers to entry, but licenses for those positions have nothing to do with a license for a person to own a piece of property. engineers and electricians are licensed though boards, usually at the state level, and the standards are set by others in that profession. it isn't a permission slip to own a device.

your car analogy was closest. the people analogy, other than the word "license", has nothing to do with this topic.

and then you resort to this stupid meme, so as to belittle me for my position.

your position boils down to "everything should be under the state. and i should decide what people can have." like a little bitch.

So guns are decreasingly used for robberies.

That wasn't the point you were trying to make, was it? Because I just counter-cherry-picked you.

take out the 5 most left-wing anti-gun cities and we around the 5-10 safest countries in the world.

Ahh.. Mexico. Where private gun ownership is forbidden.

license = permission slip.
a citizen doesn't need a permission slip.

registration = list of houses to raid.
a list that has been used time and again by totalitarian governments, including GB.

laughing stock? you live by government permission slip... like I give a fuck what you think.

It depends how it is measured.

If you take polls relying on self reporting, then yes, the numbers are slightly declining.

If you take the number of NICS background checks then the numbers are up.

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c...

Most states have no registration at all. I can buy or sell a gun to another private citizen I don't have to tell anyone, as long as it's not an NFA item. I can even mill out my own un-serialized rifle that no-one knows about (talked about in a previous /. article on 3d printed guns)

Even the number of NFA classified items (machine-guns, suppressors, etc) are up.
http://www.businessinsider.com...

If only 1 in 5 of the NICS checks resulted in a sale, then gun sales from stores alone outpaced the us population increase.

The gun industry actually sailed through the recessions like they never happened, and gun-industry jobs grew like 30%. People will be retiring off the money they make selling ammo with crazy markups.

My state's concealed carry program has been off tha hook as the kids say.

the police don't actually have to protect the citizens.

this is worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

it is also worth noting that the US is safer now than ever before.

on the other hand, the real deal is there are a surplus of military equipment that can be useful in all kinds of scenarios. the high clearance of an RG33 would be good in a flood, and good for active-shooter scenarios. might as well snap them up if the price is good.

How about a 70% milled lower? 32%? A solid block of aluminum?

When shapes are outlawed, only outlaws will make shapes.

To be clear, you said selling them. In the US, selling your home-made guns without a manufacturing FFL would also get you put in jail.

Worse than that.

You could 3d print several other 3d printers, each could then be used to construct one part of a giant robot. The giant robot could then learn how to 3d print some plastic yoda heads until the materials were exhausted.

Good luck lugging a giant robot, 7 3d printers, and 4000 plastic yoda heads to the airport parking structure, sucker!

the upper of an AR platform (based on the Stoner design) mounts the barrel and houses the bolt and bolt carrier.

the lower has the magazine well, mounts the trigger mechanism, and houses the buffer and buffer spring housing (around which, the stock is mounted).

the chamber is an area of the barrel that holds the cartridge for firing.

I think you need to go shooting with your friends some time.

http://www.fulton-armory.com/%...

Those of you who live by government permission slip will also not have access to 3d printers that can make guns.

The BATFE designated a shoe lace as a machinegun because they can. Your government will do whatever it wants to take from you whatever it wants. 3d printing included.

I imagine the wizards at IBM in the 1960s said the same thing about computers in the homes of the unwashed masses.

There are several commercially successful makes of polymer AR lowers.
In AR-land, the serial is on the lower.
A 3d printed lower gives you the ability to print a non serial numberd AR. Which is legal (US federal. YMMV) because home-made guns don't have to be serialized.