Through competition, product prices can be reduced as cost of making them plummets due to removal of paid human labor, which may have a huge factor on costs of products and and usually consists 50-90% of cost of services in developed countries, so the net purchasing power parity of a society does not degrade in the longer term.

As low wage factory workers may not be as expensive, white collar, expert and administrative workers and consult services may cost company a major share of it's expenditures, and cutting these off will allow a major leap in productivity and price competition. Most of the time, the worker that gets paid way too much only for repeating stuff they have read from books themselves, so AI can be well capable of offering similar expertise, with the improvement of removing the human error.

It's a cat and mouse game forever, but it only needs to create an effective enough deterrence the enemy faces a second strike retaliation problem. So you can nuke your adversary and get some warheads through, but the adversary can turn you into full glass desert with zero chance of survival. You know, there are more convenient methods to commit a suicide.

Nukes need a very precise detonation cycle to go off, there is zero chance of nuke going off no matter what you shoot it with, as long as it itself does not produce energy densities that can ignite a fusion reaction.

Lol that's basically what orcs claimed was happening in Ukraine. "Murricans were developing a virus in Ukraine that kills only ruskies omg invade asap".

I remember reading multiple threads about this subject and it was concluded that you'd need practically all the nukes humanity has ever produced to actually make an effective tsunami. The earthquakes that create tsunamis will first of all create a permanent change in volume, while nukes create a void, that will very quickly collapse, or if it bursts the ocean's surface, most of the energy is dissipated upwards. Also, the energy released even in small earthquakes is determined in gigatons or even teratons of energy.

Possible? Yes, with technological advancements.

Expensive? Extremely.

Options like ultra-high velocity kinetic launchers and directed energy weapons deployed in both space and ground could be capable of intercepting high number of vehicles.

As aid, US will not publish any of the technology it manages to keep secret, because in case shit gets real, it can give huge advantage. Not only that, but best way to slow down arms race is to not create need to develop new weapon systems, and appearing seemingly weak is beneficial in this context.

Like I stated, assassination is another matter compared to combat or self defense. If you get one shot and miss it, you are essentially going full melee. With automatic gun, you have a lot bigger margin of error.

Single shot assassin guns are a totally different animal than combat weapons. The guy could have lodged a diy grenade at Abe, worse yet, do it Middle East style.

From that perspective, any machine or tool will have to be rendered obsolete, and frankly, that includes everything, starting from basic machine tooling to a blacksmith's hammer or a casting mold. This phenomenon is called "dual use", and if it gets too common, it just loses it's purpose. Also, restricting certain products will only cause market to figure out a method around it.

Pressure-bearing parts are not 3D printed, never, unless you've got a laser sintering machine at your disposal, which currently cost +100k and beyond, and the materials, planetary ball milled metallic powders, that ignite upon contact with atmospheric oxygen, cost $300/kg and above.

Also, there are countless items that share similar mechanisms. If you know gun mechanics, you know how universal shapes those are. For common people, you only need 1-2 seconds with a gun to disassemble it into two or more parts to make it unrecognizable as a firearm to most of them, and that's only with guns that look like guns.

This is not black and white scenario. This is a scenario with technology that supports other technologies. While making pressure bearing parts from metal is easy-ish with basic machine tooling, frames, receivers, grips, stocks and many secondary parts isn't - but then you can 3D print them. Now you have a gun that has all important - but simple - parts made out of high strength alloys, but all secondary parts 3D printed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reloading/comments/yjht7t/diy_primer_cupping_tool_is_probably_mostly_ready/

https://www.reddit.com/r/reloading/comments/xqjf17/are_there_reasons_why_modern_primer_anvils_are/

I am actually pretty involved in the subject. Also, I won't care about muzzle loaders, they were phased out for obvious reasons and would be of little effect in modern day, melee weapons would likely be better option.

BP does not suit automatic weapons, and it's 1/3 of NC power.

Lol single shot guns don't count. Yes, those can be built from scratch, but they are pretty much as effective as melee weapons.

Black powder does not also suit in automatic weapons, it leaves over 50% solid residue, which will foul the mechanism and cause a jam quickly. It also has 1/3 of power of smokeless propellants. There is formulation called ammonpulver which is based on ammonium nitrate, and is currently being researched as a substitute for NC.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reloading/comments/yjht7t/diy_primer_cupping_tool_is_probably_mostly_ready/

https://www.reddit.com/r/reloading/comments/xqjf17/are_there_reasons_why_modern_primer_anvils_are/

I proudly present. Also, the primer composition used is H-48, that is chlorate based primer. It was used primarily to the 50's, and some countries like soviet bloc used it far beyond that, and it's proven and reliable.

I don't know, and I would like to know. I have been researching the topic for quite a long time now, and manufacturing a reliable, consistent quality cased ammo with primer and propellant is very difficult. You can write theory how you can "just do some NC and reload and shoot", but it's far, far from that.

Something that may occasionally go off and shoot a low powered projectile does not count.

Banknotes have the property that they must be identical to 99.999% rate with no exceptions, so there is really no way to circumvent a single copy detection system. Also, banknotes are screened multiple times over the cycle of use with high resolution multi-feature scanners, so there's already two easy points to attack.

Meanwhile, guns do not share any specific shape or property that could define them as a "gun". There are countless devices that share similar features, cordless drills for example resemble pistol grips. Also, it would be easy to engineer the parts to pass these simple detection systems, or print them in two or more parts and fix them together.

Also, all programs and software should follow the universal code, which should be updated continuously. All it needs is one open source software, that essentially rips the source code of the market leader program, but with that crap detection property disabled, and it renders the whole thing ineffective.

I think public advertising should be regulated more. I hate ads.