"It's not censorship when the national security and public safety are at stake." Every dictator's excuse ever.

Oh no, we don't want to ban books. ...Just THAT book.

Day 3,004 of not getting shot by a 3D printed gun

"But now we have AR-15s and semi-automatic weapons." This sentence made it pretty clear that this guy knows very little about firearms.

(brings up the Anarchist Cook Book) Politician: We can't because the genie is out of the bottle. (is shown active sites with 3D printed gun blueprints) Politician: We need to put as much of the genie back into the bottle as we can. Something's wrong here...

“You shouldn’t be able to make guns in your basement” well too bad because you can make a gun out of almost anything. Prisoners have made guns while in their cells.

1:30 "It's not censorship when *we* do it"

"Nobody should be able to make guns in their basement" Oh okay... ban tools, steel and metal crafting i guess... "Sir you are under arrest for posessing the skils to make a gun"

"It is not censorship when national security and public safety are at stake" Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (One might say that those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither and shall lose both.)

A 3D printer costs a lot more than a quality gun. And is more complicated to operate. - Keep spreading the fear to stay in power.

"there is enough guns already" Me-*triggers in American.*

Plans for firearms have always been available. The ability to mfg at home, has always been available... This is nothing new...

The reality is. Anyone with a basic knowledge of how firearms work and a little engineering skill, can make a firearm! It's actually quite easy!

Government: "Let's violate their first amendment rights to limit their second amendment rights."

"Its not censorship when the national security and public safety are at risk." 😳

but without a 3d pirinter u could still make a gun without one, by hand

The government has the responsibility to defend and protect our rights - not seek to limit or remove them. Whomsoever seeks to limit or remove a right is properly defined as "Enemy, Domestic."

"It's not censorship when the national security and public safety are at stake." AKA "Censorship is not censorship when it's for the "greater good""

"Now we have ar-15's and semi automatic weapons" 😂😂

Put the genie back in the bottle? On the internet?? GOOD LUCK LOL

Solution: revert technology Problem: you can't revert technology Solution: live and let live Problem: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Stossels right banning these files is like banning the Anarchist Cookbook. That politician doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

The Soviet Union justified their tyrannical rule by citing defense of its national interest.

I love how Stossel does interviews. Hes always on the opposite side of who every he interviewing.

1. Terrorist: One who spreads terror or fear. 2. Democratic Senator creates fear around information that has not affected anybody. 3. Reread point 1.

John Stossel I'm glad you exist. You have this amazing ability to elicit the tomfoolery of humanity out of these people you interview. We really are the blind leading the blind aren't we.

I love how john stossel cuts the two interviews together, and has them basically respond to one anothers statements. It cuts out a lot of filler and is very smooth. Whoever is editing yall are killing it.

People have been making guns long before 3D printing.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin Before background checks and the NFA, mass shootings were rare, extremely rare compared with the large restrictions gun owners face today. In fact crime was a lot less back then and rather than 300 people shot at a concert you had John Dillinger robbing banks. More laws does not help.

Second Amendment to the United States Constitution- "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be INFRINGED." INFRINGED - "act so as to limit or undermine (something); encroach on. synonyms: undermine, erode, diminish, weaken, impair, damage, compromise; limit, curb, check, place a limit on, encroach on, interfere with, disturb, disrupt."

You can have my 3D printer when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.

"Now we have AR-15s, and semi-automatic weapons" I got a mercedes, I also have a Benz.

*When the government wants to censor 3D printed pistol but not the anarchist cookbook.* 🤡🌎

It just shows our legislators are toddlers. No clue about what they are legislating!

“There are enough guns already” Says who? Why do you have the authority to decide that? And what’s the magic number? These are called rights, not privileges.

A fact I have always appreciated of John Stossel is that he asks provocative questions which lead to the viewers to think independently. He doesn't just push around questions which ultimately lead to an answer he desires. The videos are interesting, informing and thought-provoking. Most journalists nowadays just portray a biased perspective of a certain topic, whereas Mr Stossel comments on topics but lets the viewer make his own decision. We need more journalism like this.

I can make a blunderbust with some pipe and wood. Books in 1768 taught you how to make homeade muskets. Let the people govern themselves.

Aww, well thats nice that Massachusetts voted in a "special person" into congress. Give him some crayons

Goddamn! Nice piece there Mr. Stossel! Glad to still see you around old boy. Awesome to see some 20th century style reporting again!

I miss the days when stories like this were balanced. It let the viewer decide what position to take. Well done John!

I had very little interest in guns until "they" started talking about banning them (again). I didn't care about bumpstocks until... I didn't care about 3D printers until... Is this a marketing scheme?

It's not about people safety... it's about more power to the already powerful government.

"it's not censorship when the nation safety is at stake." Literally directly quoted from this dude. Unbelievable.

