In Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum’s character, Dr. Ian Malcom, utters the iconic phrase, “Life…uh…finds a way.”
Yeah, it’s memeable, but it’s important to the plot of the movie. However, Malcolm could have said the exact same thing about crime and criminals, particularly with regard to getting firearms.
Criminals don’t just shrug when they’re told they can’t have something lawfully. If they were inclined to do so, they wouldn’t be criminals in the first place.
Instead, they start trying to figure out how to bypass the laws. Most of them are kind of morons, to be fair, but it doesn’t take a field of geniuses to come up with at least one or two good ideas, and there are some criminals with enough smarts to figure out how to sidestep whatever regulations you care to name.
Sometimes, it’s just picking up a different weapon, as I noted on Monday with regard to Australia. Those guys used blades and blunt instruments, but some of the bad guys, both there and in New Zealand, aren’t really settling for raiding Mom’s kitchen cabinets for weapons.
Authorities have seized more than 1,000 firearms and gun parts in a crackdown on the spread of illicit weapons in Australia and New Zealand.
The week-long transnational operation led to more than 180 arrests, according to Australian Border Force, and the seizure of 281 privately manufactured firearms and parts, including those made by 3D printers.
In New South Wales, police located multiple 3D printers alongside Glock-style pistols, magazines and 3D-printed holsters, among other items.
A Guardian investigation in September tracked the growing challenges posed to Australia’s gun control regime, including the trade of stolen firearms and the emergence of 3D-printed firearms across the country.
NSW police said they arrested 45 people and seized 518 firearms and firearm parts as part of the operation. Multiple individuals were charged with offences including the manufacture of prohibited firearms without a licence, importing prohibited goods and possessing a digital blueprint for manufacture of firearms – a crime in some states.
“These 3D printed components may look colourful, but they are not toys. Once assembled, they become lethal weapons – entirely illicit and extremely dangerous,” the commander of the state crime command’s drug and firearms squad and national chair of the Illicit Firearms Working Group, Det Supt John Watson, said in a statement. “That’s why we’re targeting the full supply chain, from printers to imported parts.
“Public safety sits at the core of our firearms licensing system. Shooters must be licensed, firearms must be registered, and compliance is non-negotiable.”
Well, it kind of is negotiable if you’re someone who doesn’t care what the law actually says.
Public safety, the name of the game as most anti-gunners tell it, seems to forget that if criminals obeyed laws, the laws against shooting people should be more than sufficient to keep them in check, as would every other law on the books. The fact that they’re criminals tell us that they don’t care.
So while selling this as public safety, all Australia has managed to do, as all gun control does, is make it harder for law-abiding, responsible people to get guns.
Criminals just keep doing what they’re doing because, for the umpteenth time, they’re criminals.
Crime, like life, finds a way.
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