Surely it would be much easier to require checks to buy ammunition.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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As a 2nd amendment loving American, I cosign your idea. I'm fine with getting a license to purchase more ammo.
However, I'll make my own before I pay extortion prices.
As people told me yesterday, apparently my state (California) already does that.
Again. This bill was introduced last year, by the same person, and it died at the time because of some grassroots actions. Now, the wording is slightly different (so it can be introduced again as a "different" bill), and it's being tried again.
Im making a charcoal foundry. You gonna card me for briquettes bitchboy?
Make a community with a dude that makes potassium and another dude that makes sulfur and then you can really make things go off
If you're european and ask yourself why 3D printed guns are such an issue in the US: It’s not because entire guns are easy to print (or printable at all), It’s because of their idiotic gun laws: in the US, the only controlled part is the receiver or frame, which often enough is made of plastic anyway, while the most important part -the barrel- is freely obtainable.
Germany has a similar law, except that every part of the gun is controlled.
Luigi would have passed a background check.
And didn't even use his own printer (according to his confession/manifesto)..
was it even printed in new york? I mean im sure someone would never bring one in from jersey.
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Well, that's a broad definition. I guess to whomever wrote that, a CNC mill is also a 3d printer.
It's not like inkjets produce 2 dimensional ink. I'd love to see someone argue in court that it's technically impossible to create a non 3d printer
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A CNC mill seems much more capable of manufacturing firearms than some 300 buck printer.
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You can also technically make a gun with generic plumbing supplies or you could finagle one with random garbage and a drill bit.
Home Depot background checks are next.
and then they use that info to perform a credit check to ensure you’re not a “risk” to let into the store
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Anything to avoid having to actually address the systemic poverty and bigotry ingrained in the system that leads to violence...
From what I understand the "problem" as it's being framed in terms of ghost guns and inner city crime or whatever the buzzword is this year is not hobbyists running off a lower or frame for themselves. None of those guys in the hood and their switches are buying Bambus or building Vorons and suddenly turning into 3D printing gurus -- Someone, or several someones more likely, are deliberately mass manufacturing these things for sale to the criminals which is already thoroughly illegal. Find the gun runners and stomp on them. I thought you guys were supposed to have this big scary police force and surveillance apparatus?
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new york will do anything but fix actual problems lmao
My guy, you got to look at it from the bigger perspective, the whole country will do anything buy fix actual problems
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Gonna require background checks to get plumbing supplies or to go to the hardware store? Cause I can make a gun a hell of a lot easier and quicker with that shit, than I can with a 3d fuckin printer.
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Luigi had no background to check.
This is pure flail.
How stupid, I use my printer to print minis for DnD. But, wait, it could theoretically print a gun, better get a background check, and have a waiting period of 6 months... fucking stupid.
Let's try to address the problems that led to this. Nah, let's try to ban stuff instead.
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