Decline into censorship

Putting the responsibility on the 3D printer manufacturers to make their printers able to somehow detect and stop the production of anything that could be used as a gun part is completely asinine and shows that those lawmakers have zero understanding of 3D printing, technology, and guns in general.

How could software possibly be able to tell the difference between a curtain bracket I just custom made to replace one that broke and an auto firing device that could be made for one of the hundreds of thousands of different types of firearms available on the market that could take a nearly infinite number of different shapes that could resemble anything else and still work? It's downright wishful thinking to believe this could be even remotely feasible.

It would also be unbelievably intrusive, while completely ineffective and force all open source-based 3D printers, which is pretty much the majority of them, to become proprietary and locked-in. And given the fines, even if one slips through and is made in considerable quantity it would just put 3D printer manufacturers out of business.

I can guarantee you that 3D printer manufacturers will simply refuse to do business in New York if they ever passed that.

This makes just about much sense as ordering carmakers to make cars that never crash and fine them out of business if even one crash ever happens.