Ghost guns : hobbyists, hackers, and the homemade weapons revolution /
Tallman, Mark A.,
Ghost guns : hobbyists, hackers, and the homemade weapons revolution / Mark A. Tallman. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 232 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
9781440865657 1440865655
2020006847
Firearms--Design and construction.
Gun control--United States.
Armes �a feu--Conception et construction.
Armes �a feu--Contr�ole--�Etats-Unis.
Firearms--Design and construction
Gun control
United States
TS535 / .T35 2020
683.4
Ghost guns : hobbyists, hackers, and the homemade weapons revolution / Mark A. Tallman. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 232 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
9781440865657 1440865655
2020006847
Firearms--Design and construction.
Gun control--United States.
Armes �a feu--Conception et construction.
Armes �a feu--Contr�ole--�Etats-Unis.
Firearms--Design and construction
Gun control
United States
TS535 / .T35 2020
683.4