What NOT to Carry On
Printable non-lethal grenade by Beardface
As soon as I saw this printable non-lethal grenade by Beardface, I immediately thought… There is NO way any self-respecting TSA agent or air marshal would ever let you board a plane with such a thing. There is simply nothing you could say to anyone in an airport that would be soothing enough to make them forget you’ve got a grenade-shaped object in your luggage. Yes, with great power comes great responsibility.
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7 Comments so far
Sergio Oehler
IMHO, Thinginverse must not allow any kind of weapon to be published. what this kind of object contributes to the world or “make it awsome” ?
MakerBlock
@Sergio Oehler: Okay – but you have to admit this isn’t a weapon – it’s just a plastic object in the shape of a weapon. I guess, my question is, where do you draw the line?
GASOH
I would say that the line should be drawn when the object shown is purposely designed as a weapon (and has no other function). This PLASTIC grenade replica as shown is about as dangerous as any other similarly sized object of the same density. IMHO it is only the SHAPE that some would find threatening.
Sergio Oehler
@MakerBlock – You got it, it is not easy to draw the line ! Again ,IMHO .
jwnavagus
Weapons should never be allowed on http://www.thingiverse.com. They have never lead to anything good such as:
ending of slavery
freedom from communism
freedom from socialism
freedom of people to choose to support open sourced hardware and software
MeHoo
I disagree entirely.. OPEN SOURCE is just that. Open. They should be able to post anything. If I need a prop gun for a short film I’m creating on my lunch-money budget, and I can print a replica of a firearm to use in black ABS for pennies, that’s way better and safer than me using a real firearm. I also play airsoft, and the idea to create new modifications to my rifles and prototype them out is awesome. So when someone posts up the AR15 block already made to spec, that just saved me tons of time that I don’t have to create the base platform in order to make my mods.
I think your thinking ends up with banning metal shops from selling metal because you can sharpen it and make a weapon to hurt people.
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Weapons are inert until someone uses them to hurt others.
The files on thingiverse are inert until someone uses them to do something stupid.
I’d personally rather see things like all of the pointless iPhone files be banned.. what does an iphone flyswatter case really add to the community?
Like he said.. where do you draw that line?
Pete Prodoehl
Required reading: http://blog.tsa.gov/2009/07/can-i-take-my-hand-grenade-on-plane.html and http://blog.tsa.gov/2009/10/grenades-refresher-course-on-checkpoint.html