| ▲ | SirMaster 24 days ago |
| But not CNC machines? |
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| ▲ | gpm 24 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Looks like them too, both subtractive and additive manufacturing. Not bending sheet metal though. |
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| ▲ | pimlottc 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The legislations includes CNC mills. |
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| ▲ | 9875325996435 23 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Democrats wouldn't never be caught setting foot in a workshop. |
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| ▲ | leetrout 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And muzzleloaders are pretty well unregulated. |
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| ▲ | jdc0589 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| invest in manual mills now, profit later. |
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| ▲ | andy_ppp 24 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yeah they should also ban metal working in New York... The stupidest thing is you can go to another state and buy a gun in Walmart, why even bother to build a plastic gun in the US? |
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| ▲ | blehn 24 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Obviously to have an unregistered gun? | |
| ▲ | bluescrn 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | To get it through security somewhere with metal detectors. That's probably the only reason to specifically fear a 3D-printed gun in a nation full of proper guns. Of course, 3D printed plastic ammo isn't likely to be very effective. (Maybe they're worried that before long, 3D printing with metal will almost as easy and affordable as plastic 3D printing is now, and people will be printing off entire arsenals of very effective firearms?) | | |
| ▲ | andy_ppp 24 days ago | parent [-] | | So what are you going to do behind the metal detectors with your plastic gun and no bullets? If you want to do huge amounts of harm (and kill yourself in the process) in the US it’s pretty clear you can do that without the need of a slow plastic gun that may just explode. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 24 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is this a real question? Legally buying guns in the US come with registration of serial numbers, names, and addresses. Printing a gun does not. Printing a gun also does not need to wait for a multi-day delay from a background check. Depending on the printer, it could just take multiple days to print. Asking why someone would want to do this is just not trying very hard in the conversation is actually pretty myopic. | | |
| ▲ | tastyfreeze 24 days ago | parent [-] | | > Legally buying guns in the US come with registration of serial numbers, names, and addresses. It is illegal for the government to make a registry of gun owners. There is an electronic check to clear you as a legal gun owner but there is no registry. | | |
| ▲ | rangestransform 24 days ago | parent [-] | | It’s only theoretically non searchable, IIRC each submitted document has to be OCRed every time a search is ran on the documents, and this is enough of a legal fig leaf to qualify it as not a registry. A sizeable GPU farm would make this basically a moot point. | | |
| ▲ | tastyfreeze 24 days ago | parent [-] | | Oh I agree. It is very likely that the electronic checks are recorded and could be used as a non-official registry of gun owners. I removed my comment to that effect because it is speculation. But, electronic records are so easily recorded that I have little doubt that the electronic checks are in fact an illegal registry. | | |
| ▲ | rangestransform 23 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I could go on a whole tirade about how policing should not scale with technology, Katz v. USA was decided when surveillance had to be done with still images and film cameras, but the horse left the barn long ago and nobody really gives a shit about the constitution anymore. | |
| ▲ | dylan604 24 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | can the police not use a found weapon's serial number to determine its owner? how can they do that if there's no registry with that info? | | |
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