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[–] 64 points 4 months ago (27 children)

You can buy whole kits to build your own, the capacity to control what is made with the is about as much as if you tried to ban someone with a table saw from building a birdhouse.

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  • [+] 40 points 4 months ago (21 children)
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    Pretty sure you could make a gun too, which is the point of this 3D printer thing

    And like what about other CNC machines?

    I like that California is on the frontier of many tech laws, but this and the age thing are particularly dumb lately

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Nobody tell California about a nail combined with certain diameters of pipe, because guess what, those can become guns too.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (7 children)

    Neat, I would've assumed you'd need a mill or a lathe, not just a drill press. Kinda want to know how to do it myself, since I own the former but not either of the latter.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    The upper reciever is the load bearing part on an Armalite, but it's also not the regulated part. The lower receiver is, and all you need for that is a box that holds the trigger components in vaguely the right place, a hole that lines up the magazine, a hole to stick the buffer tube into at the back, and some way to nail the upper receiver to it.

    You could carve an AR lower out of wood if you were dedicated enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Guess I ought to go find a set of machining schematics.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Please explain how I can "do literally anything productive with my life" when I'm murdered by MAGA fascists because I had no means to defend myself.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Yeah I’ve lived in CA for about 10 years now and have loved it, but the new laws they are passing are making it extremely likely that I’ll be moving soon. Especially with tje fact that we are either getting either Becerra who’s in Big AI and Big Oils pocket.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If I'm not mistaken, this DOES cover ALL manufacturing devices, and if it doesn't, it will in the future

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  • [+] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
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    Actually ammo reloaded at home shoots better than factory ammo this is a known occurance. And guns put together with kits usually shoot better and have less problems than mass produced factory ones.

    Guns aren't really that difficult to make. Hell that Japanese guy shot Shinto Abe with a gun he made himself although bit of a different thing because it used a battery to ignite the gunpowder but still the same idea.

    Making guns isn't hard to do.

    3d printed ones are a joke though. You can only use them a few times before they become even more dangerous and unpredictable. Anyone who wanted to use an actual firearm would never use a 3d printed gun.

    Maybe one of those 200K metal 3d printers or whatever. But at that point it would be easier to machine the parts yourself out of metal. It really isn't as difficult as you seem to think it is to do that.

    If they wanted gun control (which California already has a bit more of than other States) then they could pass a law doing that. This is 100% a surveillance law.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Or just go to a bordering state, buy one, and come back

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