3-D Apocalypse Zombies with Plastic Guns will get you and yours…

Which is likelier: being shot with a 3D-printed plastic gun, or getting burned in a car fire? image source

Tracy Turner
Activist Post

1990s, Netscape or Internet Explorer? For those who have not followed the Open Source Movement – while many or most of you were arguing Mac or Windows, Free BSD was doing cartwheels where Mac System 6 and Windows 3.1 (both could play music CD’s, neither could surf the web) could barely stay booted-up.

But deceased Steve Jobs and Monsanto’s Michael Taylor could well surpass Bill Gates’ position as most hated man on Earth today if either could corner 3D tech, now. BTW, open-source Firefox works the best. This is not about guns, this is about Boardwalk Place billionaire monopoly via Plutarchs.

Let us digress – the government has focused the corrupt lamestream media onto guns as populace bogeyman aka fear mongering. How many of your loved ones were assassinated via plastic homemade guns? How many of your loved ones might soon in the future need a 3D bio-liver, 3D bio-kidney or 3D bio-cornea transplant? The great national panic is the consumer printing their own, bypassing Astra Zeneca, Dow, 3M and Monsanto.

What all fear-mongers have in common is to kill all competitors (financially-speaking), particularly your free, open-source and 3D printer competitors, firms, developers, garage-inventors (the new Steve Wozniaks), etc. Free products that work better (Free BSD, Debian, finished work coming out of a 3D printer, etc., is evil; over-priced inferior-performance and slow innovation is the Holy Grail).

The idea that scientists, garage inventors, web and computer geeks can do a better job with less money than multinational mega-corporations that elect and re-elect all politicians worldwide is… well, un-monopolies are un-American. The fact that they serve the public good rather than corrupt politicians and corrupt monopolist-consumerist-conformists is drummed out by propaganda news shills selling ad space and monopolizing TV and the Web. Circa 2013, 3D printers are evil gun-fabricators owned by right-wing-killer-perverts.

Is the open-source-invented, non-patent free or very low-cost schematic protected free speech? Even though one can probably get the schematic free or low cost, buy the or formulate materials for a few dollars … one is legally mandated to buy a morphine pump from Big Pharma. Fuel Injectors for a truck that work better than those from Detroit, same deal. You must purchase from ‘authorized’ monopolists, the truck injectors must get less fuel economy and be designed to break. Yes, 3D is new and expensive, for now.

An army of zombies shall shoot every man, woman and child in the US Army, 😉 with a 3D ‘printed’ gun, right? We all know how cool the gun companies and NRA are with us printing very, very high-tech guns in the laundry room at home. Just as cool as Bill Gates still is with Unix. Do you sense an uphill battle, or a sham, brainwash battle, ya think?

The whole philosophy of the open-source was and still is universal free access to plans, formulae, blueprints; the open-source that Monsanto pesticide company is fighting … the agronomist open-sources are dedicated to free fruit and vegetable genes/seeds, no food patents, etc. As goes the 3D printer, so goes food, water, probably private property, etc. A morphine drip-pump for cancerous Gladys in her own home, you have to pay PHARMA for the pump and a licensed Registered Nurse to run it – even if the open-source people make a superior morphine pump that needs no nurse.

More than guns can come out of a 3D printer, hence the fierce, fierce brainwashing with the scam and sham mind-battle.

Aside from my theoretical morphine pump and truck injectors, Boise Weekly put together a list (of things the monopolists don’t want you making at home!), like: Shoes, Body Parts (jaw, replacement hip, etc., Handguns, of course and/or an Urbee car. An entire car, made out of parts from a 3D printer and Internet-downloadable plans. Greenhouse misting systems, a small farm tractor, a set of metric and standard tools, a solar-charged flashlight with LED’s … basically, you can download plans for just about anything for free, online and cut the parts on a 3D printer – so watch the government outlaw them from the public.

Following dated items found at http://www.3ders.org/applications.html:

May.24, 2013 – Austin, Texas based online hackerspace TechJango has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its Darkmatter Xbox Laptop you can buy as a fully assembled product or in kit form.

New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione has warned the public against the use of 3-dimensional printed guns, pointing out that they are both dangerous and illegal.

May.23, 2013 – Kaiba Gionfriddo, a six-week-old baby collapsed and turned blue when the family was at a restaurant. Using a device to restore his breathing created by a 3D printer has saved a baby’s life.

Andrew Man-Hudspith is 11 years old but he has used his 3D printer to make plastic objects and repair things that breaks.

May.16, 2013 – Four students from Leiden University in the Netherlands have come up a striking concept: SkinPrint. “SkinPrint will solve this major issue by producing human skin with a 3D Bioprinter.” Notes the team.

The Executive Council of Amsterdam’s HBO College has banned students and lecturers from making a gun with the college’s 3D printer.

May.9, 2013 – However experts warn that firing a gun in which any part has been created in a 3D printer could pose a potential threat to their users.

