Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Wait so far these things are relatively trivial pieces of equipment in terms of software, no? Read instructions, move stepper motors/control heating elements.
So realistically what we’re looking at is hash based block lists for known firearm and parts designs, which would be trivial to circumvent by adding the equivalent of noop instructions to the .gcode files 🤷♂️
No, realistically what we’re looking at is a full ban on 3D printing as a whole because anything the printer does “might” be a gun part.
And then shortly after, a ban on property rights as a whole, because anything you own with a circuit board or a stepper motor in it “might” be modified to create an illegal 3D printer.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They’ll do anything but adopt firearm laws that are relevant and sensible.
iggy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To be fair, California has some of the strictest gun laws in the US. That’s a low bar though.
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 1 day ago
And most of those laws are either stupid, out of touch, racist, or multiple of those. In a fair amount of times it’s all three.