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Idiots who don't understand 3D printers pass laws regulating 3D printers to supposedly prevent gun violence. Gun violence unaffected. News at 11.
time for underground 3d printers
It's almost like a strong, centralized government with power over our everyday lives can be easily subverted into doing things we don't really want it to do.
Huh
Weird.
That was the idea. Tech companies don‘t want us to have nice things because it makes their products look all the more shitty. And so they attack anything open source that they don‘t directly benefit from. Some investors are probably seeing the shitty ink printer business and hope they can degrade 3D printing to that degree too. They take any opportunity to fuck the small people for a chance of making an easy buck.
This has nothing to do with the tech industry. This is the firearms industry 100%.
If the firearms industry think that a 3d printed gun is good enough to compete with them, they are selling shitty products.
It is more plausible that they want to control the 3d printed guns because they are not able (or willing) to stop the people who want to commit some kind of crimes and cannot buy a gun from building one (since, as I understand, to buy the components it seems you have not to undergo a backgroubd check).
You think we are at a endpoint with 3d printing technology? As technology improves the ability to make better parts will keep increasing.
You are right, it is about control.
There are 3d metal printers that do stainless, inconel, H13, D2. They are expensive but that price will come down over time
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 :)
What they want is not about guns. It's about checking all your prints to make sure you are not printing something you can buy retail, or an overpriced plastic appliance part.
Fuck BAMBU labs, let's get back to air gapped printers.
Nah, if you're right, you should also ban the sale of any type of bench milling machine (manual or CNC): anything I can 3D print, I can probably mill just as easily
Prusa actually sells an official airgapped Core One for Critical Infrastructure.
"request a quote"
Ya I'm gonna say that's a $2500+ printer
Errm read the article and don't see any mention of Bambu - what did they do ?
“Scans for 3D printed firearm” yeah okay. It’s totally going to detect that with 100% accuracy.
How about we take California's law and push it somewhere else?