That’s right, in test firings, many 3-D guns explode upon firing (would injure a human hand firing said ‘threat to society’. Remember, those who can afford this technology and make their own economy car – bypassing Detroit, Japan and the Germans. Expect to hear a plethora of fear mongering, such as Bloomberg jumping in. The Bloomberg article reflects a Plutarch warning to the masses of all the ways 3D printers can kill or harm us all, with no references to printing human skin to save lives.

The U.S. State Department has demanded that Defense Distributed take down its 3D gun files because they were “possibly in violation” of export-control laws and because this was high profile, repetitive news cycles fear mongering propaganda.

Bloomberg quotes:

It gets a bit scarier. Professor Lee Cronin, at the University of Glasgow, has been experimenting with something he calls “reactionware,” which he hopes will allow people to print their own medication at home. A 3-D printer shoots a sequence of chemical agents into special gel chambers that create a controlled reaction. Cronin says that before long, consumers should be able to download a “recipe” from a drug company — for, say, ibuprofen — that they could then print out at home. This holds great promise for patients, drug researchers and developing countries in need of medicines.

What is scary, the DEA war on drugs killing people in raids just as they are inventing new life-saving drugs? Who scares you more, garage inventors or Homeland Security?

Aside from Bloomberg using fear-mongering words and concocted scenarios that have yet to happen, mostly… The drug companies are staking out their turf, so that a Leukemia patient does not download a recipe for $5,000 per month Gleevec and just print their own, cheaper pills with a 3D printer, making the pills at home from ‘open source’ free recipes.

Again, Bloomberg article quote,

Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard University offers one compelling suggestion: Require that all 3-D printers be connected to the Internet to function, then make them check with a list of prohibited items online before printing a new object. This sounds promising, and in theory could be used to prevent intellectual-property infringements as well.

Just like Monsanto contaminating organic farm food seed and passing laws that ever more lean towards, “go online and see if your home vegetables are Monsanto-approved varieties of food”.  Monopolies are ‘always in the public interest’.

There is so much TV, radio and Internet fear mongering on 3D ‘guns’ and the ‘potential vast wave’ of persons blowing their own trigger fingers off with exploding guns that we can all see what ‘vast truth with no propaganda’ we are being bamboozled with.

Circa future date and time, you are a woman and 3D-printed cars are not available so you buy a factory-monopoly car. It catches fire on a bridge and the defective electric door locks trap you inside with the heat. A large, burly truck driver filled with adrenalin kicks a window out and pulls you to safety; but your face and arms are horribly burned.

While in the hospital, your family is contacted by Connecticut grad-student medical researchers who offer to print-grow 3D new face and arm skin to restore you back to a condition almost before the fire. They have designed an algorithm and bioprocess to grow skin with the same thickness, color, texture and softness as the burn-victim’s skin. But…

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The Cloud has detected similarities between your file, Skin12 and the Bloomberg Medical Groups Skin.dat. Under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, your file Skin12 has been destroyed. Please Contact Bloomberg Medical if you wish to lease Skin.dat.

The US 3D Printer Department has detected dangerous activity within the (Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs Spy-Monopolist) Cloud; You and the others who attempted to build the file Skin12 are now on the ‘No Fly’ and ‘Terrorist Watch’ list.

In New Mexico, a Schizophrenic man is struggling with Schizophrenia and the cost of his anti-psychotic meds, living expenses, etc. He is diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous leukemia. His neighbor is a University and Aerospace Researcher with dual degrees, one of is Chemical Engineering. As his 3D printer starts spraying chemicals into gels to make generic Gleevec from an expired patent, the DEA and Department of Homeland Security show up. The agents handcuff and charge him with Narco-Terrorism and possessing bomb-making chemicals (the Gleevec raw ingredients).

In Northern California, an IEEE IBM employee is charged with Narco-Terrorism and possessing bomb-making chemicals for engineering his own treatment for Multiple Sclerosis for himself and his wife.

3D printers, 3D printing and inventors are probably the upper-limit of what this techno can accomplish in a free and open society. A few publications and articles discuss open-source free as opposed to patented-monopolies. Such discussions seem myopic in a 1950-2013 time-frame-sense. Wall Streeters like Bloomberg overtly or covertly take Monsanto’s side, monopolies’ side.

When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, legend has it that the Native Americans explained that they had patents and copyrights on Corn, Squash, Pumpkin, Wild Turkey hunting and making fish hooks.

If the legend, the properly told legend is correct, open source saved the lives of the first Euro-settlers to America – not patent-monopoly by Plutarchs, Oligarchs and Kleptocrats. Sharing is a tradition in America going back to the Americans on the East Coast. Hoarding food patents via Monsanto or inhibiting 3D chemical and bio-invention is as uniquely Un-American as Monsanto food-patent-hoards. Closed source Apple, Bloomberg and Microsoft is the opposite of Native Americans feeding Pilgrims and teaching corn farming.

