...So the expectation is that a criminal organization would obviously print and build a gun, but they wouldn't sidestep a law to illegally build a 3D printer from scratch to do it?
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I the US, Buying a gun from some guy in an alley or a gun show, has always been a lot easier than printing one
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Establishment democracts trying to again to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. What kind of tratoris brainrot do you have to have to on one hand acknowledge a growing faciest federal government and on the other hand fight to disarm the people, worse specifically the people mostly likely targeted by that government, while also kneecapping people and communities rights to repair and create what they want and need themselves.
What are you doing Mamdani!⸮
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I mean the idea "prevent people from 3D printing guns" is good. At least its heart is in the right spot. 3D printers make it much much easier to make a gun. It's like what AI is doing to development, writing, and so on. Now people who didn't know how to make a gun can do it quite easily with little to no skill.
However, the problem is always feasibility and privacy. Companies hide their plans from their employees by dividing up the work so that no one is the wiser. Circumventing this at the software level would be easy, just print the parts separately. If everything is tracked, that's a huge breach in privacy.
These kinds of things only ultimately serve the surveillance apparatus.
Tracking who owns such a machine capable of printing a gun though🤔 Dunno... Not sure whether I'm against that. I could be convinced either way. We do need licenses to drive our rolling murder machines and not every 3D printer is capable of printing a functional gun.
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So... could I not just disconnect my pc from the internet, or have a desktop or virtual machine without internet access, keep my 3d printer offline, and use a software or 3d modeling software that's open-source, and profit?
This bill has also just classified my ice tray as a 3D printer, and don't tell anyone but a trip to my local Home Depot with 10 bucks in my hand could potentially make something more dangerous.
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Tariffs so people will start producing more in US. Also, don't produce in the US.
From the thumbnail: New York, California, ... Generic US state?
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