Can we get the names of these people so we can have their drivers licenses taken away?
Impossible. The only actual discourse I think they have is to either ban 3d printers outright, require that filament/resin etc designed for these is made somehow traceable, or license and/or registrate the purchase and/or used of the printers/filaments.
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.
Yeah good luck with that fuckheads
Trying to stop a printer from printing sounds like a tough ask.
Maybe they can partner with Epson or Brother, they’re pretty good at keeping their printers from printing
Those are angels compared to HP
wootwoot 3d printing mentioned 😎
It’s like governments are trying to get people to listen to them instead of doing their job: listening to what the people want.
Stop making stupid rules and start looking at the causes and work with that. Why do people want 3d printed guns? Well to either protect themselves, do something bad, or for fun because they can. Ok maybe we should look at why the hell do people feel the need to protect themselves instead of letting the police do that? Maybe look at why people do bad things? Hint it’s mostly money, which you are taking away from them. Or try and fight people having “fun”? Well you could always take away the fun with even more rules.
The biggest win of the ones in power was to make the concept of anarchy look like chaos. :)
even if police were perfect plenty of people would still want to do it themselves, as with anything there will be hobbyists. Some hobbies are more legal than others.
Worst thing is, with any systemic rule change, the change js not instant. Allowing something like that would wither cause a spike up in crimes, or we’d feel it down the line. On the other hand, banning them doesn’t make sense, either.
Prop guns for cosplay gonna get a lot more difficult for now reason if this passes.
Exactly what I was thinking. It’s really funny if you think about it. There are currently more guns in the US than there are people. I guess they will combat this by limiting 3d printing.
Was there a shooting with a printed firearm recently?
This isn’t really about safety, it’s about gun manufacturer profits.
Like how machine gun owners don’t support the repeal of the nfa or fopa because it would tank the value of their stamp items.
not sure but I heard they recently caught the FGC-9 designer
EDIT found the story: https://news.sky.com/story/jacob-duygu-incel-who-mysteriously-died-unmasked-as-creator-of-worlds-most-popular-3d-printed-gun-12997178
Irrelevant: the goal is not preventing shootings (I mean, they would go for the obvious solution otherwise)
If they could do this, it would be a good idea. It’s just not possible.
Anyone ever try to photocopy currency?
3d printing != paper printing. It’s largely hobbyist ran technology, and almost entirely open source. You’re not going to get tracking dots or currency replication prevention into open source software.
Oh I know, I’m saying they’re both equally ridiculous.
Money is easy, many currencies have the “Eurion constellation” which can be recognized by the copier. It will be much harder to recognise a 3d printed part to detect something that can be made into a gun.
where are people distributing 3d printed gun models? I’m guessing thingiverse has already cracked down on weapons
Clearly she has no idea how 3D printers or guns work
or the us, isnt it easy to just get a regular gun in there?
It is, yes. But it’s also legal to make your own.
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.
Hit the nail right on the head for what they want. Why do you think they are making laws to ban porn? It’s a hide behind think of the children to get your foot in the door to control more
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.
You can’t 3D print a gun, but you can buy one without a background check. Brilliant.
Think of the stock prices!
