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• deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The 1968 Firearms Act encased in law the right to make your own firearms and made it illegal to sell them So, Printed or Milled it was always illegal to sell legally made homemade firearms

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• tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why are these an issue though? It is not like people can just print the ammunition too. So they can only buy them with a gun license anyways.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reloading ammunition is a thing. In fact, it’s preferable.

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    • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But for that you need all the parts, including the gunpowder. And for the gunpowder you need a special permission for handling explosives, at least in my country. So you just move into areas of even more difficult to procure things. it seems far easier to just buy a gun and ammunition somewhere else and take it over the border into California.

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      • Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In America you MIGHT need to show ID for age verification purposes in most states when purchasing gunpowder.

        There is no country wide law requiring a permit to purchase everything you need to make bullets.

        The exception might be buying a large amount(like 50lbs) but low pounds(<10lbs) is legal without a permit.

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• darkmogool@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks for clarification :)

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• uis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not a lawyer, but what I heard is 3d guns somehow does not fall under definition of firearm in US.

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  • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A couple of things regarding this:

    Federally there is no law that says you can’t print and carry your own gun, no serial number required.

    However several states have strict laws and there are weird caveats. It has to be for personal use, cannot be sold or transferred and under the Undetectable Firearms Act any firearm that cannot be detected by a metal detector is illegal to manufacture, so legal designs for firearms such as 3d printed guns require a metal plate to be inserted into the printed body. Also online posting of plans for 3D-printed firearms require a license under the Export Administration Regulations issued by the Bureau of Industry and Security.

    So if you design your own gun, or get one from a company that has an export license, print it and then ensure that it has enough metal in it to be detectable… Go for it, should be legal.

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