I love how they are so scared of 3D printed guns and yet I can make a more stable and reusable gun out of metal piping in an afternoon. Making guns is not hard, and it's my god-given right to defend myself however I see fit.

Big deal. You can make a gun out of almost anything. You can legally own a cannon in most states and no one cares. Plus many guns are already made out of plastic, go to a gun store and look.

I will build and do what I want, and I don't need the guberments permission to do so.

I've seen youtubers make guns out of scraps. I forgot his name, but one youtuber designed his own semi-auto(test fired too) and gun traps. Memory is bad. Something like weapons designing.

That representative from MA sure has some really consistent and well formulated principles on anything

Plastic gun that can shoot limited amount of rounds before breaking down, which also requires you to have not-so-cheap 3d printer, also programs and resources and some brain not to F it up. Gov: national and public security are at stake. Give me a break.

If we are afraid of certain risky people getting their hands on a gun, those people should not be freely walking around in society.

I love this channel, you have no stance and you interview two people on both sides. This is real journalism.

These politicians think a criminal will invest in a hundred or even thousands of dollars 3d printer, download the files, lean how to use the printer, print the parts, clean them up (filing, sanding etc) so they fit, assemble them according to the schematic (assuming the criminal lowlife can even READ a schematic and is sober enough to do so, not drunk or high)... This goes on my list of things no one should worry about unless they are foolish. I think these people just hear the word gun and their brain jumps out of their skull and hides under the bed....

Its not censorship, we are just keeping information from being published. I mean, we are going to start doing that with your words anyway, no person should be able to have a gun, or call a man a women..its evil. Period.

Mr Stossell, you are the last true honest journalist. We need someone with your mentally to be our president.

The right to print a 3D gun is someone exercising their right to have less fingers. It has always and still is legal for an individual to make their own firearm in the US. These people are trying to get 3D printed guns made illegal so it will give them precedence to go after firearms made from 80% kits and firearms made from scratch.

I remember looking at the anarchist cook book in my middle school library back in 1979.

A gun is simply an explosion in a contained area that forces a projectile in the direction you are aiming. You can't stop people from making that.

You need a 10k printer to even make 3d printed gun that will work well

I really appreciate how he plays devils advocate with whichever side. Its amazing

John Stossel is a gem. That politician got wrecked with a couple questions.

When the people use fear to prove a point put on your skeptic hat, cause somethings not right.

I don't think there is. a federal law against making your own gun, could be wrong. Making a zip gun is easier than 3D printing one and it's more reliable. EDIT: That politician is an idiot. ”the genie is already out of the bottle with the anarchist cookbook” then when Stossel shows him that prints are easily accessible ”lets put as much of the genie back in the bottle”.

"It's not censorship if its in the public safety?" What?! That's what censorship is always used for... Not to mention the contradictory "genie out of the bottle"

3:13 massive respect for using the proper terminology.👊👍

I guess I won't post my CNC Coughing-Hillary-Head Blunderbuss project files.

Insta-gun sounds like a gun sharing app

Whenever some fool says "AR 15s and semi automatic weapons" that's as good of an excuse as any to check out of the argument. You may as well try to explain to a toddler why carrots are good for them. All they hear is "blah blah blah, sugar, something something, food".

I had no idea that genies and bottles had sooooo much to do with guns

If the people who pretend to worry about 3-Dprinted guns had any experience with 3-D printing, they'd know how laughable this is.

People been making guns without a 3D printer already just look it up on KZfaq

Massive understatement of the complexity involved in printing something like this for the average human being.

Fun fact. According to us federal law you can make any weapon for yourself as long as it doesn't violate the us federal firearms act. Short version, no bombs, no full auto, no burst fire, no chemical agents. So, if you can buy it legally you can make it legally. Trying to limit or prevent 3d printed weapons is against current federal law. These politicians need to be ousted and never allowed back in office.

Yes weapon tree has changed but tyranny is always the same

LMAO... Good luck with banning guns. Because anyone who passed High School Physics, and has a drill press, sheet metal brake, and wire welder in his garage, can build a perfectly functional sub-machine gun at home, from scratch, in about 4 hours. And that's a fact. MachOverspeed

“You shouldn’t be able to make a gun in your own basement.” You already could, way before 3D-printing existed! It’s called a lathe and drill press!

This would be a law protecting the bottom line of gun manufacturers

Man, I need to get a product out there that can be banned. "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imaging" - Obi-Wan Kenobi

Rep. David Linsky is a fool.

0:45 she's totally not wearing a bra 😁

That politician couldn’t keep his story straight with the simplest of questions.

This is horrible! We need to ban semi-fully automatic assault 3D Printers.

But Rep. Linsky, check it out, you can download it right now! What! 😲 Put the Genie back in the bottle! 😄😄😄

As much as I HATE TO SAY IT... you can't ban this. People can just make it up in the CAD program again.

