* Gun ownership should be much more tightly regulated in the US.
* Requiring 3D printers to block production of firearms is worse than useless.
How would that even work from a technological perspective? If it did work, why would 3d printer jailbreaks not be the immediate result? I would use jailbroken firmware on principal.
The ATF can barely even define what a gun is. Todays platforms are modular so essentially they choose the largest, non-ware part and put the serial number there. That one part then becomes the "gun". In some cases that part doest even resemble a gun at all.
Will the restriction apply to addative manufacturing as well? will they also limit subtractive manufacturing like CNC? CNC is older, and capable of producing actual high quality firearms. Why not start there?
Are they going to limit highend commercial 3d printers? There exist farms of very high end printers that create parts on demand out of plastic and metal. whats going to happen to their business if parts get randomly flagged as a "gun" because some AI halucinates?
Are they going to ban producing toy guns and props?
Ill stop now, i feel like ive already put more thought into this than the legislators have.
For such a tech and adv. manufacturing dependent state, WA certainly has pushed some conspicuous and myopic regulations since 2016. With the coming income tax creep, seems we’re marching towards the bloat of California sans any of the benefits(consumer data laws, digital/real ID, etc).
It bothers me a lot that our elected representatives are wasting time and money on pointless nonsense like this.
The people sponsoring this law certainly have no idea how to implement this gun manufacturing restriction and America’s gun problem isn’t coming from 3D printers anyway. I would like to believe that these 26 representatives aren’t incompetent so I have to assume this bill is entirely performative.
Funny, I always assumed that incompetence was a prerequisite for political representatives. Competent people always seem to find more productive uses for their time.
Reminder that in most US states it's perfectly legal to manufacture firearms at home for personal use as long as you're not a prohibited person, or making a controlled item like a machine gun.
You don't even need to register it.
Though you can't manufacture it with intent to sell.
Also, check your state laws first, some states have different laws.
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 39.2 ms ] thread* Gun ownership should be much more tightly regulated in the US.
* Requiring 3D printers to block production of firearms is worse than useless.
How would that even work from a technological perspective? If it did work, why would 3d printer jailbreaks not be the immediate result? I would use jailbroken firmware on principal.
3-D firmware restriction? Good luck with that. Open-source 3-D printer software makes this next to impossible.
Will the restriction apply to addative manufacturing as well? will they also limit subtractive manufacturing like CNC? CNC is older, and capable of producing actual high quality firearms. Why not start there?
Are they going to limit highend commercial 3d printers? There exist farms of very high end printers that create parts on demand out of plastic and metal. whats going to happen to their business if parts get randomly flagged as a "gun" because some AI halucinates?
Are they going to ban producing toy guns and props?
Ill stop now, i feel like ive already put more thought into this than the legislators have.
The people sponsoring this law certainly have no idea how to implement this gun manufacturing restriction and America’s gun problem isn’t coming from 3D printers anyway. I would like to believe that these 26 representatives aren’t incompetent so I have to assume this bill is entirely performative.
You don't even need to register it.
Though you can't manufacture it with intent to sell.
Also, check your state laws first, some states have different laws.
I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.