How did the Bloomberg article miss 3D bioskin printing for burn and road-abrasion victims? The most fearsome thing of all is a human in agony missing lots of skin and Bloomberg news-Big Pharma/Big Med charging $30,000 for a few millimeters of bio-3D-printed skin. Brainwashing via Lamestream Media does not replace dead human body organs and tissue, broken or missing limbs.

http://phys.org/news/2011-02-3d-bio-printers-skin-body.html

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Tracy Turner was born into two extended families of bookworms – one horticultural and one petroleum industry. Semi-retired from IT and Botanical Garden Plant Propagation, his main interest are science, news, politics national and world events. Urges anyone to ask several IT professionals about web censorship; which is becoming rampant. Twitter, Facebook and Myspace are not free speech – they are places of monitoring, censoring and personal data harvesting. If you love freedom, become active in free speech and freedom of the press activism.

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Julie Beal, Contributor
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Sometimes it feels like I’m talking to a brick wall – last week, I raised the alarm on the growth of the smart gun movement, and how they would lead to microchip implants.

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Then Obama issued his ‘executive orders’, or rather, made a speech about guns, including measures that could further the introduction of these ‘personalized’ weapons. The mainstream has also been reporting on this issue, so I’m mystified as to why there is still no real reaction: the focus of gun rights advocates remains on the mental ‘health’ aspect.

So excuse me for shouting, but it’s high time to:

DEMAND A PLAN TO STOP SMART GUNS BECAUSE:

• THEY CAN BE REMOTELY DISABLED


• THEY WOULD LEAD TO MICROCHIP IMPLANTS


•  DUMB GUNS ARE SET TO BECOME ILLEGAL AS THEY WILL BE DEEMED UNSAFE

I am a UK researcher; people here rarely talk about guns, and it’s uncommon to see them being used or carried. However, I’m trying to inform people about smart guns because I’m opposed to all of the programs which require implantation with a microchip for security reasons, and because the police and military[1] have an alarming array of awful weapons to use against us[2].

In the UK, The Telegraph just reported that Google wants people to use a ring to have a single online sign-in (this is identity management):

 …. In a research paper, two security experts at the web giant have outlined a future in which the main way of guaranteeing we are who we say we are online will be possession of a physical token, perhaps embedded in smartphones or even jewellery.

They have added to growing claims that passwords are both inherently insecure and increasingly impractical.

We’d like your smartphone or smartcard-embedded finger ring to authorize a new computer via a tap on the computer, even in situations in which your phone might be without cellular connectivity, the Googlers wrote.

I also believe that the proposed large-scale manufacture of smart guns should be dominating the gun control debate in America, because they seem set to be regulated as a consumer product, which must therefore have safety features – so ALL guns would need to conform. This would enable ‘wide area control’, meaning any gun could be remotely disabled. When the authorities decide they don’t want you to use your gun, they can just switch it off. The White House is now poised to act, and the guns are ready to go into production. The next move is to get the approval of Congress – probably legislation to bring guns (and/or safety mechanisms) under the Consumer Product Safety Act. The issue needs a good public airing well before that. Especially since ‘Anonymous’ put out a video inciting Americans to fight their government:

American people have decided to openly declare war on the United States government. This is a call to arms. We call upon the Citizens of the United States to stand beside us in overthrowing this corrupted body and call upon a new era.

Rising up with guns is a surefire way to convince Congress to legislate the manufacture of ‘safe’ guns. A color revolution for the smart world order, for which the table has already been laid.

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The GUN POLICY SUMMIT

Following Joe Biden’s round of meetings to address gun control in the country, a gun policy summit was convened by the Johns Hopkins University last week, and was attended by some of the “global leaders in gun policy and violence – representing the fields of law, medicine, public health, advocacy and public safety”. These people are said to have reached consensus on a number of issues, leading to the release of a list of recommendations, including personalized guns:

• Congress should provide financial incentives to states to mandate childproof or personalized guns.


• The Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission should be granted authority to regulate the safety of firearms and ammunition as consumer products.

All of the researchers’ recommendations have been compiled into a book which has been published in just two weeks! The book includes the above smart gun recommendations, and the back cover features praise from Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City; Martin O’Malley, Governor of Maryland; and David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of America.

The book (Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis) is edited by Daniel Webster, the co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, and Jon Vernick, who has done a lot of research, some of it with Stephen Teret (see below), to advance the development of personalized weapons. New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who is also co-chair of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, has written the foreword.

The book includes an analysis of the constitutionality of many recommended policies and data from a national public opinion poll that reflects support among the majority of Americans—including gun owners—for stronger gun policies.

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[Please note, the video takes 3.5 minutes to start, and Teret’s speech is from 46 mins and 50 secs to 1 hour and 14 mins.]

One of the speakers at the summit was Stephen P. Teret, a long-time champion of personalizing weapons, and setting safety standards for them. He gave a thirty minute speech[3] at last week’s Gun Policy Summit, in which he stressed the need to design guns responsibly, and safely. He claimed the technology is already available, and all America needs now is regulation. He described two designs – one of which, produced by Armatix, is the iP1, and is, said Teret, “… being sold in Europe now and is ready to be sold here in the U.S. … this is ready now. This is for sale now in Europe.” Teret also said that the ATF approved the iP1 personalized gun for importation in December 2011 – it uses both fingerprint sensors and RFID (it comes with a microchipped ‘wristwatch’). Teret then goes on to describe the smart gun developed by TriggerSmart, which operates on the same High Frequency band used for contactless credit cards, and is said to work in an instant. Use of a ring, wristwatch, or implant[4] is required, as with the Armatix system.

