Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  As usual, I have to wonder first if anyone actually put any thought into this, and further if anyone thought how the fuck they’re going to enforce it. This is just manufacturing one step removed… Anyone willing to make a gun with a 3D printer is certainly capable and willing of building their own 3D printer as well.

  Or buying/building a milling machine. Or a lathe. Or a drill, a hacksaw, and some files.

  Down this road lies madness.

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  • GooseFinger@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they cared more about making our society safer, they’d pay teachers more, build more homes, quintuple minimum wage, make education cheaper or free, actually tax the rich, reign in corpos, reform the police, abolish for profit prisons, make healthcare affordable and accessible, remove money from politics, just to start.

    But nah, virtue signaling is way easier and is clearly enough to get them re elected, so let’s ban 3D printers baby!

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Damn it’s good to see this list. I’ve been preaching it for years now. Gun control is virtue signaling bullshit, it will not solve the problem because guns aren’t the issue. Our society is deeply troubled and we need to fix the why’s, and not the what tool was used.

      I’d wager UBI and single payer alone safety needs would have violence over all drop by 50+%

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      build more homes, quintuple minimum wage, make education cheaper or free, actually tax the rich, reign in corpos, reform the police, abolish for profit prisons, make healthcare affordable and accessible, remove money from politics, just to start.

      Even rightwingers here demand more: build homes for everyone, tenfold minimum wage, more funding for universal education, more funding for UHC.

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  • astraeus@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or even better, just going across the state line and buying one.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t tempt them. New York cops will already pull over cars crossing the bridges and have been known to fine and/or arrest people for bringing in cigarettes bought out of state.

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    • seathru@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • GooseFinger@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a myth - It’s a felony offense for gun stores to sell guns to non residents of the state they’re in.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or buying/building a milling machine. Or a lathe. Or a drill, a hacksaw, and some files.

    Can you imagine world where working class can’t own means of production? But you don’t need to, it already exists.

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  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well said.

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• fidodo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man I want actual gun control not this bullshit.

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  • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the crap your average gun owners have to deal with all the time. And with similar results for crime prevention. Welcome to the shitshow, I’m sorry you’re here.

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    • okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not entirely a fair comparison. Gun owners might have to deal with some extra process in the acquisition of a tool explicitly capable of sending projectiles at lethal speeds. There is a good reason why some of those hoops might be tied to “crime prevention”. Because it is a tool remarkably well suited for it…

      Adding such loops for 3D printers would make as much sense as for a bag of sand, because you could drop it on someone… But that’s not what it’s used for… and the extra hoops should be in proportion.

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  • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nearly every law or bill in the last 40 years is crusted with bullshit no matter what the original intent or final result is.

    Political posturing, like the fucking straws.

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  • GooseFinger@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What exactly do you have in mind?

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    • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Armed rebellion against the ruling class of billionaires

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• Pohl@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  3d printed plastic guns are real in a sense but not in any practical way. I am not sure why so many people think this is a concern. If I have a box of ammo, I can probably go into my shop and come up with a way to fire it. I doubt I would use my 3d printer in that project though. There are better ways to makeshift a weapon.

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While 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.

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    • B0rax@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe start regulating normal guns more first… 3D printed guns are not a problem anywhere in the world.

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The lower receiver of an AR15 is legally considered the firearm. You can buy all other parts straight up, but you have to go through federal background checks on that one. Even with private sales, at least the first buyer would have to have gone through the process.

    On its own, it’s just a chunk of plastic or metal. It’s not pressure bearing and isn’t even all that mechanically stressed in typical use. Therefore, you can print that one part off, buy all other parts, bypass all checks, and have a completely unregistered AR15.

    In the UK, regulation tends to be around pressure bearing parts, and this is a lot more sensible.

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  • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    y. I am not sure why so many people think this is a concern.

    Movies, they fear a gun that can’t be detected in a metal detector.

    And you can still get one shot out of a plastic gun, and accuracy doesn’t matter if you are close.

    After Jan6 NO ONE in office is free from the fear of being a target of violence, not even the politicians that instigated it.

