Good luck with that given 3D printers are full of open-source software.
Don’t bring that to their attention- they’ll start banning open source too.
POLICE, HE RELEASED HIS SOFTWARE FREE FOR ANYONE TO USE, SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT
Working on open source software was one of the things they used against Aaron Swartz.
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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.
I see 10,000 forks in the near future, and fully decentralized ways of hosting them. God forbid we actually try to regulate real guns, no it’s those damn hobbyists who spent thousands on printers!
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!
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
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Worst thing is, with any systemic rule change, the change js not instant. Allowing something like that would wither cause a spike up in crimes, or we’d feel it down the line. On the other hand, banning them doesn’t make sense, either.
even if police were perfect plenty of people would still want to do it themselves, as with anything there will be hobbyists. Some hobbies are more legal than others.
Lol, most of this crap is DIY, good luck with that
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Never stopped them before from still passing half-assed laws.
And those half-assed laws make great pretext laws.
“That guy has a 3d printer! He might be fabbing ghost guns!”
I built my own 3d printer 👉 👈
3d printing 3d printing machine. infinite money hax O.o?
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.
where are people distributing 3d printed gun models? I’m guessing thingiverse has already cracked down on weapons
There are still a bunch of torrents being seeded out there.
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)
Normally this is when the “small government” Republican party says “let’s not get government that too involved”…
…that is if they didn’t go full reich
What if you 3d print a 3d printer?
