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New York proposes background checks for 3D printer purchases — the bill combats 3D-printed guns
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Furthermore one can build a functional shotgun out of a steering wheel lock, a nail, and a hacksaw in about 30 minutes.
Anyone with access to your average hardware store can walk out with materials to make guns, napalm, plastic explosives, toxic gas, bombs, lethal traps, hand grenades, body armor, incendiary devices, and whatever else so long as they take a few hours to think about how to do it and read a couple resources.
Unless they start requiring background checks to go to the fucking home depot, this does nothing.