• gearheart@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Residential printers typically can’t copy money.

    Can’t something be built in where it does not allow printing a gun?..

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      2 months ago

      Two different things. Money’s usefulness is in its scarcity and authenticity. So, making fake money identifiable by making real money harder to reproduce renders the fake money worthless.

      Unfortunately, adding a watermark to a gun doesn’t really stop it from being a gun.

    • ikidd@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Let me introduce you to RepRap which is how all home 3D printers were built before there were commercially available printers that didn’t cost $25,000.

      It’s like saying “maybe we can stop lathes from turning gun barrels”, which frankly is more of a concern than someone blowing their fingers off printing a plastic gun, but equally impossible to regulate.