So the point isn’t 3d printers making guns, it’s 3d printers enabling people to escape registration of guns, especially for unregulated sale of guns.
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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 months agoWhile I majorly disagree with this legislation, its not about plastic guns.
They only regulate the part of a gun that has the serial number, not the other parts. For “repairability.” Guess what that one part is easily made of? Yup, plastic.
People are printing the easy part, and buying all the rest in metal. Proper control would be to regulate the sale of commercially manufactured replacement parts, not a tool.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 months ago
B0rax@feddit.de 4 months ago
Maybe start regulating normal guns more first… 3D printed guns are not a problem anywhere in the world.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 months ago
Well, yes, but I was specifically going down the replacement part road because the intent of the legislation is to limit ghost guns (unregistered firearms), not guns overall. IMO it’s just a play to say “we are cracking down on guns!” without actually doing it. And since it only hurts a niche audience, who cares, right?