Open Source Guns or the Liberator Mk II

The Wiki Weapon, an idea to open source and share designs for 3D printable firearms. Where information freedom meets self defense freedom.



Borepatch says it well:

Freedom is by its very nature, Open Source. Personally, I find rich irony in seeing how people who back in the day thought themselves to be True Revolutionaries are horrified when they see something truly revolutionary. I'm not sure that I'd every want to shoot one, but the idea that I could if I really needed to.

And yes this contrasts with Google's view on arms and the global distribution therein here.

Via JayG who notes what this means for the world and the antis

The ramifications of this project are staggering, and will most likely outpace legislation. Owning a 3D printer and a CAD program is hardly "constructive possession, and it's hard to see how having plans for a pistol - even with the CAD program and printer - would constitute same, even for a prohibited person. Being able to quickly, cheaply, and easily produce firearms by the thousand - tens of thousands, or maybe even hundreds - may very well be the lever that forces us to reckon with the person that misuses the tool rather than the tool itself.



This project makes real what we on the pro-rights side have been saying for decades: Any person bent on ill intent can get a firearm at any time. Those that will do harm will not be stopped by any laws made by men; at the very best they might be delayed. Putting artificial barriers to firearm ownership only hurts those that need not be regulated - the good people - and allows the evil people to thrive.



Knowing that anyone, at any time, anywhere, might have a simple gun on their person is fantastic protection from goblins - and out-of-control governments.

Also the "ironic" part if this technology is that countries and states that actually respect gun rights would find this technology to be a minor disruption. As the general citizen can already purchase and carry a firearm.

Those states where the general public cannot however....

But this shows the core idea that liberty is liberty.

Google Going after your guns?

Maybe. Maybe.

Google tracking the "global arms trade"

Just check out that first paragraph: a direct comparison of violent deaths and civilian held arms.

And then the direct comparison of the illicit arms trade and the legitimate arms trade.

Also... look at this head desk:

You can see, for example, that the scale of the global trade in ammunition rivals the scale of trade in actual weapons, an insight underexplored by policymakers today in conflict prevention and resolution.

Really? You didn't realize that such arms needed ammunition? And that's gotta be purchased and shipped too? Especially if, you know, the weapons are going to be used? Confidence inspiring.

And yeah google's global reach. Not ominous at all. I guess this is the good kind of "corporate money" being spent to influence governments.

Given all this BS, and the other Google crap, I should move to a different service.

The Kriss Smile is very real.

Welp, something came in last night. Something I'd been wroking towards but had been keeping under wraps.

This:

I had decided to go with the pistol version of the Kriss. And then took the sight off of a previous weapon.

Compared to the Kriss my AR45 pistol feels bulky, clunky, and slow. The AR45 having a 9 inch barrel might be more accurate. But the Kriss is, despite the price, acutally very simple. Being a very robust blowback design.

And I just got back from the range. Put a hundred Sellier & Bellot through it and fifty of my handloads. Didn't have any faults. Very low recoil and very accurate. Here's the target from my first outing with it:

Both the irons and the sights that came with it work very well. That target is from 25 yards to 5 yards. And both the 13 round magazines and the 25 round magazines worked without a hitch. The whole gun preformed very well. The trigger takes a bit getting used to, having that long transfer bar to the reversed hammer. I will say that the charging handle is a bit hard with the spring pressure, but that's mostly the manual of arms.

The Kriss is a bit of a strange weapon to get used to. The controls are very accessible, even for a southpaw but they are placed in odd spots. One real nice thing is the charging handle has a press check feature which is really convenient.

And the Kriss also has a compartment inside the grip where you can put spare batteries and other odds and ends.

As for the Kriss grin, that grew as I got comfortable with the weapon. And by the last 25 when I was shooting steel pepper poppers it was ear to ear.

So yes, Robb Allen is right. The Kriss Smile is real.

The Mysteries of Mr A

So Mr A was laughing at bumperstickers he saw at work.

And most of the ones he was mocking were the eye-rolling family values tripe. Odd that he didn't mention any of the ones pointing out fiscal irresponsibility.

