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Good luck with that given 3D printers are full of open-source software.

Yes, because it's so difficult to get a gun in America any other way /s

Clearly she has no idea how 3D printers or guns work

Are they going to require government monitors if you own a CNC machine next?

Taking this purely as an engineering task, how is this remotely possible? I can barely begin to imagine how restrictions on what can be printed could be set. Am I missing something obvious? Some kind of contextual understanding of the object seems to be necessary... please don't tell me their proposed solution is AI.

In any case it will never work because 3D printing is so easy for makers to do from scratch, so any solution will fail to prevent printed guns from being made.

Again, this is just the pragmatic engineering angle. Please don't respond with political arguments.

They should put controls on lathes and mills to prevent making guns. Metal guns are a lot more effective than plastic guns anyways. /s

There is essentially no way to enforce, or even monitor this, like it's fundamentally impossible without controlling everything from stl creation, to weapon construction.

I love technological non-solutions to social problems. They are the only thing the work better then passing more laws that say you can't murder people with guns.

I see 10,000 forks in the near future, and fully decentralized ways of hosting them. God forbid we actually try to regulate real guns, no it's those damn hobbyists who spent thousands on printers!

The pressure behind a bullet ~14,000psi. The pressure that a 3D resin can handle ~ 200psi. Any questions?

Oh yeah, how do 3D printed guns kill? 1) use non 3d printed parts or 2, hold the bullets in the gun-like case, carry a hammer, if you need to shoot the bullet just get the bullet out between two of your fingers, run like crazy towards the target, then bury that sucker with a real nice hammer thud. If you practice real good, you can hit a good 3 or 4 target spots. If you do it it slow enough you can probably hit one bullet with another bullet! Well, you can always do that. Heck you can put 10 bullets or more in a baggie and they will all hit each other.

I guess if you need a ruzzian war diy survivor gun, just go-to the hardware store and get a pipe. No 3D printed stuff. You can make the handle from wood! That's literally all a 3D printer is good for in gun making, the handle. But you can carve one out with a router. Are routers illegal yet because you can make a gun .... handle....?

Trying to stop a printer from printing sounds like a tough ask.

Yeah like that won't be bypassed in about 3 seconds.

Damn it's been a long time since I've had to use the whole thing:

Rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off.

Maybe the dumbest possible idea here from government regulators. You think you're going to somehow legislate certain geometry out of existence? "Sorry, you can't print that ILLEGAL SHAPE with the printer you own!" Same vacant headed assholes that think they can ban encryption. Fuck off, shrivel up and perish, please.

They can explore the requirement, but they will get lost during their expedition.

I built my own 3d printer 👉 👈

Lol, most of this crap is DIY, good luck with that

Boy THAT will work! Good idea government!

Was there a shooting with a printed firearm recently?

Normally this is when the "small government" Republican party says "let's not get government that too involved"....

...that is if they didn't go full reich

Somebody needs to be seen doing something before the next election.

Incidentally, 3d printed parts aren't used for conversion kits. They're machined out of metal stock (and occasionally re-machined original parts).

Prop guns for cosplay gonna get a lot more difficult for now reason if this passes.

where are people distributing 3d printed gun models? I'm guessing thingiverse has already cracked down on weapons

If they could do this, it would be a good idea. It's just not possible.