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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: A Highly Dangerous 9-Year-Old Boy A Highly Dangerous 9-Year-Old Boy •Pete’s on vacation this week, so he’s surrendered the keys •How Pete’s 9-year-old nephew soups up his Nerf gun •Then Chris Campbell describes his experiences making a real gun -- and how you can get your hands on one for next to nothing. Baltimore, Maryland August 3, 2015 Chris MayerDear Reader, Brian Maher here, filling in for Pete this week. I normally keep quarters over at Laissez Faire Today, where we dedicate our lives to helping readers pursue lives of freedom in an increasingly unfree world. We show readers things like how to skirt Obamacare, how to protect their finances, how to defend their constitutional rights against an ever-encroaching government, etc. So today, I’m taking The Daily Reckoning for a bit of a detour. Move over oil, move over gold. Move over Greece. Move over Janet Yellen and everything else you normally see in these virtual pages. Yup, we’re taking a joy ride off the beaten path today. Some context comes courtesy of a note from Pete, who’s vacationing in 1%-er territory this week. (Little did he realize he gave me an idea for this issue)... “Greetings from sunny Hyannis Port! “The maker movement is alive and well here in Cape Cod. I awoke this morning to my 9-year-old nephew, Dennis… scattered plastic… and basic tools across the kitchen table. “It’s called making ‘mods,’ short for modifications. Apparently, there’s a subculture of people who take existing products, like toy Nerf guns, and improve them by designing their own improvements. “‘It had a 2 kg spring,’ Dennis told me, holding up the assault rifle in the picture. ‘It shot darts around 40.58 feet per second. But the new 5 kg spring I bought shoots 88.44 feet per second.’ “He bought the pieces online for $10 from a company called Orange Mod Works, based in Houston. They say on their site that they’re two guys operating out of a garage. “The whole thing reminds me of the email I just sent to our readers this Saturday about the administration’s move to limit access to certain types of guns and what people can do to get around it. (I like writing a P.S. each day, so you can republish it today for folks if you want.) The government is not going to be able to stop this movement -- for kids or adults. “‘I’ve been researching online how to make my gun better,’ Dennis explained to me. Here he is with his dad watching another 9-year-old on YouTube walk them through taking apart the gun, replacing the parts and reassembling it: Peter's nephew assembling a modded Nerf gun “These people who record the ‘mod’ instructional videos on YouTube are like minicelebrities. They have a million views. “Some people are becoming so good at ‘mods’ that they’re being shot by police who don’t realize the guns are fake. Addison told me that New York state banned kids toy guns altogether. Apparently, the cops shot 33 people holding modified toy guns. Eight of them died. “Dennis seemed to know about it. ‘Well, yeah,’ he told me in response, ‘that’s why you don’t point it at people. And only shoot in certain safe areas.’ Peter's nephew holding Nerf gun parts “Back in the ’70s, it was the guys playing with the early computers that made our future. Just imagine what the world will look like 20 years from now… when Dennis is 29. “Anyway, I’m off to the beach with the latest Gloom Boom & Doom Report in tow. Send a hello to our readers for me…” You just did, Pete. And Pete’s nephew represents the future -- the decentralization of information. The government can’t stop it, even though it’ll fight like the devil trying. Sure, we’re talking about a Nerf gun here. But it’s not just limited to toy guns. You can find information about building your own real-life, honest-to-Betsy gun online. Not some piece of junk, either. I’m talking about a finely crafted precision weapon that shoots laser-straight. Over and over. (More on that in a second.) And the government hates it... This is the sort of thing that’ll put the gun grabbers into DEFCON 1-level rage. What do those folks live for? Control. And what does this type of information take away from them? Control. And did you know… That an executive order by Obama has put in motion an update to the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) regime that would make emailing somebody details or descriptions of a gun the same as sending the real thing? For real. The NRA put out a release saying: “This latest regulatory assault, published in the June 3 issue of the Federal Register, is as much an affront to the First Amendment as it is to the Second. “Your action is urgently needed to ensure that online blogs, videos and Web forums devoted to the technical aspects of firearms and ammunition do not become subject to prior review by State Department bureaucrats before they can be published.” So let’s chuck the First Amendment into the fire as long as we’re torching the Second. I’m no constitutional scholar, but maybe the Fifth, too (right to privacy). Three for the price of one! Chris Campbell, managing editor of Laissez Faire Today, has been all over this issue. And he’s figured out how to outfox the government snoops who are trying to undermine our constitutional rights. I’ll let him tell you all about it in a second, below... Regards, Brian Maher for The Daily Reckoning Poster Comment: A souped up nerf gun is a dangerous weapon - NOT! Let's hope they do not finagle a Constitutional Convention since the result might be terrifying. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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