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NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer
(www.nysenate.gov)
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a printer is a good guy with a printer
Yeah, you can make a firearm with a piece of bamboo (this is basically what the first firearms were). To think you can restrict anyone from making a firearm is insane. You literally wouldn't be allowed to own anything if the capability of it making parts of a firearm is restricted. Drill press, lathe, and just about any tool should be restricted if that's the requirement.
Don't give them any fucking ideas
It seems pretty clear that this is trying to target the production of switch devices that turn firearms fully automatic, to which I would recommend going after the social media companies that allow these devices to be sold openly on their platforms. That's where these devices are coming from. Sure, plenty of them came out of a 3D printer, but most people on the street with them bought them from somebody else, no matter how they were manufactured.
Just enforce existing laws against switches, ghost guns, and automatic firearms, and go after any company that enables or profits from their sale. Regulating 3D printer sales won't solve the issue, because 3D printers are actually somewhat trivial to build, and you don't have to print these things in New York to sell them in New York.
lol wasn't the first gun law in America enacted to keep Black Americans from buying or possessing firearms?
Yup. In California, in fact. By a Republican governor named Ronald Reagan.
With all the wonderful things 3d printers can do they chose to focus on one thing. Effectively removing rights from people who never got to exercise them.
There's a certain section of Democrats for whom as soon as you say "guns" they turn off their brains and vote for whatever they're told to.
Much like "immigrants" or any number of right wing triggers. There's fewer of them on the left but they work the same way.
I just wanna say, agreed. But also if you go far enough left you get your guns back.
There's not that many people that far left, and no one in power.
Then they're even dumber than I thought, since those can be made with a coat hanger and a set of needle nose pliers.