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Shall not be infringed

SHALL

If they are that cheap to produce and the parts that abundant, any legislation would be unenforceable. At least with guns you need a basic understanding of machining and probably a lathe to make anything worthwhile, though you could probably make do with a drill. Anyone can assemble electronic components with 5 minutes of instruction and a clear diagram.

>>27947971

With that kind of lightweight, highly portable, and extremely powerful energy,
I'd be too busy using it to fly to the moon to incinerate stuff.

>>27947971
Im already forseeing "sporting use" and "destructive device" type restrictions on them.

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>>27947981
>>27948001
>can't own "armor piercing" rounds for handguns
>restrictions on a bunch of other shit

>>27948009
well, all you need is a tube and a nail to make a bullet go bang, but there are plenty of people too lazy to do that. i wouldn't put it past some neet to cobble a fuel cell, focusing chamber, and operating computer together for a diy energy rifle, but most people aren't going to do that

>>27948045
>sporting use
is hunting with a Tesla cannon humane?

>>27947971
NO. Fed gov in the U.S. already has a mechanism in place to ensure their eventual technological superiority by establishing a precedent that civilians are not allowed to have devices which emit electromagnetic radiation, unless those devices are specifically approved by the FCC. You will notice FCC compliance stickers on literally every consumer grade electronic device sold in the United States.

The European Union has mirror agencies which have already established a functionally similar paradigm on the continent. Great Britian does as well.

I sincerely hope laser guns aren't invented until after the dissolution of the United States and the resulting balkanization of North America, which is the only real hope for liberty for the future. The longer this diseased republic survives, the more the fire of liberty is extinguished in the hearts and minds of her citizens, and the more those citizens are willing to lose for a little more comfort and a little more useless distraction.

If energy weapons are perfected too soon, they will be the weapons used to confiscate ours.

>>27948149
Conventional firearms emit electromagnetic radiation. Visible light is electromagnetic radiation

>>27947971
Unless energy weapons appear as a result of a sudden breakthrough that takes us straight from laser pointers to Star Wars blasters, expect energy weapons to be banned or tightly regulated.

There won't necessarily be a specific law against energy weapons, but there will be a creeping increase in regulation of lasers as the technology to make them smaller and more powerful is developed. Think about all the stuff in the news about people shining lasers at airplanes. Imagine ten years from now there are lasers strong enough to actually blind the pilot from the ground and somebody takes down a jet with one. Or a lunatic lights a bunch of fires with a laser. Or a bunch of kids end up harming/killing themselves with lasers. It will be easy to pass a ban on lasers over a certain power, and the Second Amendment won't apply because they aren't yet actual weapons. When real man-portable energy weapons become a thing, these regulations will already have been in force for years and nobody will think twice about it.

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>>27948182
heat is emr
FCC is more about things that "broad cast" "signals" or can interfere with them
so, that new MASER you've been eyeing is probably going to have more restrictions than your laser, plasma, or tesla rifle

There will never be man portable death rays.

If you understood anything about lasers you would know this.

>>27948149
This makes sense.
Not technically an energy weapon, but what about something like say, a railgun that handles like an M4 but hits like a .50 BMG?