3-D printing lets private individuals circumvent gun regulations that the industry lobbied against.

Evidence

The new manufacturing technology elevates the challenges to the management of guns in a society to a new level. As the preceding examples illustrate, without moderation in the nation’s gun culture war or moral restraint in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of guns of mass killing power, not only the gun industry can easily circumvent any new regulations. Private individuals using digital manufacturing technology can now do so. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1236

Categorization

• XREF: Diffusion of control over harmful tools to individuals echoes themes about technology lowering barriers to harm; related to the soundscape book’s point about technological change outpacing regulation.