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California Passes Backdoor Bill to Control the 3D Printing Hobby and Spy on Small Designers, Prototypers, and Hobbyists (www.techspot.com)
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This first bill allows the state of California to regulate and oversee all 3D prints in the name of public safety.

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[+] -16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Jokes aside it's to prevent having one that's not registered

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Not all legal firearms are registered anyway already. Not to mention it is completely legal to build your own gun in the US. So long as you aren't building something NFA regulated (full auto, over .50 caliber, short barrel shotgun, silencer, etc.) and you are not distributing them to anyone, you are allowed to just build a gun. There are places online that sell "receiver blanks" with plans for how to finish them with very basic machining, and then you can buy all the rest of the parts off the shelf at any gun store without any registration at all because only the receivers are regulated even a little bit.

    This has nothing to do with gun control. The entire concept of "ghost guns" has been a scare tactic to get enough public on-side to pass draconian surveillance and manufacturing control laws like this. The goal of this is to monitor "at-home manufacturing" (of anything, nothing to do with guns anymore than it has to do with warhammer compatible miniatures) and restrict the practice.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    For reference of just how easy this is, most AR-15s that I've seen have been units built from individual parts, my own included. That's kinda the AR-15's whole schtick, is that it's super modular and customizable, so much that a lotta people joke that it's "LEGOs for adults." It makes good sense, if company A makes a good upper, but Company B makes good triggers, so why not mix and match for the best of both worlds?

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