Good god.. Thanks, John. Keep fighting for us.

I WISH 3D Printing was just one button but it's far more work than that.

"Let's put as much of the Genie back in the bottle as possible" only a politician could say something that DUMB !

I had high concerns for this also until I realized : 1. You can make guns at home without a 3D printer. Using a 3D printer makes your gun making more traceable. 2. Illegal weapons coming across the border and through our ports is a bigger threat to society than people making guns at home 3. Like with any other DIY, unless you have a skill set, or a similar aligning skill set, you won't be able to put together a functioning gun. 4. Most content data, internet activity, is currently being tracked by government agencies( brought to you by the PATROIT ACT).

"Now we have AR-15s and semi-automatic guns" Let me help clue you in on a little hint: Those two things? They're functionally the same thing. 1 trigger pull = 1 bullet fired. That's literally what semi-automatic means. That's all AR-15s, that's all pistols, those are all legally obtainable firearms within the US. The whole "Oh oh but AR-15s" argument is a non-starter and disingenuous because the vast overwhelming majority of gun crime, gun deaths, and mass shootings happen with pistols. Only a very small fraction of them occur with rifles. It's also a disingenuous argument for that reason. The fact is also, even if we as citizens conceded that ground and said "sure, ban rifles" statistically as a matter of historical accuracy the vast majority of gun deaths, especially in the case of mass shooting which they choose to focus on, is committed with pistols. So by a matter of statistics, it wouldn't be even remotely effective in stopping mass shootings nor gun death nor gun crime period. So it's a disingenuous argument to say you only want to ban AR-15s. It's a gateway argument to open the door to further suppression and removal of the 2nd amendment right. That's their goal fundamentally because, as I just stated, the overwhelming majority of gun deaths and gun violence are done with handguns, not "AR-15s" or rifles. Now that we discussed the statistics, even the "moral" emotional argument behind it is, itself, immoral. They make the argument that "removing guns from society is necessary to stop bad people and that's worth giving up that right." Well hold on a second, so you're for the removal of the rights of the overwhelming majority because there's a very minuscule fraction of society that commits gun violence and mass shootings? Do we ban knives then? You're far more likely to get stabbed with a knife than shot. Do we ban cars? There's already a precedent set and shown that people use vehicles to commit acts of terrorism, running over large groups of people. Even more, people abuse alcohol and cause harm/kill people when they drive. Guess it's time to reinstate Prohibition? No, of course not and that precisely the point. You don't punish the rights of the majority of citizens because people misuse something. If that's your logic and your motive, to ban anything that can be used as a weapon, then home improvement and general Do-It-Yourself stores should be banned. Knives should be banned, forks too. If you're crafty enough you could gouge out someone's eye with a spoon, guess we can't have those either. It's an obviously absurd proposal and that's why the argument against guns isn't a logical argument. I could argue, in detail, on top of all this the Constitutional reason for why we have the 2nd amendment but you can point out the disingenuous and facetious nature of the argument just by pointing out their lack of understand of what firearms are and aren't legal, what semi-automatic means, the reality that you can never stop people who genuinely want to cause harm to others, or the fact that 2A exists because the founders of this country realized that any government has the potential to become corrupt and infringe on the rights of the people. That's why out of ALL of the amendments that the 2nd amendment explicitly states that it shall NOT be infringed.

This is OLD news. You can already make guns in your basement. It just requires a bit more technical skill. As for the "It's more complicated than 'download, print, shoot' " argument, that's NOW. Printers will get better.

"You can't ban lawful information from other citizens"

My thinking is this (short version) "Bad people are going to do bad things no matter what the L-A-W is". A Good man/woman with a gun is our best defense. If there were NO guns, people would complain about something else. I know of NO perfect solution. .

"ITS NOT CENSORSHIP IF WE SAY SO!!"

Where's all the 3d printed gun violence we were warned about?

Why didn’t government fix education and healthcare first?

This fear is just ignorance. Who really owns 3D printers. They are still pretty expensive. And the average American can not afford the expense, and don't want it. Most people would not have a use for it. There would need to be way more uses for the printer, before people start buying them.

Interesting that it was conveniently ignored that most if not all of these guns REQUIRE metal parts to function. The only 100% plastic gun fired 1 round. After that it was damaged enough it could never fire again.

Question, do you have a phone? Your battery can be used as a bomb simply by damaging it. So should you ban batteries? Do you have flour? Well you can turn that into a bomb (dust explosion) so should we ban flour?

The machine in the start wasn't a 3d printer lol

I want Nothing to do with a printed Gun, but I only decide for myself and not for others. If they want one, Have At It. I'm in favor of No Weapon Bans, Ever

Representative Linsky would shit his pants if he seen what can be done on a CNC machine and how many people have the skills and abilities to make a gun that’ll shoot a fly off a cows back out of thousand yards.