''No Control'' is a 2015 American

documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

written, produced, directed by,

Jessica Solce Jessica may refer to: Given name * Jessica (given name), includes a list of people and fictional characters with this name * Jessica Folcker, a Swedish singer known by the mononym Jessica * Jessica Jung, a Korean-American singer known by the mon ...

about

gun control Gun control, or firearms regulation, is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms and ammunition by civilians. Most countries allow civilians to own firearms, bu ...

and

gun culture in the United States Gun culture in the United States refers to the behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs surrounding the ownership and use of firearms by private citizens. Gun ownership is deeply rooted in the History of the United States, country’s history and is le ...

. An underlying theme of the film, and where the name of the film "No Control" comes from, relates to the great difficulty in regulating firearms and gun parts in the present age of

3D printed 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer ...

and self-made firearms.

Synopsis

The film follows several different people from both a perspective of supporters of

gun rights The right to keep and bear arms (often referred to as the right to bear arms) is a legal right for people to possess weapons (arms) for the preservation of life, liberty, and property. The purpose of gun rights is for self-defense, as well as ...

as well as detractors, or people that support gun control. One of the most prominently featured persons interviewed throughout the film is

Cody Wilson Cody Rutledge Wilson (born January 31, 1988) is an American Right to keep and bear arms in the United States, gun rights activist and Crypto-anarchism, crypto-anarchist. He started Defense Distributed, a nonprofit organization, non-profit organ ...

, the famous crypto-anarchist creator of the world's first 3D printed gun, the Liberator. The film also features Greg Bokor, an artist working on a work called "Erase" in which a rendered drawing of an AR-15 type rifle is presented to a public audience alongside many rubber pencil erasers in order to allow participants to engage with the work and individually use the erasers to erase the gun. The film additionally highlights the March 2013 Colorado Springs senate recall which took place after Colorado Springs Senate president John Morse and Pueblo Senator

Angela Giron Angela Giron (born May 12, 1960) is an American politician who was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the Colorado Senate representing Colorado's 3rd Senate district, District 3 from 2011 until she was recalled on September 1 ...

voted to enact new restrictions on gun ownership. On September 10, 2013, both politicians were recalled (removed from office in a special election) as a result of their voting in favor of gun control. Keith Coniglio, the Secretary for the Basic Freedom Defense Fund based in

Boulder, Colorado Boulder is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule city in Boulder County, Colorado, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 108,250 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the most ...

said in the film in response to these recalls, "I hope to inspire citizenry to stand up and remind them oliticiansyou work for me. I might not be able to stop you from passing these laws if you've got it in your head to do it, but by God I can fire you and then hire someone who will remove them." The film also featured numerous other interviews with professors, activists and talking heads including

Dan Kahan Dan M. Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His professional expertise is in the fields of criminal law and evidence, and he is known for his theory of cultural cognition. Education After attending a boarding ...

, William C. Thompson, Jim Jacobs, and Shaina Harrison. The film closes with activist Cody Wilson stating:

I am not trying to sell you something. I am not trying to increase demand or say that everyone should have a gun. I just release it. That hurts these people who believe in elite social administration. It just hurts them, because they see no way of getting around it legally and controlling it. Yeah, look, I might go to jail or something, fine, but I still won. You know at least in a symbolic sense. It's going to continue winning. There is no way that with something like the Liberator of stopping that. Something new is here, and I just mean paradigmatically. That can't be undone. That is online forever, and it is only going to be more and more of that.

Reception

''No Control'' was met with generally positive reviews including being called, "...a provocative and meaningful exploration on the hot button issue of gun control" and "...giving voice to advocates from both sides." Along with other positive acclaim.

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