    Fear beats every other emotion. Nearly always

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To drive the point home a little further. No one, at least in this context, is making an all plastic gun with a 3D printer. It simply doesn’t happen. Even the memeworthy and incredibly janky Harlot 22LR uses steel barrel liners. It is also difficult (read: impossible) to have strong enough springs to fire a primer without using steel. Plus cartridges and bullets themselves are famously made out of… metals.

      The notion of a 3D printed plastic gun sailing through a metal detector are pure fantasy. Completely fictional. Bogus, bunk, absolute bullshit.

      But legislators believe it, because politicians are not actually experts in anything except playing politics. Which in general does not equip you with knowledge or experience from the real world.

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• aelwero@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “COMPUTER OR COMPUTER-DRIVEN MACHINE OR DEVICE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT FROM A DIGITAL MODEL.”

  I can print an origami pattern on my inkjet using my cell phone…

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People can produce 3D objects from digital models

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    • aelwero@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh shit… My mother was actually a computer… There was a time when that was an actual job title in certain fields.

      Gonna have to register my mom now…

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This bill would require literally every single commercial machinist in the state to also register. That’s fucking retarded and every single manufacturing company left (what few there may be) will fight this tooth and nail.

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• muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me in aus realising i can be arrested for clicking many of the links in this thread lol.

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  • Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What kind of dystopian hellhole do you live in where you can be arrested for clicking on a 3D model of a gun?

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    • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its called australia but i would classify it as a nanny state

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    • Marin_Rider@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      one where we don’t need to apply to buy a 3d printer

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  • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    don't worry they can just edit the database even if you don't

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    • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why bother with that they can just forfully take over any online account and do whatever they want. I dont think they even need a warrant to do so either.

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  • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What law affects this?

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• sj_zero ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lol

  And just imagine, you can make a shitty gun for 20 bucks using parts from the local hardware store.

  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    MacGyver was doing it before it was cool.

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    • RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No he wasn’t. MacGyver didn’t like guns. This trope actually carried through to SG1.

      Luckily, MacGyver did like explosives.

      Regardless, this bill is stupid no matter how you look at it. Speaking as a 3d printer related business in NY. I will fight this lunacy.

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  • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That won’t make it through a metal detector

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    • Calcium5332@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Neither will 99% of 3D printed guns. Most 3D printed guns use metal parts, and ammo will likely be detected as well. Only single shot, entirely 3D printed guns with plastic ammo has any chance.

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• NESSI3@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s next? I have to pass a criminal background check to purchase pipe at home depot because it can be used to make a slam shotgun? youtu.be/KptCCbTcq_o

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  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “piped” lmao

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ITT: Many people make the incorrect assumption that, aside from some specific state- and city-level ordinances, there is such a thing as “firearm registration” in the US.

  This is a myth largely promulgated by TV shows about cops. There is no nationwide firearms registry in the United States.

  Regulation != Registration.

  What does happen is that when a firearm is legally purchased from a dealer (FFL), the buyer must submit to and pass a federal background check. Records of these are not retained centrally, but each FFL dealer must maintain their own records of their own sales, indefinitely, as long as they remain in business. Centralized collection of firearm transaction records is prohibited by federal law, under the assumption that such a central record would be used to target, harass, and confiscate arms from their owners whenever the government felt like it (which is probably about a 50/50 mix of paranoia and accurate prediction).

  Some states also require their own more strict background checks. States also vary in how strict or lax they are in requiring background checks for transfers between private individuals, and not a dealer. There is no federal requirement for private sellers to conduct a background check to transfer ownership of a firearm except across state lines, but many states themselves do have such a requirement. Further, transfers and sales of handguns often have stricter state level requirements vs. long guns (rifles and shotguns).

  3D printing a firearm (receiver) does not allow any individual to “evade” any type of mythical “registration,” which by and large does not exist – as above. It does, however, allow a suitably motivated individual who could not pass a federal or state background check to get their hands on a presumably functional firearm.

  It is perfectly legal for a person who is not prohibited from possessing a firearm to begin with to manufacture their own firearm, via 3D printer or otherwise, on a federal level. Some states have already enacted restrictions on this, however.

  It is already illegal for a person prohibited from possessing a firearm to A) manufacture a firearm, B) possess any firearm (duh), or C) possess ammunition for any firearm, whether they are found to have a firearm to put it in or not.

  It is already illegal for a person to manufacture firearm(s) for the purposes of selling, trading, giving away, or otherwise putting into the possession of others, if they are not a federally licensed firearms manufacturer.