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(the chip goes in at 3:30 mins!)

The CEO of Armatix, Bernd Dietel, and the founder of TriggerSmart, Robert McNamara, were both present at the summit. Teret commented that, in a conversation with Dietel, about the expected impact on prices, Dietel had asserted, “…once you get economies of scale going, it will increase the cost of a gun 10-20%.”

There was no mention by Teret of the ‘dynamic finger grip’ gun design I described in my last article – the two most likely designs both require a chip to be present either in or on the hand. The suggestion that all police forces and other gun owners should have to wear a ring or watch at all times just to fire their gun is ludicrous. Nobody could be expected never to lose or forget to wear the device, to be unable to, or to have it stolen. Implanting a chip into the hand only takes a couple of minutes, and is then ‘secure’. Hands, however, are removable.

On Christmas day, 2012, Robert McNamara posted a message to the policemag.com forum asking for advice on how to bring his gun design to the attention of the authorities in the U.S.:

Firstly, if Mrs Lanza had TriggerSmart installed in her guns then Adam could not have fired the guns without her authorization RFID tag.

Secondly, if TriggerSmart Wide Area control was installed at the school then any TriggerSmart guns could have been disabled at point of entry to safe zone.

It is my intention to licence our technology free to every school and University in the USA free of charge.… we have been GRANTED a patent in the USA and … I am just back from South Africa where they want to use our technology to prevent the gun violence there and I have had some enquiries from KSA and Egypt, UK and Norway where there were over 70 killed in a massacre last year.

On New Year’s Eve, McNamara again posted to a forum about his “childproof RFID smart guns” –

What our technology can do is create a zone to disable guns if they come within a safe zone such as a school, airport etc. We call this Wide Area Control or WAC. The guns need to have TS RFID technology installed in the first place.

In an email sent to Mitch Barker, (Executive Director, WA Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs), McNamara implied the Connecticut massacre had helped build the “momentum .. on .. our side of advocating safer guns and safer gun laws.”

Barker replied,

I believe there is a huge market for this technology. More importantly, I believe it will save many lives. The police market, as you know, has looked at smart guns for years. They will be a tough group to convince because of the concern the weapon will not fire when needed. While I believe there is much that can be done to help move this to the police/military market, it seems that the civilian market is a much better place to begin.

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McNamara has just been interviewed by Fox News, looking oddly shifty and uncomfortable. In the interview, he claims his design will cause the gun to be fired by an authorised user within a quarter of a second. He dismisses biometrics as unreliable, and says a pilot program will be up and running in a short time. TriggerSmart was granted a patent in the U.S. last year, and has an international patent pending. However, the product has not yet reached production stage: McNamara says he wants to make 50-100 of the guns and give them to the police and the military for testing.

Teret is very optimistic that regulation on smart guns will be forthcoming; he is well placed to influence policy – during his speech, he recounts his meeting to discuss personalized weapons with Biden’s taskforce last week, which had concluded with Attorney General Eric Holder endorsing smart guns the technology, and saying he would walk from the meeting, straight over to the White House, to talk to the President about it. Teret certainly seemed to think he had been ‘given the nod’ by Holder with the words:

…when the President speaks …. listen closely, because the President will be saying things that you all said in the meeting…

Last September (2012), Teret received the Chairman’s Circle of Commendation Award from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in recognition of his “…exceptional contributions to consumers in the United States by reducing deaths, preventing injuries and improving consumer product safety.”

THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH ON GUNS

Both Biden and Obama made their solemn speeches to the nation on the 15th of January. Part of the showmanship was to deliver each speech with the manner of a caring but authoritative father: the finale was a spectacle involving the President signing what the media had led us to believe were 23 ‘executive orders’ on measures to control guns.

However, journalists have begun to point out that Obama didn’t pass any executive orders at all – really, all he did was make his position on guns a tiny bit clearer – and go on and on about the shootings and the children, and strengthen the meme of collective responsibility. As Meredith Drake, at breitbart.com, puts it:

The President has found a winning formula to push through his extreme policy views: campaign, grow support, give the appearance of action and fund raise off pseudo-action. The President is now applying this campaign tactic to gun control, giving the appearance to America that he is taking action to protect children from madmen….. it appears that the President had his children-hugging press conference to announce action but then signed directives to his cabinet and asked them to report back in 30 days.

Biden made his speech before Obama, repeating four times that we all have a “moral responsibility” to act to stop more massacres. There was no real substantiation for action other than the emotional effect of the shooting tragedies which have occurred. There was certainly no mention of implanting microchips, or remote disabling of guns. Two of the ‘executive orders’ can be seen to relate to smart gun technology, without naming it as such:

• (no. 8) Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).


• (no. 15) Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.

