• DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    “might stop anyone from 3D printing guns”

    I can guarantee you that it won’t even do that.

    • mctoasterson@reddthat.comEnglish
      2 months

      It absolutely won’t do that. You know how many millions of early generation Prusa and Ender 3 printers are in the US? Many of these models have no internet connectivity whatsoever and print from SD card.

      What that means is they will also try to incorporate spyware into your CAD and/or slicer software, which is even more invasive.

      This is a anti-privacy bill.

      • evadersnack@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2 months

        It won’t stop anyone buying or importing innocuous machinery parts like 2020 aluminium extrusions or GT2 belts either. There are mature generic 3D printer designs out there that outperforms RepRap i3 bedslingers.

        E.g. https://vorondesign.com/voron2.4

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    This goes way, way beyond ‘guns.’ It is an assault on property rights and freedom of expression as concepts generally. It would fully outlaw Free Software firmware (which is what the entire 3D printer hobby, having started with the RepRap project, is based on!). It would cut the Maker movement as a whole off at the knees.

    It’s absolute tyranny in ways entirely unrelated to guns themselves.

  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2 months

    Wow, they are doing so much to stop guns from getting into the wrong hands. I’m really glad the everyday issue of 3d printed guns will finally be solved.

    Wait until they find out that you can make a shotgun with some galvanized pipe and a nail.

  • TwodogsFighting@lemdro.idEnglish
    1 month

    Wtf is the point in this in the US when you can just go and pick up a gun from the road or a bush or someone’s desk or whatever?

  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Video series worth a watch from 3D Printing Nurd.

    These videos talk about the additive printing bill and how it essentially looking to make any “uncertified” 3d printer or even CNC machines illegal.

    Strictest 3D Printing Regulation YET! California AB2047: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ax9zW0w_gY

    3D Printing in California Can Be Saved! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGvvEuIPJxA

    The FINAL Hearing in California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6fpPStIAsY

  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    I’m no gun person, but you could easily make a gun on a lathe or a mill drill, too. Get a CNC one and you don’t even need to know how to use them.

    Are we going to start fitting them with “you might be making a gun” detectors, too? Of course not.

    Edit: Turns out they are… I choose to blame my ignorance on the paywall.

  • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    This is just dumb people being bought by gun lobby groups…on top of all of this bullshit, guns are %100 legal to make. It’s not illegal to make a firearm for personal use, even if you could 3d print one completely.

    • PattyMcB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Know you’re local laws. It IS illegal to 3d print guns in NY amd CA already.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        California it is illegal, but NY is not.

        NY requires a FFL or gunsmith license

        California you can only make 3 a per year without a FFL license.