I totally agree with you, like always politician have an idea but don’t even state how to realise it… So possibly this will actually never happen.
One thing that come to my mind is that manufacturer could maybe use some kind of hash database of firearms related files. While printer are not very powerful, that’s something that could be done on slicer but that would mean the death of open source software (at least in USA) as to implement this every manufacturer would need to force customer using their slicer. Also, wondering how much power demanding it is for printer to recreate solid object, could they just read gcode to analyse object? and since guns are not 25cmx25cm square, it’s not like this would take ages to analyse.
altphoto@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
This is exactly correct. Its like these people are not giving it one thought.
There are two bills one says to not sell to criminals and to not allow them to operate the machines…hmm okay…
Hey, I’m selling my Bridgeport!
Hey I want to buy it!
Are you a Felon?
No
Prove it, please fill out this application form so we can send it off to the government for review.
No thanks!
Wait so are you a Felon or just because its stupid and intrusive?
Stupid and intrusive!
Okay thanks!
Hold on, my raspberry pi just got done comparing the model to one of a million different barrels. This will take a while…
Ten years later…
The new raspberry pi 34 can do 3 comparisons per day! And on just 10mW! Wow!
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
10 milliwatts is pretty good TBH, it definitely deserves a wow!
altphoto@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
LOL.