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It is highly surprising that no direct reference was made to smart guns during the speeches given that day, given the massive movement now endorsing smart gun technology, and the support of key government officials. The President called for support from the nation, and from Congress, but without making it clear which specific actions he wanted them to support – the line of reasoning got lost towards the end as he just kept referring to ‘this’ and ‘it’. However, metaphors for ‘safe’ gun technology (and mental health checks) were scattered throughout –

• “ways to keep guns out of the wrong hands”


• “ keep guns out of the hands of criminals”


• “kept … the wrong people from getting their hands on a gun”


• “keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people”


• “keep guns out of the wrong hands”

This repetition helps prime the mind to accept the proposals which look set to come soon. The overall theme is to suggest that anyone who rejects the proposals clearly doesn’t care about ‘the children’; you have to show you care.

The NRA-ILA website singles out four of Obama’s ‘executive orders’ as being “the most potentially problematic”; one of these is personalized firearms:

… Obama will direct Holder to issue a report designed to promote ‘smart’ gun technologies that gun owners generally do not want, and that would raise the cost of firearms and potentially render them useless.

I cannot find any other recent statements regarding smart guns by the NRA, other than a sentence published earlier this month, as one of various ‘firearm facts’, which says the NRA opposes smart guns which “have expensive, unreliable features, such as grips that would read your fingerprints before the gun will fire”.

Obama also mentioned in his speech that he would make Minnesota U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as part of the 23-point gun control plan; this may be a controversial move, however, since, according to an article at breitbart.com:

Jones was personally a part of the high-ranking Department of Justice unit that first met on October 26, 2009, to create the new DOJ policy that was used to justify ‘gunwalking’ in Operation Fast and Furious. In Fast and Furious, the ATF ‘walked’ roughly 2,000 firearms into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. That means through straw purchasers the agency allowed sales to happen and didn’t stop the guns from being trafficked, even though they had the legal authority to do so and were fully capable of doing so.

Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexican citizens-estimates put it around at least 300-were killed with these firearms.

Guns and the Law

Two states have passed laws related to the regulation of personalized guns; New Jersey did this in 2002, when it brought in legislation mandating that within six months of personalized guns becoming easily available on the market, it would become illegal to transfer ownership of any gun which was not personalized, in any way.

Maryland stipulates a report on the technology should be made annually, and the findings must be delivered to the Governor and the General Assembly.

In Pennsylvania, several senators are trying to pass bills which seek not only to legislate on the sale of smart guns, but to enforce the forfeiture of ‘dumb’ guns once personalized firearms are available; Senator Youngblood has introduced a bill (HB1282) which has been referred to committee on House Judiciary. It proposes,

adding a chapter providing for a safety performance standard for the manufacture of handguns, for the forfeiture of certain handguns and for enforcement relating to a safety standard for handguns; imposing penalties; and conferring powers and imposing duties on the Pennsylvania State Police. The State Police are required to promulgate regulations prescribing a handgun safety performance standard, which must include:

(1) A handgun shall be personalized so that it can only be fired when operated by that handgun’s authorized users;

(2) The technology establishing personalized handguns shall be incorporated into the design of a handgun and be part of its original equipment; and

(3) No personalized handgun may be manufactured to permit the personalized characteristics to be readily deactivated.

Teret, meanwhile, has been working on smart gun legislation from a different angle; he believes guns should be regulated under the In May 2000, he co-authored, ‘A Model Handgun Safety Standard Act’ for the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.

In law, products which are manufactured and sold to the public are regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). A manufacturer who sells goods which fall below the expected safety standard can be prosecuted; each company has a ‘duty of care’ to avoid committing the ‘tort of negligence’. Basically, manufacturers must take reasonable care to ensure their product is made according to safety standards; if they don’t, they are liable to be sued. Guns and ammunition are exempt from the jurisdiction of the CPSC, but Teret, and many others, believe this law should be overhauled, and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which gives gun dealers and manufacturers protection from tort liability, should be repealed. This was discussed in article at the Daily Kos:

Under standard product liability law, manufacturers are liable for defect in the design and construction of their products. Tort liability provides a powerful means by which concerned individuals or groups can gain leverage against much wealthier business interests. It is not necessary to win a suit to achieve a change in corporate business and behavior. Often, the threat of lawsuits alone provide a powerful financial incentive to an industry to make its products safer, and reduce the risks associated with the use of their products. Additionally, the liability process can force manufacturers to release internal documents regarding the known risks associated with product use – as occurred with dramatic effect with suits brought against the tobacco industry. The liability process can also create poor publicity for an industry or manufacturer. In broadly restricting civil suits against the gun industry, the federal government took away a potent tool by which consumers can lobby for their safety and well-being.

If it could be shown that smart guns were ‘safer’ than dumb guns, then “…litigation against gun makers for their failure to provide technologically feasible, inexpensive safety devices”, would force them all to fit the devices to the guns, because not fitting them would be classed as negligent.

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One of the ways personalized weapons are said to be ‘safer’ is because they could prevent someone firing a gun that did not belong to them. Teret and Vernick, et al., have conducted studies which they claim to prove smart guns could prevent many unintentional deaths. If a safer alternative is available, but is not incorporated into the product, the manufacturers can be held liable in cases where a smart gun could be argued to have prevented a crime or a tragedy (such as a child firing his parent’s gun).

