Comment on USA | Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices
Addv4@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sounds like they are trying to crack down on people trying to print bump stocks or something. Truly sounds like a damn stupid sisyphisian task that can be used to survail what is being printed on common printers.
nul9o9@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are small modifications that can be done to convert guns to full auto. Glock switches and auto seers, or what not. The idea of usi g this to spy on printers is frustrating.
Addv4@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep. Plus, what measures would be required to defeat basic printer blocks? Could it defect differences in tolerance? What if you redesigned an internal part to make the overall print slightly different? It an endless task that doesn’t seem like it will be very useful for anything other than random surveillance.
tilefan@lemm.ee 2 months ago
probably some sort of comparison list of shapes that it can’t produce. like how photocopy and printer manufacturers make it so you can’t copy legal tender
Addv4@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, but when you are doing that you are basically just comparing to what it can’t be. This would be looking at any possible way to design a mechanism to (for instance) turn a semi auto to a full auto, which is to say having something that can independently look at stuff, automatically redesign them in all of the unexpected ways, and ban those from ever being printed.
tilefan@lemm.ee 2 months ago
people are making those out of plastic?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
3D printers are no longer limited to a single plastic. They can use wood, metal, carbon fiber and even organic materials these days.
YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Also, material sciences have flourished. Lots of plastics can even outperform metal in specific tasks