  It is already illegal to provide access to a firearm to a person prohibited.

  It is already illegal to use any manufacturing method (even a 3D printer) to produce a firearm or component that is otherwise illegal or restricted NFA item such as a machine gun, suppressor, short barreled rifle, etc., etc.

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• gullible@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t 3d printed guns crack after like 2 shots? Next they’re going to require ID to buy pipe and nails in order to guard everyone from modern improvised muskets.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    depends on the design, as well as the capability of the printer.

    DMLS is capable of producing basically anything you can think of in metal. FDM or resin, or whatever… you’re printing the frame.

    the DEFCAD design, specifically, you’re printing the AR lower receiver- which for some stupid reasons is designated as the “firearm” as far as laws and regulations go. So you can print the lower and buy the rest in cash as parts.that said, the only real function the lower serves in an AR is holding the magazine in place, so it’s not really subjected to anything that’s going to break it.

    Incidentally, $40 at a big box store and a lot of TLC with a dremmel can produce a passable SMG. in fact… many of the ww2 era machine guns were designed to be made in factories that used to turn out plumbing parts. (because this reduced the amount of time and materials spent on retooling the production lines.)

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Incidentally, $40 at a big box store and a lot of TLC with a dremmel can produce a passable SMG.

      Anyone interested should look up the Luty submachine gun.

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fully 3d printed ones, yes. But you can print all the plastic parts of a Glock, buy a kit of parts that don’t require any verification at all and assemble a fully working one that is about as good as a genuine glock.

    Or go a bit further with the FGC-9

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  • weeeeum@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even in one shot the 3d printed gun will explode. The cartridge is just a container for the gun powder, not the explosion. Real guns have a chamber that contains this explosive pressure.

    3d printed guns are nowhere near strong enough to contain this pressure and when the gun fires the bullet is flung harmlessly in some random direction. Since there is almost no energy imparted into the bullet it doesn’t have any power or lethality, heck the shrapnel from the casing is literally more deadly for the shooter than any bullet towards the shootee.

    Heck a 3d printed gun can even fire a bullet at all. Plastic is not rigid enough to detonate the primer and set the round off. You can literally fry bullets in a cheap metal pot and when they explode they won’t even go through the pot.

    The only way you could make a 3d printed gun work is by incorporating tons of other metal parts, at which point it isn’t a “3d printed gun”. Search up pipe shotguns. They can be made with a handful parts from home Depot and only require 1 or 2 tools at home (only 1 if you get them cut at home Depot). Far more effective and actually deadly, even used by guerilla forces against imperial Japan in the Philippines.

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    • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      embedded spark plug fragments, the ceramic, at least that’s what I overheard while minding my own law abiding business having breakfast at Shoney’s.

      The real difficult part, or so I overheard, is the spring needed to generate the force needed to set off the primer, I did not hear of the other obviously dastardly people who were not related to me in any way by blood or association, apart from sharing the same species you see, had come up with a metal detector evading solution.

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  • Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If it’s only 3d printed plastic, yes. Most “3d printed guns” are like Glocks. Metal for the important bits, plastic for everything else.

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    • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hypothetically you could 3d sinter print a chamber but I doubt it would survive more than 3 shots, and would more likely just become high velocity shrapnel through your hand.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What people are doing with “3D printed” guns is printing the receiver or frame components that are otherwise serial numbered and federally regulated, and populating those with metal barrels, slides, upper receivers, trigger assemblies, pins, springs, etc., as appropriate from the genuine item. These can be quite functional and durable, because the majority of the gun is, in fact, still made from “real” gun parts.

    Clever individuals have gotten quite far in managing to print most of the required components, but several critical parts simply can’t be made with consumer level printing technology. At present it is impossible to fully print a gun out of plastic and actually have it work.

    The way federal law works, the ATF has identified and decided what constitutes the minimum identifiable major “gun part” of a given model of firearm, which is the part that must bear the serial number and is the component that cannot be sold without a background check through an FFL. For the Armalite platform, for instance, it is the lower receiver which is a component that can be 3D printed. The upper receiver is not a regulated part. For many polymer framed pistols like Glocks, the grip housing and frame is the FFL component. These can typically be 3D printed as well. But some guns, like the PTR/HK 91 and Sig P250 it’s not the frame, it’s the trigger assembly that’s the FFL item. You can’t effectively 3D print one of those – although you could probably manufacture one with a milling machine pretty easily.

