I just had a scary thought about Goverment and 3D Printers.

I just had a scary thought about Goverment and 3D Printers. 

With the ability to print gun parts. Print objects that compete with commercial offerings. Subverting IP laws. I think it wont be in a to distant future that the government would declare personal 3d printers as counterfeiting outfits and there for they will be declared illegal.

Our Government hates people who competes in a open and free market. Goverment also hates people who use their god given freedom, to use their rights too own guns and make parts for those guns by any means, including using 3d printers. 

The corny corporate interests also hate anyone who competes with them. Ether in creative world or in the making and inventing of new and neat things. They Always are supporting new regulations to hamper these activities.

These two powers I almost 100% sure will get together and find ways to regulate or out right ban the use of 3d Printers by the normal everyday person. I think they will call it a counterfeiting technology and will be the way they will killed it. They don’t want another tech that opens things to the regular person, like the internet did for us.

Only way it will stay around in some form, is the black market. The same place  were Warez, drugs and other things the government does not want you to have go to and  hide. If we are lucky this will defy the powers that be like the printing press did. Even with government sanctions and regulations.

At left in the foreground, a printer removes a printed page from the press. The printer at right is inking the plate. In the background, compositors are using cast type. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)