asciilifeform: iirc they're limited to public servants or folks willing to license themselves as 'museums' (complete with fingerprinting, letters of recommendation from mayor, surprise inspections, ... etc)

asciilifeform: so the suppressors (sop in eu) were banned as something only a 'shady crook' would use

asciilifeform: decimation: this might have to do with the fact that much of what u.s. folks take to the shooting galleries seems to exist for little purpose but to make an impressive 'bang'

asciilifeform: see the 'saw-off' mosin earlier in thread

asciilifeform: decimation: they have this ancient law, where that one part is the only thing that 'counts' as a limited item, and the rest of the weapon can be bought with cash in a shop or even outdoor market

asciilifeform: it isn't the national post

asciilifeform: fedex is, afaik, free to boycott whoever

asciilifeform: '3d printer', for those unfamiliar, is a very costly item. i don't even keep one here, can't justify

asciilifeform: because much simpler even than what they do

asciilifeform: to round off the electrobullet thread, i made this gedankenexperiment up for this just to show what folks like wilson -would- be doing if they were serious ☟︎

asciilifeform: bonus points for the bullet exercise if you can dispense with the 'mold' entirely and form the conical part purely with field gradient in the bath

asciilifeform: (not much seen in reality, due to shockwaves, but doesn't keep aficionados from trying)

asciilifeform: the 'glass bullet' is as nearly as old as the detective story genre.

asciilifeform: if that's what's in your cellar - then yes

asciilifeform: even, e.g., tungsten

asciilifeform: briefly back to the bullet thread: the most interesting thing about the suggested method is that any material can be used, so long as it conducts and behaves reasonably well as aqueous ion

asciilifeform: the concept is meant to address an earlier thread - 'pashtun can make ak but rounds are still from izhevsk'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: have them machined grossly then electrofined << nonono - whole point is to make'em in a cup in kitchen, jungle conditions

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this needs only the most trivial form of electrolytic machining - with ready-made cavity

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, ben_vulpes: incidentally, bullet would be a perfect 'killer app' for electrolytic machining. low mass, touchy geometry

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we already have this. in slow motion

asciilifeform: or at the very least, to provide the justification-furniture when the bans are rolled out

asciilifeform: one could make two or three mental leaps and suppose that his work is for getting ammo banned by usg quicker

asciilifeform: what kind of 'sin' is he meant to tempt 'sinners' into?

asciilifeform: i.e., it no longer means 'where you go to trade money for $goodies' but just 'place you go to dump excess money'

asciilifeform: does 'market' mean something other than it did when i learned engl.?

asciilifeform: '...We have plenty of assassination markets now...' << lol, he said this?!

asciilifeform: who the others are - no idea

asciilifeform: or who the hell would get the other kind

asciilifeform: 'A few years ago, Etsy lifted some of its stricter sales requirements, including a ban on sellers using certain manufacturing techniques and hiring staff...'

asciilifeform: if this is 'intelligent', what's retardation look like ?

asciilifeform: 'According to neighbors and a man who hired the teen to write for his Web site, the Osbourn Park student was quiet in person but exceptionally intelligent — authoring articles on complicated science and technology topics.' (wa. p.) << mega-l0l

asciilifeform struggles to recall the traditional term for the kind of technowankery where folks buy 'pro' tools without any place to use or relevant skill

asciilifeform: iirc we had the 'can you club with it' thread

asciilifeform: (iirc all the m-whatever things are Al but for the barrel)

asciilifeform: as in, anywhere in the thing

asciilifeform: enlarged ak-like thing that takes mosin rounds

asciilifeform: the term, iirc, refers to the one man in a platoon who was actually taught any marksmanship and is expected to aim

asciilifeform is an armchair general and recommends that aficionados seek out the primary sources.

asciilifeform: ru school of thought took, unsurprisingly, opposite tack

asciilifeform: americans took the whole 'golden sniper toilet' thing almost to logical conclusion, with microprocessorized wind&elevation calculators, bullets turned on lathes (!), etc

asciilifeform: yer thinking bourbaki mebbe