Trying to stop a printer from printing sounds like a tough ask.
Maybe they can partner with Epson or Brother, they’re pretty good at keeping their printers from printing
Those are angels compared to HP
I built my own 3d printer 👉 👈
3d printing 3d printing machine. infinite money hax O.o?
No infinite money sink. Started by printed some upgrades for my printer, now i suddenly have 3 that can waste plastic at significantly higher speeds.
What if you 3d print a 3d printer?
Was there a shooting with a printed firearm recently?
Irrelevant: the goal is not preventing shootings (I mean, they would go for the obvious solution otherwise)
This isn’t really about safety, it’s about gun manufacturer profits.
Like how machine gun owners don’t support the repeal of the nfa or fopa because it would tank the value of their stamp items.
not sure but I heard they recently caught the FGC-9 designer
EDIT found the story: https://news.sky.com/story/jacob-duygu-incel-who-mysteriously-died-unmasked-as-creator-of-worlds-most-popular-3d-printed-gun-12997178
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Yes, because it’s so difficult to get a gun in America any other way /s
Probably the gun industry lobbying for this 🫢
Next up: Smith and Wesson is granted a copyright for DRM on STL files.
wootwoot 3d printing mentioned 😎
Maybe the dumbest possible idea here from government regulators. You think you’re going to somehow legislate certain geometry out of existence? “Sorry, you can’t print that ILLEGAL SHAPE with the printer you own!” Same vacant headed assholes that think they can ban encryption. Fuck off, shrivel up and perish, please.
Impossible. The only actual discourse I think they have is to either ban 3d printers outright, require that filament/resin etc designed for these is made somehow traceable, or license and/or registrate the purchase and/or used of the printers/filaments.
Down right idiotic. I’m all for some better gun control, but this is just a stupid idea.
If Texas wants to put a bounty on women, we should be able to put a bounty on guns. It’d be a lot more effective too.
Republicans literally hunting women
Liberals: “if only we could disarm women, things would be better.”
as a non-American, do I even dare ask what you’re talking about?
A while back some Texas lawmakers wanted to offer a reward for turning in women seeking out of state abortions. I think that’s what the commenter is referring to.
They did actually pass that law.
Oh right that. Some of Y’all are nuts.
I’ll never understand why we just can’t do the exact same things as Republicans do thats within the letter of the law (hopefully spirit-ish but letter is the main concern)
Illegal migrants employed? Texas bounty
Illegal guns possession or production? Texas bounty
Abuse of religious tax exemption or religious political activism? Texas bounty
Seperation of church and state violations? Texas bounty
Get the direct witnesses to trash some scratch for the trouble and watch the streets clean themselves
Something Chuck Norris could support….
Are they going to require government monitors if you own a CNC machine next?
It wouldn’t surprise me if somebody tried to get such a thing passed in a couple of years.
Ban pipes when?
There is essentially no way to enforce, or even monitor this, like it’s fundamentally impossible without controlling everything from stl creation, to weapon construction.
Hit the nail right on the head for what they want. Why do you think they are making laws to ban porn? It’s a hide behind think of the children to get your foot in the door to control more
Somebody needs to be seen doing something before the next election.
Incidentally, 3d printed parts aren’t used for conversion kits. They’re machined out of metal stock (and occasionally re-machined original parts).
From what I have seen 3d printing is used to create the exterior of the gun. The functional firing parts such as the barrel are made out of machined metal
That squares with the greyprints I’ve looked at. However, the article specifically talks about conversion kits.
I love technological non-solutions to social problems. They are the only thing the work better then passing more laws that say you can’t murder people with guns.
You can’t 3D print a gun, but you can buy one without a background check. Brilliant.
Think of the stock prices!
If they could do this, it would be a good idea. It’s just not possible.
They should put controls on lathes and mills to prevent making guns. Metal guns are a lot more effective than plastic guns anyways. /s
My understanding is that the metal parts are bought. The only part of a gun that is controlled legally is fine in plastic
This is basically how today’s 3d printed guns work, but even still the gun isn’t good for more then a few magazines afaik. So it’s interesting as a way to create a gun that isn’t serialized and the ATF can’t trace, but it’s not durable, and it still requires a good deal of precision engineering/cost, so its not feasible to print a truck-load and sell them for cheap.
The video kind of proves my point. It was janky, he fired <20bullets, and it jammed several times during the demo. Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool as hell, but yea not very practical for anything and certainly not durable enough to be a viable alternative to CNC/Milling.
How many mass shooters finish more than a few magazines? My guess is very few
Probably the same number that used 3d-printed guns.
