We do actually. Just last year new york passed the Concealed Carry Improvement act imposing a background check on ammunition purchases. This bill is completely redundant and unnecessary.
Comment on NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer
spark947@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Silly. Why can’t we just regulated the sale of ammunition and gunpowder?
GeekyNerdyNerd@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
CeeBee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Redundant, you say?
How else are corporations going to limit things like “right to repair” and sales, when people can print their own replacement parts or print stuff they would otherwise have to buy?
Think of the profits! /s
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Also, how else do you expect politicians to score easy points by “cracking down on gun violence” while wasting taxpayer resources and legislative time/effort? Won’t you think of the poor kids going to school in the literal war zone of the public school system?
For the record, common sense gun control laws are important (opinions are what these entail are welcome to vary). The issue is that most of the US already has such laws thoroughly in place yet people and politicians like to act like they don’t exist every time a tragedy occurs. I’m sure there’s exceptions, but the grand majoroty of the time a politician starts blathering about tightening gun control laws a cursory search shows plenty on the books for their jurisdiction.
Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 11 months ago
NY is the shining example of the simple creation of a law being enough to entirely extinguish any criminal activity related to it in the entire jurisdiction. This one is so incredibly powerful, in fact, that the very second it goes into effect, the whole state of NY will be unable to cross state lines to acquire said devil boxes, nor even use a VPN to make such a purchase online.
cheesemoo@lemmy.conk.me 11 months ago
That’s actually an excellent point about sharks that many people don’t realize. I’m petting one right now and it feels like the softest silk.
Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No direction is taboo, they’re smoother than vanta is black 🦈
spark947@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m all for preventative laws if they are good policy. This isn’t good policy.
trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
New York already regulates the sale of ammunition.
spark947@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Cool. I didn’t know that.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Why can’t we just regulated the sale of ammunition and gunpowder?
Or at least the gun parts needed to make a “3d printed” gun actually function as a firearm.
nomecks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can make a completely 3D printed gun that will survive at least one shot. I’m sure if you’re using resin or carbon fiber reinforced plastic so you could probably get more than one shot off.
Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Resin is generally more brittle than filament, FYI, and the real question with most 3D-printed firearms is whether the shooter survives “at least one shot”.
FireTower@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Most 3d printed guns are either redesigns of existing guns replacing non pressure bearing parts with printed parts (look up FMDA17 a 3D printed Glock 17 equivalent) or mostly printed with pressure bearing parts being barstock or pipes (see FGC-9).
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
That may usually survive that one shot.
Or it may fail and cause damage to the person foolish enough to be weilding it.
pushECX@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Receivers are already regulated
Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Receivers are usually the main part that’s 3d Printed, that’s the problem.
Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
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ultratiem@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Why? It’s not guns and bullets killing people, it’s 3D printing 🙃