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I should buy a 3D printer. At university I knew a man who said any time the government wanted to make something illegal to buy he felt a compulsion to buy it. I think I see what he means now.
I should buy a 3D printer. At university I knew a man who said any time the government wanted to make something illegal to buy he felt a compulsion to buy it. I think I see what he means now.
It's definitely not a bad time to join 3d printing industry. Much more mature than what it was even 5+ yrs ago
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Should you 3d print an auto sear (a little bracket-looking thing) then you're in possession of a machine gun, which is illegal.
Why was this downvoted? The federal laws do state that "possession of specific machine gun parts is considered possession of a machine gun" Machine gun sears included. Also parts that convert a semi-automatic into a machine gun like a Lightening Link.
Unregistered machine guns are illegal to possess regardless of how they were made.
3D printing an otherwise legal firearm is not illegal at the Federal level in the United States.
The exchange boils down to:
Comment: That isn't illegal.
Reply: well, if you do this other thing that's illegal, it is.
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It's definitely not a bad time to join 3d printing industry. Much more mature than what it was even 5+ yrs ago
What is a good 3D printer?
So many companies are putting out "out of the box" wonder printers right now that I would just engage in a few weeks of YouTube watching. A printer release could come out tomorrow that completely changes the value proposition of whatever you were looking at. Funny enough, size matters -- if you want to print helmets in one piece, you have to look at larger printers.
What makes a 3D printer different from a lathe or a CNC?
Good point, because without CNC, with 3d printers solely you couldn't do a firearm that do more of 1 shot. CNC are more "dangerous" for firearm production. This bill is a show of ignorance of the legislators.
Designed with the explicit intent of containing no parts that are regulated as firearm components in Europe. Including the barrel, which is manufactured using 3D printed jigs and a bench top power supply.
These are in active use right now, most notably by anti-junta rebels in Myanmar, who have literally been running print farms in the jungle to produce them.
What next, they'll ban transporting 3D printers across state borders and have the cops go around knocking down doors hunting for unlicensed 3D printers? Otherwise people would just buy them interstate.
Ban stepper motors as the precursor to 3d printers. Shit, ban copper wire.
What next, they'll ban transporting 3D printers across state borders and have the cops go around knocking down doors hunting for unlicensed 3D printers? Otherwise people would just buy them interstate.
Ban stepper motors as the precursor to 3d printers. Shit, ban copper wire.
No matter what you think about the potential of 3D printers, just consider that at any given time there are folds more people printing the Rocktopus or hose couplers than there are firearms.
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It's definitely not a bad time to join 3d printing industry. Much more mature than what it was even 5+ yrs ago
What is a good 3D printer?
If you want a great DIY printer then VORON is the one to beat.
Lots of people love the Bamboolabs printers.
That amendment is so overly broad the author should be forced to re-take some sort of how to draft bills class. It would require fingerprinting for purchases of "certain 3D printers". What does that even mean? I guess the existing law defined what "firearm" means in the context of that law, but if I was a retailer selling 3D printers, I would have some serious questions about it. My 5-year-old entry level 3D printer…
When you see a "ready to go bill," it's either been through a dozen-step process in this legislative session OR it's been brought up in a dozen different sessions and been improved along the way as legislators have to re-introduce all the bills they are sponsoring in each legislative session.
The legislator is not an expert in the issue, and I doubt she's claiming she is. She's proposing the broad strokes of a solution to a problem she sees. The point is not to pass the bill in its current form – it's to figure out how to solve the problem, using this general idea as the starting point.