My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.

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• sj_zero ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago federation: unsent

  Hopefully someday these places make murder illegal so people can't kill others without violating the law.
• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, I guess if I ever move to Italy I’ll be screwed…

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• modus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another murderbot off the streets. Italy is safe.

  For now.

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  • spitfire@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They need to ban printer sales

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is fucking dumb. I made a better knife than that on the bench grinder in my high school shop class. The teacher watched me do it (and immediately took it away).

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Those knives sure are dangerous

  Hope they will soon ban these too and put their manufacturer in jail:

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• Spesknight@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Background: there was a student stabbed to death in Liguria (whole other place) and so media is going crazy about anything knife related.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s been a whole lot of stabbing in the news lately, I guess that’s what the news cycle is on right now

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  • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The students were of Egyptian and Moroccan descent, so right-wing politicians are having a field day with the whole “culture war” shit

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• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But they didn’t confiscate his kitchen knives?

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those probably have serial numbers and a whole tracking system lol

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    • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did they take away his rocks too?

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• escapeVelocity@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This guy will go to jail and start making knives for other inmates lol

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• sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Next we’ll all see more legislation to make 3D printer software monitor everything you make and auto-report anything deemed dangerous to the elite

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  he printed some PLA shivs that would probably shatter if they hit a piece of parmesan cheese.

  How big of a piece of parmesan are we talking? Ever tried to cut into a wheel of cold parmesan? It’s pretty tough. Meatbags are a lot less tough.

  That being said, we learned how to make knives by smashing 2 rocks together like a thousand years ago, this ain’t stopping nobody.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can confirm it’s much harder to stab a wheel of parmesan cheese than a person, but at least the cheese doesn’t scream

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok, I’m stabbing the cheese wrong then I guess.

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• foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow. Going after letter openers now, are they?

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  • Jocarnail@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you were to bring a letter opener to school and sell it to your friends you would still get a nice meeting with the police. The existence of the journal article is more related to the fact that a kid was stabbed to death in school last week, than to the fact that a dumb kid did something stupid and marginally related to his 3d printer.

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• fonix232@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be perfectly fair, a proper wheel of Parmigianino Reggiano IS quite hard...

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s performative. Sucks to be the student who will have his life ruined to be made “an example” out of.

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  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The just d took a shortcut to filing a toothbrush. Those don’t do shit a kitchen knife wouldn’t do.

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• Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People who 3D prints anime weapons replicas:

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The swing speed on Guts’ greatsword is so slow, the cops have plenty of time to unload 2 maybe even 3 magazines into them, so they’re not as dangerous as the faster DPS weapons like daggers and shivs.

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    • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, but in this case it’s less a sword and more a lump of plastic.

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure they’ll be introducing legislation that makes owning your own means of production onerous if not illegal within a week or two. Can’t be having citizens realize they can make their own replacement parts or consumer items!

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• entwine@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t get it, are knives illegal in Italy? What if I want to cut my spaghetti?

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Spring assisted switchblades are illegal in quite a few countries, so I imagine they are in Italy as well. Still completely ridiculous, as they are plastic toy replicas, and not actual knives.

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    • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      most of those classic stiletto switchblades are manufactured in italy

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Often even unassisted switchblades are illegal. They’re called gravity knives.

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    • Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know the knife laws in Italy, especially not for the specific part of Italy this occurred in

      But often laws about switchblades and such have to do with carrying them, or occasionally selling them, but often just owning a switchblade and keeping it at home isn’t really an issue

      As far as manufacturing, I again don’t know about the specific regulations, if there’s maybe any kind of licensing or something needed, but I know for a fact that it is either not totally illegal to manufacture a switchblade in Italy, or they are *very * selectively enforcing those laws because there are some very well-known manufacturers of them based there (if I had more disposable income I’ve had my eye on a Frank Beltrame stiletto for a while)

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    • INeedANewUserName@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure 30 years ago they were legal in Italy but maybe not OTF, out the front. That seems to often be an important legal distinction.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What if I want to cut my spaghetti?

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  • turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Auto-translate is saying ‘snap knife’, but I’d imagine it’s to do with it being deployable / spring loaded in some way.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the really weird thing. If these knives were made of metal and in a kitchen drawer, nobody would think of them as being weapons. But since they are 3d printed, that’s novel enough to warrant some panic or something…

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    • Jocarnail@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not because they are 3d printed. He was distributing them at school! That is the problem.

      If he were to file down toothbrushes and do the same he would still be arrested and his files confiscated.

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not sure how rules are in Italy, but where I live “switchblades” and other one-hand operated collapsible knives are illegal.

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• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Poor guy even got his ams with four rolls of pla confiscated ☠️

  I can’t imagine getting a search warrant for toys in a teenager room.

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    3D printers are not really toys though, regardless of how ridiculous this arrest is. It’s a tool, like a hammer or drill…nothing more, nothing less.

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