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California’s 3D Printer Law Would Criminalize Open Source, Enshittify The 3D Printing Space
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California needs to wise up and realize that you can make functional firearms out of $20 worth of hardware store parts. They can't stop the signal.
Shinzo Abe got his cheeks clapped with a homemade gun in a country with roughly zero legal civilian firearms, and a violent crime rate of less than 1 per 100,000.
Can't stop the signal.
P.A. Luty's expedient homemade firearms
Best part about the Abe story is that there is no evidence his shooter resorted to using a 3D printer or any 3D printed part.
They probably know this perfectly well. But there are corporations and their lobbyists to think of, and they'd much prefer it if ordinary people weren't able to build their own devices and spare parts, but instead had to buy them at inflated prices.
Unexpected firefly :)