The Do-It-Yourself Biology (DIYBio) community arose starting in the mid-2000's. This community falls is typically described in two ways in public discourse. More conservative elements paint this community as a cause of concern - increased access to life sciences technology, knowledge, and capabilities raises concerns that community members may produce biological products for harmful purposes. More progressive elements highlight that the self-enforcing nature of the community mitigates harmful outcomes, and that the DIYBio community can also contribute to society by addressing gaps in science education, innovation, and workforce training. This presentation will be a distillation of work I have been doing during my PhD work to build a better understanding of community labs - one of several significant segments of the DIYBio community. I will provide a risk assessment framework that national security experts appear to use in assessing risks from emerging technologies and related phenomena. I will then describe how this risk assessment framework may interpret DIYBio as an emerging threat to national security. The remainder of the presentation will be on presenting the nuances that complicate this allegedly straightforward assessment.