Guns are just a slight evolution of the sling, just us throwing rocks further and faster.

Same as it ever was.

The shit shovel too AK guide is still on my favorite guides that were floating around on the interwebz

Anyone with machining knowledge can turn a block of metal into a working gun part

Sounds like the lawsuit is on thin ice, then.

yeah, typo

Por que no los dos?

No I think this is an example of the opposite - it's not an action against the filament industry or the 3d printing community in general, it's against an individual company for allegedly marketing filament specifically to print guns, not just because filament could or might be used to print guns. Whether the law itself is right or wrong is a different issue.

If this goes up to the federal court level, it's almost certainly getting struck down. It's a pretty clear infringement upon the 2nd amendment.

It's a miracle that the CA gun laws haven't been struck down at the federal level yet.... By the gods, I hope they do. The situation in CA is utterly miserable for y'all.

This is a direct quote from the ATF Director, Rob Cekada:

https://youtu.be/1h_wRotsHTw?t=390

The interview starts at 390 seconds.

the voice-to-text transcription wasn't entirely accurate, but it should be good enough to get the point across.

Yeah, I think uh again, as long as folks are in compliance with their state laws, they're in good shape. Uh the only thing that people need to remember uh even even prior to uh this uh guidance coming out uh as an American citizen if you weren't prohibited and there was no state laws uh that prevented you from doing so [music] you were allowed to build your own firearm

The alternative of not stating that comment was requested is we read the article and wonder if Polymaker ever got a chance to speak their side.

But that's kinda my point: I still don't know if they had a chance to speak their side before the article was published, nor do I know if they will.

It's really just a nitpick on my part. If they plan to publish a follow-up article about the response, then it would seem a bit more honest to just add one word: "yet"

One of the best guns of all time (the .45 1911) was made by a typewriter offshoot of Remington.

The problem is that, legally speaking, the lower receiver is the gun. So you can buy all the other parts online with no background check etc.

Makes you wonder if there's a more sensible way to classify things legally... Probably not.

My biggest problem with all these attacks on 3d printing is that what you are talking about is completely legal as far as I am aware. There are tons of places online that sell partial receiver blanks that require the buyer to do the last few bits of machining and turn a "block of metal" into a "gun", legally speaking. It is currently completely legal for an individual in the US to build a gun without telling anyone about it for personal use so long as the final result does not run afoul of ant NFA rules (like automatic fire, length of shotgun, caliber size, etc.). They don't start doing anything illegal until they sell them, or even give them away (again, assuming they meet all of the NFA rules - obviously someone making themselves a gun has a high risk of running foul of the myriad of rules here, but the end result has to be evaluated to determine if they broke the law or not).

So all of these are just using gun terror as an attack vector against 3d printing in general. Just like the "think of the children" campaigns all over the world that are really just about stripping us of privacy and security. The guns aren't the real problem and neither are the kids. A free, private, and secure populace is the problem.

I am not advocating that people build their own guns. I am not a lawyer. I advise anyone go learn your local laws and discuss with actual legal counsel before choosing to attempt anything that could be against federal firearm law. kthx

I don't know how impactful those are, and I think a person with access to a decent metal shop could pose more danger.

What is it just the access that's scary then? As a guy that doesn't know guns, you often hear things like a potato or a water bottle can be made into a makeshift surpressor or turning a single fire into a sensative rapid fire trigger is trival. So I'm just not understanding why 3d printers are almost entirely linked to making guns in everyone's minds. When I first got a elgoo that was the first thing people would jokingly ask if I was going to make one.

Like maybe I can understand the argument that access is so low anyone can do it, but even then you can't just download a gun. The person who is doing this already bought gun parts and knows how to assemble them. This is not going to stop that kind of person from building a gun in any form. The gun is still the metal parts you buy online. A silencer, a trigger mod, whatever is useless until you handle ghost guns.

Can order black powder revolvers to your door, and can buy replacement parts that allow them to fire cowboy cartridges, which are just low FPS lead rounds, like 800fps. They'll kill a fella, but don't have quite the same force as modern rounds. They also burn a lower grade powder and are a bit more smokey.

Trump is trying to pass that law right now, a bit of hyperbole in my statement, but it reinforces my point

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN12725

You can have long guns purchased through the Civilian Marksmanship Program shipped directly to your door. Those are a drop in the bucket compared to most firearm purchases in the US, though.

This also didn't solve anything, if you look at the statistics.