FrontSight wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:32 pm
DispositionMatrix wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:33 pm
The GG CNC mill has been on the market for more than 7 years.
7 years ago there were no "ghost gun" laws on the books; just the basic federal stuff. Since then we have had many very high profile (can't get higher profile than the LV shooting) mass shootings, and dozens of criminals busted with home made guns. I think the political climate is such that they will be under very heavy scrutiny. 7 years ago "ghost gun" was a catchy name that didn't really mean anything. These days "ghost gun" is associated with criminal intent.
At the behest of firearm prohibitionists, yes. The whole point of declaring home-built firearms "ghost guns" was to equate the building of firearms by individuals with crime. This has gone remarkably well for the Democratic/firearm prohibitionist bloc, having been every bit as successful as the VPC's promotion of the term "assault weapon." The police lobby and, predictably, the media have picked up the torch, bleating "ghost gun" every time a criminal is caught with a firearm with a defaced serial number, something that occurred long before anyone dreamed up "ghost gun."
Defense Distributed or the actual developers of the CNC mill might not have done themselves any favors in naming the product, but I'm not apt to be concerned with what it's called and am just impressed, if the video is to be believed, the mill's capability has advanced to the level of being able to mill from a block of aluminum rather than requiring a piece already milled to 80% of being a lower.