Don’t Repeat NY’s 3D Printing Blunder

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are so many legislative changes that could be made to curb gun violence in the US and most states and federal government have done next to none of them. Seem ironic that the one thing new York does also allows a degree of surveillance over personal technology? Well intentioned my ass, this is as well intentioned as internet age controls.

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  • Carmakazi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Such as? Anything equal or adjacent to “restrict guns and ownership” is a political non-starter, and most anything less I can think of is impotent and/or easily circumvented.

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    • rklm@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      There is one form of gun control that has been effective and stood the test of time: Taxes.

      The NFA has been working for almost a hundred years.

      If politicians actually wanted to restrict gun ownership (rather than garnering temporary political support via impotent temporary policies the way California does) they’d use the NFA as a template.

      As long as it is impossible to get the majority of states to agree to amend the constitution, any policy that infringes on citizens rights to bear arms is temporary at best.

      There is decades of precedent in US courts that makes taxes and licensing not an infringement.

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