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Weapons & Combat / Re: How Can We Combat Modern Military Equipment/Weapons?
« on: November 06, 2014, 05:30:13 am »Indeed. I brought up that same point in an earlier thread as well. But one mustn't assume things will go well at all. It's best to plan for the worst case scenario for obvious reasons. We should assume that manpower will be few in number. Now, with a fully-featured 3D printer, I definitely think ones options would open up a lot more. With such, all one would need are some plans to put into the computer and all the materials and boom. Full access to any technology we can salvage.
3d-printing is more or less irrelevant for weapons, much less weapons for war or sustained use. The only non-single-shot firearm I've seen printed was a 1911 printed out of a metal powder scintering 'printer', which took several months and cost upwards of $6k. for precision manufacture, you'd need a decent C&C machine and a good knowledge of how to use it. in desperate times, take a page out of the Chechens' book - you can make a gun out of pretty much anything, as long as you can get bullets. corner one of them in his room and he'll make a submachinegun out of the bedframe.
specific to the US though, I have no idea if that'd help in a suppression/martial law situation. police offices get ex-military equipment close to free when the military hits surplus or equipment no longer meets their requirements. I read about a university in San Francisco that bought their campus security team a humvee with anti-IED measures because they could get it for like 2k, and police departments buying up rocket launchers and other heavy weapons.
some people believe that it's a planned method to work around habeas corpus; arming the police with military equipment so that the military don't need to be deployed against the domestic populace, but in reality it's more just a result of extremely irresponsible and excessive defense contracting. I doubt that police would be able to enact large-scale (see: nationwide) suppression operations even in they wanted to, and I suspect that without the conditioning and training the military are subject to, many would simply turn in their uniforms if the alphabet agencies told them to use widespread lethal force.
I'll come back later if this thread is still going; I wanted to write something about the trend of modern weapons trying to reduce accountability and distance the user from actual murder (see: drone operators), but ldap is giving me cancer
CNC.....computer numerical control
