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Classic pro-gun community, rushing to brigade a gun-related post with pre-prepared talking points.

"Why bother fixing gun laws that clearly fail to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people when you can just 3D print a gun?"

*someone makes a move to stop dangerous people 3D printing guns*

"Why bother preventing dangerous people 3D printing guns when you can just buy a bit of pipe at the hardware store?"

Criminals and domestic terrorists overwhelmingly just go to a store and buy a gun. The pro-gun community is fine with this.

For the minority that can't, straw purchases, gun show loopholes and poorly secured firearms give them much better access to safer, more reliable guns than 3D printing does. The pro-gun community is fine with this too.

A tiny fraction of crimes involve 3D printed gun parts and I'm not aware of any domestic terrorism to use any. Nevertheless, somebody could in theory print parts for a fully automatic weapon that would potentially be reliable enough for a mass shooting.

So how many crimes are being comitted with a piece of old pipe?

I know self-absorbed, gun-owning, 300lbs men pretending they'd be useful in a militia want to angrily hammer out a comment along the lines of "WHAT ABOUT THAT ASSASSINATION IN JAPAN YOU CUCK".

But the one example you can cite without googling, from every single country with gun control was clearly dogshit barely worked.

It would be a massive improvement if American criminals were forced to use home made firearms that significantly increased the price, difficulty to obtain and the danger to themselves using it.

But the pro-gun community objects by walking down a list of bullshit excuses because they can't just say "I'd rather people were shot than I was inconvienced".