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  • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was watching some videos, they look pretty sturdy.

    Apparently rebels in Myanmar are even using them.

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    • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t they still use metal parts? Or was it 100% 3D printed?

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• andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the reason is because legislators are looking for gun restrictions that can pass, and the combination of legislative obstruction and the Supreme Courts recent ruling against pretty much any gun law written after 1860 or something has basically made it impossible to regulate the purchase of actual guns. So now they’re looking for whatever law they can pass regardless of whether it makes sense.

  It’s fucked up.

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  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Illinois has the foid system. You get a card that basically says that you’re legally allowed to own a gun. You need this card to buy ammunition and guns and to possess a gun. It’s not a bad system, problem is that Indiana and Wisconsin are so close to Chicago.

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is federally illegal to buy a handgun outside your home state, and many states include rifles in this. They can be purchased technically, but they have to be shipped to an FFL dealer in your state for the NICs check. Even in states that will sell rifles to out of state IDs, the rifle still has to be legal in their home state and they have to follow all the laws of that state. IL specifically, if you go into any FFL in the country, you’ll be told “we’re sorry, can’t help you” because of their laws.

      I know the news pretends that none of that is true, but it is. Not likely people will know that though unless they have either tried it as a customer or worked in an FFL, I’m just informing not talking shit (sometimes intent gets lost through text, just clarifying.)

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    • GooseFinger@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just to clarify, the FOID approval process is effectively performed in every state for any gun purchase. It’s not like the FOID background check carries more scrutiny or anything. If a Texan resident can buy guns in Texas, they could get a FOID card if they lived in Illinois.

      And it’s federally illegal to sell guns to non-residents of the state the sale is made in, so Chicago residents can’t buy guns in neighboring states. Indiana and Wisconsin residents could bring guns into Chicago, but that alone is highly illegal too.

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    • hglman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds like chicago needs to do something about how close those other states are.

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    • andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That sounds very reasonable.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    basically made it impossible to regulate the purchase of actual guns.

    Currently, the purchase of actual guns is still federally regulated, so it seems possible. What they keep striking down is meaningless feature bans and the states that want to lock carrying only to the rich and famous, which imo is also fucked up.

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    • andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What I’m talking about specifically is NY v. Bruen. The supreme Court ruled that states can’t pass gun restrictions that aren’t reflective of historical tradition.

      As you can imagine, that makes drafting gun restrictions that are permitted under this reading of the construction nearly impossible.

      This kind of ban on 3d printers is an terrible but not unsurprising consequence of this really batshit ruling.

      pbs.org/…/supreme-court-ruling-creates-turmoil-ov…

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• rxbudian@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are probably makerspaces in NY where people can drop in and print stuff

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• uis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Time to make reprap.

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• evidences@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Any 3d printer capable of printing a gun” seems pretty broad but wouldn’t 3d print kits get around this easily. Like if I buy a prusa MK4 it can print gun parts out of the box but a pile of parts ain’t printing shit.

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  • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t really think anyone expects this political theater law to be effective in anything except suppressing the growing 3d printing community in one of the world’s largest tech centers.

    Shooting themselves in the foot with a good old fashioned normal gun, it seems.

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• AE5NE@lemmy.radio ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • TonyStew@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    "You made us make this inane law"

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  • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Chris Rock had the correct idea over a decade ago

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    • AE5NE@lemmy.radio ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think they limit your total ammo inventory in some Nordic country. You have to bring back casings to buy more ammo - solves two problems.

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    • weeeeum@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In all seriousness improvised ammunition isn’t very hard and it’s doable. All you really need is primer powder and some kind of explosive. I won’t say how but both can be easily made and are pretty readily available. In the rare cases of id required, you can just start asking friends and neighbors if they have any handy.

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah he did, only rich people deserve to protect themselves, fuck the poors!

      Wait…

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• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From a digital model

  Get ready for analog printing, boys

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  • freedumb@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Punched cards making a comeback soon?

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Think of all the sweet arcs and Bezier curves you could pull off with analog, though…

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