The issue is largely a question of foreseeability – whether or not it would have been possible to anticipate such unintended use of the product. This ties in with how the gun is stored. There are said to be “three distinct risks of negligent firearm storage: accidental shootings, adolescent suicides and the criminal misuse of stolen guns.”

Teret began his speech at the gun policy summit with the highly emotive story of a four year old child shooting his baby brother in the head while he slept in his crib. Teret notes such an incident can be classed as ‘foreseeable’; changing the design of the gun, he says, would prevent it from happening. This would then be regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

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Moves in this direction have also come from Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, who last week announced legislation he would like to see enacted: the Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act would “… ensure that the victims of gun violence are allowed to have their day in court and that the gun industry … is not shielded from liability when it acts with negligence and disregard for public safety.”

In an interview at TheAtlantic.com, Schiff said,

I have discussed this and other priorities with the House Task Force on Gun Violence, led by Rep. Mike Thompson and submitted this proposal to the Vice President’s working group. My legislation is just one piece of the larger conversation we’re having on how to reduce gun violence in this country, but it is an important piece and I look forward to gathering support and moving forward. We’ve already had a great response from Members and outside groups, like the Brady Campaign and the American Bar Association, who are interested in this issue.

According to the 2008 report, ‘Regulating Guns in America’, by the Legal Community Against Violence, locking devices can be any device which prevents a gun being fired by the wrong user, and can be either external to the gun, such as a gun safe, or integrated into the design, such as a personalized trigger lock. The report notes,

Locking devices themselves, however, are not exempt, and therefore the CSPC has the ability to adopt national safety standards for locking devices.

Conclusion
 
The Alton Consulting Group, LLC, a consultancy firm for small businesses, published an overview of the issues faced by a start-up looking to expand production of smart guns as part of a business plan, and noted police officers were unlikely to want to be microchipped like “the family pet”.

But the proposals to bring in technology such as that offered by TriggerSmart are only one of many applications involving implants. I have written about these applications in some of my previous articles. The key issue is identification – needed for smart guns, online commerce, health services, and payment systems. All of which could lead to microchip implants.

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(watch from 6:25 to 22:45 for info on NASA’s BIO-MEMS)

Even the problem with battery life has been resolved: NASA has developed an RF Telemetry “implantable biomicroelectromechanical” system, known as ‘bio-MEMS’, which can both transmit and receive data, via a miniature inductor/antenna; the bio-MEMS are electromagnetically coupled “with a remote powering/receiving device”, so they don’t need batteries, as they are charged when they are being used.

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Journalists have begun to report on a new portable device for police officers which scans people for concealed weapons. “The device …. is small enough to be placed in a police vehicle or stationed at a street corner” as a way of searching for illegal firearms. The NYPD is about to begin testing the device, “which reads terahertz radiation – the natural energy emitted by people and inanimate objects – and allows police to view concealed weapons from a distance.”

There’s even a start up challenge for someone to develop a 3D-printable smart gun!

Notes:
[1] Many guns were on display at this SOFEX weapons exhibition, none of which were ‘safe’!
[2] Such as tasers which are claimed to ‘save lives’.
[4] This is illustrated (3 MINUTES INTO THE VIDEO) in the promo for Triggersmart on YouTube. Note also

The ONE Group has made a Private Equity Offering:

TriggerSmart installed in a GSG5 – viable, patented, RFID based childproof semi-automatic rimfire rifle. Can only be used with the associated RFID ring, allowing parents, officials and others reassurance that only they can use their weapon. As featured in the New York Times and Fox News.

This article first appeared at Get Mind Smart

Julie Beal is a UK-based independent researcher who has been studying the globalist agenda for more than 20 years. Please visit her website, Get Mind Smart, for a wide range of information about Agenda 21, Communitarianism, Ethics, Bioscience, and much more.

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The first video is the new design of the AR-15 printable magazine by Defense Distributed with follower and loading procedure. The second video shows test firing the 30-round magazine on fully-automatic mode.  The company named the new magazine the “Cuomo” to mock New York Governor Cuomo’s attempt to limit magazines to 7 rounds.

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Joshua Krause
Activist Post

Since 2011, the Austin-based arms manufacturer known as TrackingPoint, has been making high-end precision guided rifles. These are nothing like the firearms that you or I grew up with. Each weapon is mounted with a digital scope that runs on Linux, and includes several sensors that measure range, wind velocity and direction, target size, temperature, and barometric pressure.

All these numbers are crunched by the on-board computer, which then displays the spot you need to aim for. The scope even follows the target as it moves, and when you pull the trigger the rifle doesn’t fire until you are on target.

In short, this is an incredible piece of technology that has been rapidly advancing in recent years. When TrackingPoint came out with their first .338 caliber rifle in January of 2013, it was capable of hitting a target up to .75 miles away, and moving at 20 mph. Now the company is unveiling their latest model, which can hit a target up to a mile away while moving at 30 mph.

