Comment on USA | Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices

• Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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    • Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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      • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I think at best they’re going to be playing a catch up game at all times. it might be nice and easy for printers that are connected to the internet and can get regular updates, but it doesn’t take a genius to airgap his printer

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• tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  people are making those out of plastic?

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    3D printers are no longer limited to a single plastic. They can use wood, metal, carbon fiber and even organic materials these days.

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    • YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Also, material sciences have flourished. Lots of plastics can even outperform metal in specific tasks

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      • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        right, but are they making these out of plastic?

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