NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer::Requires a criminal history background check for the purchase of a three-dimensional printer capable of creating firearms; prohibits sale to a person who would be disqualified on the basis of criminal history from being granted a license to possess a firearm.

  • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Requires a criminal history background check for the purchase of a three-dimensional printer capable of creating firearms

    How do you even begin to prove a 3D printer isn’t capable of producing a firearm? Oh, never mind. the law is even worse than I thought.

    ANY RETAILER OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER SOLD IN THIS STATE WHICH IS CAPABLE OF PRINTING A FIREARM, OR ANY COMPONENTS OF A FIREARM

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      Yeah, you can make a firearm with a piece of bamboo (this is basically what the first firearms were). To think you can restrict anyone from making a firearm is insane. You literally wouldn’t be allowed to own anything if the capability of it making parts of a firearm is restricted. Drill press, lathe, and just about any tool should be restricted if that’s the requirement.

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        These types of gun control laws seem like they are less about guns and more about control. I don’t like it.

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          lol wasn’t the first gun law in America enacted to keep Black Americans from buying or possessing firearms?

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            Yup. In California, in fact. By a Republican governor named Ronald Reagan.

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          With all the wonderful things 3d printers can do they chose to focus on one thing. Effectively removing rights from people who never got to exercise them.

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            There’s a certain section of Democrats for whom as soon as you say “guns” they turn off their brains and vote for whatever they’re told to.

            Much like “immigrants” or any number of right wing triggers. There’s fewer of them on the left but they work the same way.

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        It seems pretty clear that this is trying to target the production of switch devices that turn firearms fully automatic

        Then they’re even dumber than I thought, since those can be made with a coat hanger and a set of needle nose pliers.