Blog Post 7

Claim Immigrants are taking money and jobs away from U.S citizens.

Premise Claim 1:  According to (Confer,2013)  “Americans are unable to find gainful employment because jobs are being held by non-Americans who have illegally entered our borders unabated and are illegally employed by companies both large and small” (para.2).

 

Premise 2:  According to (Davidson,2013) “Illegal immigration does have some undeniably negative economic effects” (para.4)

 

 

Reference List

Confer, Bob. “Illegal Immigrants Take American Jobs.” Illegal Immigration. Ed. Noël Merino. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. Current Controversies. Rpt. from “Unemployment and Illegal Immigration.” New American (19 July 2010). Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 5 Nov. 2013.

Davidson, A. (2013, February 12). Do illegal immigrants actually hurt the U.S. economy?. The New York Times, p. 4.

 

Blog Post 7: The other triggering event?

The other claim of a triggering event is that it started not with Cody Wilson in the dead of winter in 2012, but with Michael Guslick earlier that same year. First off, his works all predate any files published by Defense Distributed, but the results were rather mixed (Mosbergen, 2012). Senator Steve Israel also started using Guslick’s work as a citation for the Undetectable Firearms Act well before Defense Distributed was well known (Brown, 2012).

 

Sources

Mosbergen, D. (2012, August, 9) Michael Guslick, Amateur Gunsmith, Claims To Have Used 3D Printer To Make Functional Semiautomatic AR-15 Rifle At Home Retrived November 5, 2013, from  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/man-3d-printer-rifle_n_1753513.html

Brown, R. (2012, December 10). The Undetectable Firearms Act and 3D-printed guns (FAQ). CNET News. Retrieved November 4, 2013, from http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57558213-76/the-undetectable-firearms-act-and-3d-printed-guns-faq/

Blog Post 6: The triggering event in the 3D Printing Conflict

When the Liberator and 3D printed lower receiver were released to the public by Defense Distributed, this truly began the legal reforms to cover 3D printed firearms. For example, Governor Steve Israel seeks to add regulations to 3D printed items to the New York SAFE Act(Greenberg, 2013). Governor Israel also seeks to reinstate and expand the Undetectable Firearms Act so that it may include provisions to prevent the printing of firearms (Brown,2012).

Sources:

Greenberg, A. (2013, April 15). Lawmaker Seeks To Extend 3D-Printed Gun Ban Bill To Ammo Magazines And Other Components. Forbes. Retrieved November 4, 2013, from http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/15/lawmaker-seeks-to-extend-3d-printed-gun-ban-bill-to-magazines-and-other-components/

Brown, R. (2012, December 10). The Undetectable Firearms Act and 3D-printed guns (FAQ). CNET News. Retrieved November 4, 2013, from http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57558213-76/the-undetectable-firearms-act-and-3d-printed-guns-faq/