That was the idea. Tech companies don‘t want us to have nice things because it makes their products look all the more shitty. And so they attack anything open source that they don‘t directly benefit from. Some investors are probably seeing the shitty ink printer business and hope they can degrade 3D printing to that degree too. They take any opportunity to fuck the small people for a chance of making an easy buck.

California needs to wise up and realize that you can make functional firearms out of $20 worth of hardware store parts. They can't stop the signal.

Shinzo Abe got his cheeks clapped with a homemade gun in a country with roughly zero legal civilian firearms, and a violent crime rate of less than 1 per 100,000.

Can't stop the signal.

What they want is not about guns. It's about checking all your prints to make sure you are not printing something you can buy retail, or an overpriced plastic appliance part.

Fuck BAMBU labs, let's get back to air gapped printers.

“Scans for 3D printed firearm” yeah okay. It’s totally going to detect that with 100% accuracy.

time for underground 3d printers

Idiots who don't understand 3D printers pass laws regulating 3D printers to supposedly prevent gun violence. Gun violence unaffected. News at 11.

I wonder how many "Ban Boaty!" t-shirts I can sell to propenents of this.

It's almost like a strong, centralized government with power over our everyday lives can be easily subverted into doing things we don't really want it to do.

Huh

Weird.

This is not about guns. This is about the increasing use of 3D printers in right to repair and printing parts.

What they want is to block you from making a $30 flimsy plastic part better for $0.60. So they will use AI to check your STLs and block you from printing anything that you can buy.

The gun issue is stupid. If they really cared about that, they would block gun manufacturers from selling gun parts no questions asked, because no one can actually 3D print and working gun out of plastic without actual gun parts of metal.

Also, not every gun is lethal. It is perfectly acceptable to make nerf guns. The law in Canada for example is it just needs to have below a certain muzzle velocity.

This is more a US gun culture issue than a 3D printer issue, and they're just trying to scapegoat things.

This is what happens when one party has total control. Please stop being freaks Republicans!

Just stop making products for Americans.

Can we please have idiots who don't know what the fuck they're doing stop passing clueless laws?