https://reason.com/2025/08/08/making-the-world-freer-with-homemade-guns/
Making the World Freer with Homemade Guns
- DIY firearms aren’t just an end-run around the law; they represent a libertarian political movement.
J.D. Tuccille | 8.8.2025 7:00 AM
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Recently, while touting gun seizures in a city that has some of the most authoritarian gun laws in the United States, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch lamented, “the number of illegal guns that we’ve seen used in New York City has exploded since 3D technology has come about.” She’s not alone. Homemade guns are increasingly sophisticated and available almost everywhere. That’s a good thing.
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Summarizing events at June’s MoneroKon conference in Prague, an annual meeting devoted to “privacy-enhancing technologies and distributed systems,” security expert Zoltán Füredi described a presentation by the pseudonymous Zé Carioca, designer of the recently unveiled Urutau, a 9mm select-fire firearm designed to be constructed with a 3D printer and components purchased at any hardware store. Rather than focus on his creation, Zé Carioca instead championed 3D-printed firearms as companions to cryptocurrency in challenging the power and reach of governments.
“His speech blurred the lines between technology, ideology, and extreme libertarian politics,” commented Füredi. He added of the speakers’ message, “Just as the freedom to transact (via cryptocurrency) is now seen as a fundamental human right, so too should be the right to bear arms—worldwide.”
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The (God given) Human Right to self-defense is essential the embodiment of the little L libertarian First Principle of Self-Ownership. If we don’t “own” ourselves, then who does?
Somewhere in the Libertarian An-Cap literature is the recognition that “rights” are: (a) something we have all agree that every human has; or (b) those things that an individual will die defending. To me, either definition is acceptable. There might be be another criteria around somewhere that a “right” is whatever and whenever a human can asset and defend it. Not so sure about that; do babies and fetuses have rights?
Interesting that the gun grabbers (i.e., politicians and bureaucrats) can NOT keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Sometimes they even get into their “jails”. And, like drugs, they can keep humans from finding way to get what they want.
So too, guns are merely tools and as such can’t be kept away from any human who is motivated and wants one.
I’m interested in how the WWII “liberator” handgun was used to arm the Nazi resistance. Why is today’s Gooferments beginning to look like Nazi Germany? (Remember the Japanese internment?) Tyrants and their regimes can not exist if the population just refuses to be terrorized. Ghost guns are the perfect solution to prevent that. Even here in the USA.
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