Are gun designs open source?

From GNU/Linux to GUN/Linux

And here my friends, we can see an exhibit from the United States of America.

freedom is where you might get shot walking your dog.

Tho I support gun ownership, this guy has no business owning a gun

"If you are a [in my perception] a communist, you don't wanna step on my lawn" === "If I don't agree with you, I'll shoot you"

Plus anyone saying "communist states" is definetly fallen victim of right wing propaganda and haven't even take the time to research what communisim is. Even the US left political wing is quite capitalisitic.

Just a bunch of bad "arguments" bagged up with slapsticks words which he doesn't even know the meaning of.

US-americans got the crazy

I want to share software and ideas, not bullets and death. Hard pass.

A lot of the 3d printed designs are.

Guns don't kill people, I kill people when I read EULAs

I knew something was off, I never really could watch his channel for some reason. This is one more hint that my intuition wasn't wrong.

Remember: Always replace EagleOS on your SmartGun with Linux to avoid the NRA's telemetry.

To be fair, enough guns can make any project open source.

The definitive solution to GPL non-compliance

Bahaha

Yes, because the free use of software conflates with wanting everyone (including the lunatics) armed with deadly weapons running around the places you try to live.

These Muricans really have such ignorant view on the world. I doubt they have ever left their hometown, let alone visited actual developed nations with real gun laws.

You do know there are left wing people out there who own guns and go to the range, right? Because when them nationalists show up in their leather boots, knocking on doors, they won't give a damn if you're a pacificist. They gonna go pop-pop-pop.

Learn from the black panthers. If proliferation of guns is the standard, abstaining will only make you - and your children - a juicier target.

But, even if you're anti-guns, there's one more thing.

One talking point you could use with pro-gun people though, even if you're anti-gun...

"So let me get this straight... you're against the government taking away your guns, but for the government taking away your encryption?"

Say it with me now:

THE RIGHT TO ENCRYPT SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

I dont think I'm American enough to understand this. How does wanting people to have freedom to use their systems as they please correlate with everyone being able to own and freely carry weapons that can kill instantly?

Never really liked his channel but wasn't aware of this video until now. What a fuckwit. Has no idea what communism is but keeps saying it when he really means authoritarianism. Says that a gun is "great for children", I'm hoping he meant for children to use...

I don't understand why I need to buy a gun to deal with downstream problems where there is an upstream solution. The reasons he gave for owning any gun are really societal issues. Instead of encouraging everyone to have a private army, why not encourage people to vote for politicians who will fix the upstream problems

There are actually a few open source gun designs, namely designed to circumvent gun control measures by being built from off the shelf parts with limited machining.

The one I've seen most of is the FGC-9 that's being used by rebels in Myanmar to be used in raids against government troops, after which they can be replaced with scavenged conventional small arms.

I read the title before looking at the guy and he looks exactly like the sort of person who would write that title

I also use my software to regularly murder the crap out of hundreds of people.

Oh, wait, that is grand theft auto and battlefield, and neither are open source, what have I done?

What the fuck, how this can even be not a meme…

I went to look for the video and somehow was worse than I had imagined.

My software can kill you and is exploitable by maniacs, so I don't see why this is getting ridiculed. /s

Man, Distrotube is such a fuckin wacko.

Some are kinda, yeah. The AR-15 is for sure, and most 3d printed lowers would be, and iirc gen 3 glocks (I think, because that's what all the 80% and 3d print glock lowers are), and I think colt SAA by now, but many designs are still owned by the original company.

They actually are open source, and there is indeed a lot of material out there to help people with everything they need to build their own. The only part that is illegal to make on your own is the part with a serial number on it, for tracking purposes.

I support free software, but that doesn't mean dangerous offensive software shouldn't be regulated...

A currently viable virus should not be able to distributed freely without any regulation, even when it is licensed under GPL; the fact that viruses can be used for defensive purposes (hacking a hacker's laptop to get ransomware pass code, or hacking scammers to warn victims etc.) also won't change that.

It is the same way with lethal poison, just because it can be used in defensive ways, doesn't mean it should not be controlled.

I watched the video. He says that if you support FOSS you should support guns, but never once advocates for guns to be free.

He says the problem is that politics are tribal, and people are simply in their corner, cheering for their teams - without acknowledging that there are Americans that want different levels of gun control, and there are reasons that people want gun control outside of tribal politics, and there are Republicans/conservatives/gun enthusiasts that have nuanced opinions, and support things like red flag laws and certain gun control policies.

Having the right to have a mass killing device is never required.

They are, much in the same way as 3D printers themselves.

Check out DEFCAD.

Yes, there are open source firearms. there is even 3d printed designs for an MP5 the youtube channel Print shoot repeat showcases a lot of them.

yeah I'm not watching him anymore, not like I did before, but...

You can't install Arch by good sharpshooting skills.

A bullet tends to destroy the drive.

"Guns don't kill people rappers do, from Bristol zoo to B&Q"

OK, Boomer

The author of the Bazaar and the Cathedral, an essay about open source development, wrote a lot about gun rights too, like explaining banning automatic weapons was dumb, as a good shooter would make more damage with a semi automatic.

Alright...

I support free software, so anyone has easy access to great software and the opportunity to create amazing things and make another person's life better.

I also support gun rights, so anyone has easy access to guns and the opportunity to end another person's life.

His arguments are so disingenuous, lol.

Actually though, that seems pretty consistent with my experience on lemmy so far

I just got my restricted possession and acquisition license in Canada (RPAL), which gives me the ability to own firearms and ammo.

It was fascinating to see just how different Canada and US laws are in this regard; and how much less likely a widespread 'unrestricted gun rights' movement is here.

having been around the block pretty recently with shit related to this. And my personal opinions coinciding quite nicely, i'll leave this food for thought. Have a stroll down in the comments section, see whats going on down there :)

There are problems in the gun community. That much i'll say.

You can make a gun out of a bar of soap if anyone's interested. The benefit of the soap route is you can get though older metal detectors. (The new stuff takes a full 3d scan in high detail)

Just in case anyones interested

just ask your fellow yarr friends whether there are "open source" gun designs. I'm sure they'll give you a bit of a rough time for the question, and then immediately point you to the materials required to make illegal guns.

They're completely different amendments though.....

Also software has the harder fight. Cause the trolls rights come from the constitution, while the freedom comes from an amendment.

https://archive.org/details/practicalscrapmetalsmallarmsvol.1-22

here are some FOSS designs that don't require a 3d printer, most 3d models are on odyssee and happy gun smithing to you

EDIT: also completly agree with dt on this one

To answer the title, yes there are open source gun designs. The FGC-9 comes to mind. This is NOT an endorsement to build any of this, I just wateched a Vice documentary on this recently.

Next video: If you support open source you must also support goose-step.

Abstracting the thought process a little: most FOSS projects are done by lone individuals and nobody ever looks at what they’ve done. That seems more in line with a gun. Especially in the insular 3d printed space.

The projects that actually take off have a wider appeal, and are ultimately much more elegant. Therefore the weapon is going to either be a trebuchet or lightsaber.

Unless the firearms manufacturers start making what the clear majority care about, no we don’t need to support gun rights. When they start supporting the right to a wrist mounted trebuchets maybe we’ll listen.

EDIT: Eh, removed my bad half-joke.

And sane gun laws.

FEDpost

I agree with that meme.

"If you are in favor of free software, you are also in favor of computer viruses"