No, but often gun control is an “if it stops even one” type of thing. Most of it is predicated on mass shootings which are .001% of gun violence in an attempt to ban the gun that kills <500 out of 60,000 people a year.
Comment on New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer
Gigan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is this a real problem? How many crimes are being committed with 3D printed guns?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
DScratch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Owning a ghost gun is a crime, right?
Nearly 500 were recovered last year. ny1.com/…/nypd-unit-combatting-the-growing-proble…
pokemaster787@ani.social 8 months ago
Owning a ghost gun is a crime, right?
(Ignoring the fact that “ghost gun” is a meaningless and intentionally emotionally charged term)
In New York, yes. In the vast majority of the US, no. It’s illegal to file the serial number off an existing firearm, but 100% legal in most states to manufacture your own unserialized firearms for personal use. Just cannot be sold/transferred.
I’d note the article you linked says nothing about how many of those are actually 3D printed, it is infinitely easier to deface the serial number on an existing firearm than it is to 3D print one.
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ignoring the fact that “ghost gun” is a meaningless and intentionally emotionally charged term
A ghost gun is what Emporio used to escape from Pucci in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
From the picture in that article, those guns would blow up in the shooter’s hand.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What a shame
ch00f@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can kind of see the logic.
Like book piracy was never a huge thing because you’d need a hell of a set up to make a book from scratch. Music piracy however…
I’m sure a decently skilled craftsman could make a decent firearm with a short trip to Home Depot, but the average Joe can’t make that happen too easily. With a 3D printer, you could have a gun with next to zero skill. Like a decently motivated person is going to find a gun anyway, but this maybe addresses the less motivated people/crimes of passion, etc.
That being said, if these are the same people advocating for a waiting period, they obviously don’t know how long 3D printing a gun takes.
Phrodo_00@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Book piracy was huge I don’t know what you’re talking about. You could get professionally printed books or you could always just photocopy them.
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ebook piracy is a thing. Often done by the same professor who wrote the textbook.
ch00f@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean before ebooks we’re a thing. Like before music piracy was a thing.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a rounding error… basically just politicians virtue signalling that they’re doing something.
MajesticSloth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m reminded of Leland Yee. California politician who was in favor of gun control all while doing gun running stuff himself. Guess he felt gun control was good for business.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fast and furious…ATF gun running to the cartels…