But then he ended with this bit. The one he thought was the most funny:

Haha here's a good one:
Democrats Think The Glass is Half Full
Republicans Think The Glass is Theirs

I didn't get to ask him about it. So I'm left wondering if he thinks it's good because he agrees with it, or if he thinks it shows how dumb republicans are.

Either way it shows a collectivist bent. Where the idea of a Republican daring to claim ownership is noteworthy to him.

Mind this is from a man that despite being in the "wealthy" tax bracket steadfastly refuses to voluntarily pay his far share, and then brags about how once tax rates are raised on "the rich" he'll hire the best accountants to minimize what he pays.

Because it's not your glass, it's the people's glass. Unless you bought the glass with your own money and support the Public Glass Mandate, then it's okay to have your own glass.

Rampages, Math, and what You can do about it

Everyone else has been linking it, and I might as well get in.

Davi Barker does a good survey of shooting rampages and compares the number of victims in attacks stopped by the police versus those stopped by a regular citizens.

With 14 incidents stopped by police with a total of 200 dead that’s an average of about 14.3. With 15 incidents stopped by civilians and 35 dead that’s an average of 2.3.

The first point I want to draw your attention to is that roughly half of shooting rampages end in suicide anyway. What that means is that police are not even in a position to stop most of them. Only the civilians present at the time of the shooting have any opportunity to stop those shooters. That’s probably more important than the statistic itself. In a shooting rampage, counting on the police to intervene at all is a coin flip at best.

Second, within the civilian category 10 of the 15 shootings were stopped by unarmed civilians. What’s amazing about that is that whether armed or not, when a civilian plays hero it seems to save a lot of lives.

Important lessons there. One: by the time the police get there there's good odds that the attacker will be dead by his own hand or have simply stopped. Two: Fighting back is better than freezing and dying. No matter how you're armed, it will help. Three: Carry your damn guns.

Go to the link. Read it all.

If you live in the Houston area do not do go Tactical Firearms in Katy Texas

The proprietor Jeremy Alcede has decided that selling out your rights is worth trying to goose his bottom line.

Jeremy Alcede of Tactical Firearms, Katy, TX has decided that a ban of online ammo sales is just peachy with him. After all if that happens people will have to buy from him.

I think anyone from the west of Houston can easily find another place to take their business.

Link from Tam who advises you to spread the word.

Fauxcahontas Barbie: Math is Hard!

Actually, Elizabeth warren thinks math is very easy.

Step 1: US be more like China
Step 2: 1 Trillion more every year in "infrastructure" spending.
Step 3: Profit Err, betterment for the proletariat and the noble servants of the masses.

Yes, once again we have a progressive complaining as to why the US can't be more like China. And that's in an ad designed to make you want to vote for her!

The NY Sun does some deconstruction.

The first problem is mathematical. U.S. gross domestic product is about $15 trillion a year. Increasing infrastructure “investment” to the 9% Chinese level that Ms. Warren cites would mean an additional $1 trillion a year in government spending. That’s an immense spending increase. To put it in context, the entire federal government spent about $3.6 trillion in 2011, on revenues of about $2.3 trillion.

Where would this money come from? Not tax increases, right? Ms. Warren has already reportedly promised nearly a trillion dollar tax increase, spread over ten years, by raising the estate tax, imposing the Buffett Rule, and letting the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning $250,000 a year or more. But that money, she has said, would go toward deficit reduction. If Ms. Warren really wants to spend $1 trillion a year more on infrastructure, she’d need to eliminate all national defense spending ($705 billion) or all Social Security spending ($730 billion) and then find another more than quarter trillion dollars. Or else she’d have to go on the biggest borrowing or taxing binge in American history.

Double the amount the US is in the hole every year? Sounds about right!

China is able to spend so much on infrastructure because it’s an un-free country. It lacks the rule of law that lets American community groups wage legal and political battles against big government projects. Ms. Warren may protest that when she’s talking about “infrastructure” she mainly means maintaining existing roads and bridges, not building brand new projects that flatten urban neighborhoods or destroy scenic rivers. But that’s not what’s happening in China.

Remember that. In their own words, the Progressives wish the US were more totalitarian, they wish the State had even more power and less accountability. They see themselves as, at best, wise rules over a slack-jawed populace in need of constant control and uniform messaging, lest their baser urges get the better of them.