Dubbed the “Mile Maker,” the prototype was described by TrackingPoint representative Anson Gordon as “mostly” representative of the final product. The weapon at least for now is built around an enormous, enormously heavy, custom-milled steel barrel, which fires what TrackingPoint is calling “338TP”—a round somewhat similar to .338 Lapua Magnum but with some customized attributes. The company decided to continue on with their own cartridges for the longer-range rifle instead of moving up to a bigger round (like .50 BMG) because of the superior ballistics of the .338 bullet over the bigger .50 round.

Previously the longest range TrackingPoint’s weapons could accurately hit was about 1,200 yards with the company’s XM1 bolt-action rifle; the “Mile Maker” adds 600 effective yards onto the range of the XM1 by using different rounds, a longer barrel, and most importantly, updated software in the computerized tracking scope.

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While we know that it’s capable of making hitting a target that is 1,800 yards away, just how consistent is it? After all, even a broken clock is still right twice a day. If some of the older models can give us any indication, then this latest rifle may have some mind-blowing accuracy.

So is it really that accurate? It works well enough that the US Army is testing it. In one review, it was found that users of an older model were getting 70 percent first hit accuracy at 1,000 yards. A trained military rifleman, not a sniper, would hit about 5 percent of the time.

In a word, that’s impressive.

Don’t pull out your wallet just yet, unless you’re willing to call up the bank to mortgage your house. This rifle is likely going to cost around $40,000 when it is brought to market. That doesn’t mean it’s not going to be a huge game changer.

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Like any computer-based technology, we will likely see the price drop significantly in the years to come. For the sake of comparison, we can get a good idea of where precision guided rifles may be in a few years by looking at 3D printers, which is another revolutionary technology that’s placing incredible ability into the hands of everyday people.

When 3D printers were first finding publicity around 5 years ago, they would cost you roughly $20,000. Now you can buy a high quality 3D printer for anywhere between $1,000 and $3,000. And unlike 3D printers, there is already a massive customer base that would be interested in this technology. People are still discovering new things they can do with their printers because it’s such a new and novel idea, whereas firearms have been around for centuries and already have tens of millions of owners and enthusiasts.  We may start seeing affordable versions of this rifle by the end of the decade.

My only question is, what will the government make of this? How will they feel about a $3,000 rifle that can hit it a target over a thousand yards away? I bet they’ll be thrilled.  

Joshua Krause is a reporter, writer and researcher at The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a freelance writer and author. You can follow Joshua’s reports at Facebook or on his personal Twitter. Joshua’s website is Strange Danger.

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As we predicted:
Obama to “Tweak” Health Privacy Laws to Disarm Americans

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Jefferey Jaxen
Activist Post

In a completely transparent move, seven US medical specialty societies and the American Public Health Association have issued a call to label gun injuries a ‘public health crisis.’ The conveniently timed announcements and editorials have arrived suspiciously in concert with the announcement of the ATF’s ammo ban. Sadly this appears to be evidence of a larger political agenda rooted in red tape politics, money, and control rather than reality.

On the back of a forced vaccination debate currently in full swing, the US medical establishment is running dangerously close to losing further trust along with the hearts and minds of the people it is supposed to be healing.

Gun-related injuries annually kill 32,000 Americans per year; this is the number that is used to support the argument to label gun violence a health crisis. Any injury or death from unnatural causes is a sad statistic, but when put in perspective this ‘health crisis’ appears to be a bait and switch.

Ignoring the real medical tragedies and shortcomings of our time, gun-related injuries represent a fraction of the people being affected by epidemic cancer, autism, and PTSD rates, continually gaining momentum alongside an appallingly high infant mortality rate.

Interestingly enough, in March of 2014, Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Obama’s Surgeon General Nominee at the time (now serving Surgeon General) called firearm violence a “public health threat.” Perhaps this continued misplaced attention year after year from a financially strained healthcare system with limited personnel is why the United States medical system was ranked 11th in the world in 2014. This is in part due to the observation that Americans live in perhaps the most bureaucratic society in history where terms like paperwork, documentation required, terms and conditions, and red tape have trumped healing and empathy. Looking at the entire medical system, one has to wonder if the whole goal is bureaucracy first, healing second. This appears to be why scores of doctors are fleeing their practices after they understand what bureaucratic medicine would look like under Obamacare.

I cannot stand it anymore. More than half of my time in the office is spent filling out forms, writing letters, responding to inquiries, and attending to ‘urgent’ matters that did not exist 10 years ago. And every year my income is less. At this point I would rather be paid nothing and have the freedom to decide what is right for my patients. – Dr. John Curry of Fairfax, VA

The United States is getting a glimpse of their medical care in the near future, and it doesn’t involve adding value to society. Given that each year more and more paperwork, forms, and rules surround an average health care visit, IBM has offered their version of a final solution in the form of a Watson supercomputer to sort through it all more effectively. This is now being phased in at the Veterans Associations in Austin, Texas. The reason given was because our society has reached a point where the average doctor simply can’t keep up with all the paperwork & forms anymore. Instead of better patient-centered healing, education, and empathy, our 11th ranked medical system will buy robots to think for your neighborhood doctor. The end result will be a dumbing down of an already closed, one-sided medical establishment. With the addition of IBM’s Watson computer coupled with forced government medical mandates, corporations and insurance conglomerates have created a system to streamline a profits-over-people approach for maximum financial return.

