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It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. And as a tangent, I just would add, I would ask people to expand their imagination beyond firearms, especially with additive

manufacturing specifically. Los Alamos National Laboratory has used a machine to produce high

explosives using additive manufacturing. Raytheon has 3D printed, has said it can 3D print roughly 80% of a missile using some of these techniques.

Now obviously these are outliers,

but things are gonna get super weird, super fast.

I agree.

I think.

And I think that you're absolutely right nailing

that one of the big issues that's around all the stuff that we don't really talk about is the limits of arms control and the traditional sense when we look at these new technologies.

About to be in a world where all of that stuff just does,

like all these old methods just don't work anymore, really.

Yeah, and I think fundamentally,

and one of the reasons I chose this topic, which was, I think, at least speaking for myself personally, it was very difficult topic to try to provide a good treatment of that people from all different angles would be able to appreciate something from the book.

But it wasn't just because I am personally a gun nerd myself that I was into it.

It was that I think this issue was one of the earliest and most obvious security relevant canaries in the coal mine

on the security implications of the fourth industrial revolution and the open source revolution.

You can use open source tools increasingly. You have organizations like Raytheon, you have defense

contractors, aviation manufacturers and things like that who have this at the very cutting edge right which

requires capital and skills intensive deployments of these technologies at that cutting edge

but they gain so much in terms of

material science and customizability that to them this really represents a move

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