Ghost Guns : : Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution
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Introduction: a routine shooting, why should we care about homemade weapons? -- Printing Pandora's box, how the 4th industrial revolution is transforming security -- Teaching iron to fly, artisanal, industrial, and neo-artisanal gunmaking -- The global gun, how DIY small arms are manufactured and used around the world -- The substitution effect, will criminals and terrorists make their own guns? -- Scanning darkly, how weapons screening can detect ghost guns (but fail to stop terrorists) -- Land of the gun, politics and practicalities of DIY guns in America -- "You'd be better off brain-scanning people", how the industrial devolution complicates weapon control -- Surveillance capitalism and "corporate gun control", enter the tech vigilantes -- Un-inventing the wheel, weapons and crime control in a post-industrial age.
"With thorough analysis and balanced reporting, Ghost Guns: Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution is an essential resource for readers seeking to understand the rise of homemade firearms and future options for managing it"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: xxiii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781440865640
1440865647
SUBJECTS
Firearms -- Design and construction.
Gun control -- United States.