[In an overly bureaucratic society] what they are trying to tell us is that value ultimately comes from paperwork. – David Graeber author of The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.

References:

Secret $1.8 Million Cryptocurrency Script

LA Times: Gun Injuries a Public Health Emergency
Our Infant Mortality Rate is a National Embarrassment
The Commonwealth Fund U.S. Health Care Rank

Jefferey Jaxen is an independent journalist, writer, and researcher. Focusing on personal empowerment and alternative health, his work reveals a sharp eye to capture the moment in these rapidly changing times.  His personal page is located at JeffereyJaxen.com.

This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.
– Adolf Hitler

James Smith, Contributor
Activist Post

The question of whether a leader is good or a tyrant is an age old question. Being the one who wears the crown opens you up to criticism from all levels, and, to be quite frank, you can’t make everyone love you.

This article is to outline purchases by the Department of Human resources since August 2002, a ten-year span. The Department of Homeland Security was created by then President Bush as a preventative measure from further terror attacks on American soil. And since its inception has been fodder for skeptics and fuel for those demanding a smaller, unintrusive government.

Below you will find the lists of solicitations, hyperlinked to their pages located at http://www.fbo.gov.

The following filters were used:

US Coast Guard and Secret Service were not accounted for. The USCG rarely requested ammunition, and the Secret Service were mainly “Award Only” notices. No amounts of ammunition could be obtained.

Any “Award Notice” only entries were omitted due to the lack of needed information.

In the first chart, you find the hyper linked solicitation, the total number of rounds requested, and the agency requesting the ammunition. Of all of the sub-departments, only Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) ordered ammunition outside the filters discussed above.

The second chart, shown below, demonstrates the total number of ammunition requested by year. After that chart, is the breakdown by percentage of the year against the total amount requested. As can be seen, 58% of all the ammunition that has been ordered, was ordered under the Obama Administration.

2004  0.06%
2005  0.17%
2006  6.80%
2007  1.76%
2008  32.40%
2009  1.00%
2010  19.98%
2011  25.30%
2012  12.51%

The last chart provides the chilling breakdown of just how much ammunition was requested. The grand total? A mere 1.88 BILLION rounds ordered in less than eight years time.

Oddities were discovered during this examination. A solicitation for an emergency allotment of 18,000,000 rounds of .40 S&W ammunition was requested to cover a shortfall of until December of 2009, but no major purchase could be found until December of 2010.

Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition to purchase an “interim supply” of 18,000,000 rounds of .40 Smith & Wesson (S&W) Caliber 135 grain ammunition to bridge the gap in inventory until long term Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts can be put in place. Contract awarded to Federal Cartridge Company of Anoka, MN.

This also provides justification for such large numbers of ammunition purchases, ie, training. However, in order to be more fiscally sound, the ammunition should be a ball type, or full metal jacket, not a jacketed hollow point, where the cost would be anywhere from two to five times less expensive.

To put this in very simple terms: in the 8 years, 5 months, 23 days that have elapsed since the first ammunition order:

• 7 rounds every second would need to be shot in order to use every last round ordered as of today.


• That would be 5.9 rounds per American.


• For every letter in the King James Bible, 608 rounds.


• If you were to put the ammunition in the small 50 round box of .45 ACP, it would be approximately 496,382 cubic feet, or 63 Olympic sized swimming pools.

The question of whether all these ammunition purchases are for an outbreak of civilian riots cannot be answered here. There are too many variables to accurately ascertain the likelihood. Many of those who would fight for the government would place family above duty and thereby weaken the chances of a successful martial law across the fruited plain. In limited areas, yes, martial law could and would be implemented. Those areas unmolested by civil disorder would do best by informing the public to arm themselves for the possibility of malcontents and criminals that may want to stir up trouble.

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But perhaps what this Administration forgets is the most basic of warfare. It is not ammunition nor weapons that decides a war. It is the indomitable human spirit that cries for freedom that decides who wins and who dies. Tyranny may win battles, but Freedom and Liberty will win the war. Every time. Just ask any American, Spanish, English, Frenchman or Pole.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. – Mao Tse-tung 1938

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This article first appeared at Prepper Podcast Radio Network.

Read other articles by James Smith HERE.

James is a father of four and grandfather to four. He and his wife of almost 30 years have been prepping since 2003. They live in a small town, with neighbors as close as 10 feet away and have raised chickens for 2 years covertly on less than 1/5 of an acre. He is a former corrections officer, insurance fraud investigator, and he served in the Navy for 6 years. He currently works for a corporation dealing with the disabled population and their benefits. He is the host of The Covert Prepper show and the Prepper Podcast Radio Network News, both heard on Blogtalk Radio.