Just watched over lunch. It seems like it still takes time to acquire the parts, quite a bit of skill to use a drill press or $1500 dollars for the milling machine, which then takes setup, creating the lower, and the knowledge of constructing the weapon at the end of it.

“- The AR-15 lower is the bigger issue. AR’s basically have 2 sections: the “lower” and the “upper”. The “lower” has the trigger, butt stock, magazine well, and is the serialized part. You have to buy those from gun dealers (generally). The “upper” has the chamber and the barrel, all of the parts subject to major…

I am serious.

I can’t watch this at work, I’ll definitely check it out later though.  Thanks.

I will definitely watch the video this evening. Thanks for the link.

All that money and dude still looks like my dad on a lazy Saturday. I guess they are just like us.

The Scientologist.  Definitely the Scientologist. 

When we’re throwing plastic guns into the trash at the same rate as plastic straws I’m sure that will change.

Apparently what I read was the NPR transcript to an interview done about the court case a couple weeks ago. The above article and multiple articles are implying “Whoah, anyone could just print a gun.” My point was that it’s not that simple. Making a whole gun out of the material used in 3D printers doesn’t work that…

I read somewhere that the guns made out of plastic were only good for 1 shot before they basically fell apart. To make them more sturdy, they have to be milled out of metal. I compare these 3D printed guns to zip guns or other improvised firearms. Everyone has always had access to materials that could make a gun. Few…

The convictions for the assaults were thrown out with the conviction for the rape/assault of the jogger. You can point to them all you want but the cases didn’t hold water without the confessions. Also, as I said, the only mention of the scratch was in the articles you posted. I can’t find any other mention of a…

No, it’s a hack job because it was obviously biased. One of the first sentences calls them thugs. Valid journalism should speak in facts, not feelings. And it’s not my story. I followed the case closely and read the trial transcripts when it was going on. You seem to have gone from, “they were questioned when their…

The boys didn’t have any representation for hours before the confessions that they’re family members were there for. I’m not sure how the presence of family members affects the truth of the confession offered. The ‘license’ you quote was a transit pass that Yusef Salaam used to convince the police he was 16 so they…

Those aren’t direct quotes from the boys.  Those are statements from the police who had custody of the boys.  Without other evidence tying them to the crime, confessions are always suspect.

Based on the the rhetoric from the right, merely having a firearm shouldn’t be an executable offense.  But for some reason whenever someone with a skin color darker than a light taupe has one, it’s fine and dandy that they’re dead over it.

Bullshit.  Range shooting doesn’t often translate to accuracy under stressful conditions.  

You can’t kill someone for what they might do in the future. Only when someone is imminently in danger.  I don’t understand how this fits.

I wish someone on the show had the presence of mind to say this.  The right has a set number of bullshit lines they spew.  It should be the media’s duty to have responses at the ready.

They did. The thing that killed me was that, through sheer assholishness or ignorance, they even tried it in the first place. Even if the case was thrown out, that lady lost days of her life.

Wait, they’re already doing that. Remember the protester that laughed in a legislative session and they jailed her?