On Thursday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris signed executive orders on gun control. Among other things, the orders took aim at so-called "ghost guns."
In particular, the administration targeted 3D-printed guns. The White House considers these guns a threat, and you know what? They're right, and that's the point.
Traditionally manufactured firearms are easy to control. They are produced by companies that have to have factories, employ people, and pay taxes. As such, they have to comply with the law.
That includes laws prohibiting the manufacturing of firearms, should such a law ever come to pass.
Based on how these companies operate, they wouldn't have a choice. They would be shut down if such a law went on the books, and everyone knows it.
3D-printed guns, on the other hand, exist outside of that. I can crank out a lower receiver for anything from a Glock clone to an AR-15 with something I can get from Amazon. I don't have to ask government permission by virtue of an NICS check coming back clean. It's automatic in a lot of cases, and if there's a delay, it's assumed to be clean after three days, but it's still a step you shouldn't have to take.
And that scares people like Biden and Harris.
What they want is for us to have to ask the government, hat in hand: "May I have a gun, if it pleases the crown?"
We have the Second Amendment to explicitly prevent such a thing from happening. If we must ask for permission, then how can we obtain guns for the purpose of resisting tyranny? The state would simply say we can't have them.
It's why so many of us are nervous about universal background checks. At that point, there's a paper trail for where just about every gun in this country is, which is a guide for confiscation should someone feel froggy.
Enter the 3D-printed gun.
These firearms have come a long way from the Liberator model that first gained notoriety. That gun was a single shot, bulky, and not really a viable defensive handgun for some circumstances.
But it represented a threat to tyrants throughout the world.
Now, with models like the FCG-9 (FGC stands for "F*** Gun Control"), which requires no manufactured gun parts, people can arm themselves and be a threat to would-be tyrants.
And that's why Democrats hate them.
The left knows that deep down, they want to make us accept their way of thinking, and they're not overly concerned with killing people to make that happen. Take a look at the violent rhetoric they espouse. Look at the two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump just weeks apart, with them simply shrugging and saying, "Well, what did he expect?"
The existence and possession of 3D-printed guns mean they can't wield tyrannical power over us. Even if they pass every gun control law they want, they can't stop us from arming ourselves and resisting. They can't keep us from building guns to protect this nation and the Constitution itself.
Yes, these guns represent a threat. That's the whole point of them.
