Video series worth a watch from 3D Printing Nurd.
These videos talk about the additive printing bill and how it essentially looking to make any “uncertified” 3d printer or even CNC machines illegal.
Strictest 3D Printing Regulation YET! California AB2047: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ax9zW0w_gY
3D Printing in California Can Be Saved! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGvvEuIPJxA
The FINAL Hearing in California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6fpPStIAsY
This is just the dumbest thing ever… So I can’t print a grip for a camera?
When you consider how many students were shoot with 3d printed guns… Oh wait, those were all manufactured by a proper business, carry on then, we don’t want to interrupt big businesses.
New laws in California and New York might stop people from 3D printing guns
It absolutely, positively, will not do that. If someone wants to print a gun, no legislation is going to stop them. It could at best, slow them down by maybe an hour, as they find, download and install different firmware for their printer.
If you want to prevent people from printing guns, you’ll need a different tactic, because that won’t do it.
Not too sure about this but, um… Can’t you just print it offline?..
This goes way, way beyond ‘guns.’ It is an assault on property rights and freedom of expression as concepts generally. It would fully outlaw Free Software firmware (which is what the entire 3D printer hobby, having started with the RepRap project, is based on!). It would cut the Maker movement as a whole off at the knees.
It’s absolute tyranny in ways entirely unrelated to guns themselves.
“might stop anyone from 3D printing guns”
I can guarantee you that it won’t even do that.
It absolutely will not stop some people. But those are not the ones committing gun crimes
The overhang on that snake’s head and the tail’s end not even touching the build plate is borderline impossible, also yellow and black yet only showing a printer that has one yellow roll and we think that the machine can’t swap filaments either. So unrealistic :P
I’m no gun person, but you could easily make a gun on a lathe or a mill drill, too. Get a CNC one and you don’t even need to know how to use them.
Are we going to start fitting them with “you might be making a gun” detectors, too? Of course not.
Edit: Turns out they are… I choose to blame my ignorance on the paywall.
Are we going to start fitting [CNC lathes and mills] with “you might be making a gun” detectors, too? Of course not.
I’ve got some bad news for you about just how fucked-up these proposed laws actually are.
I’m pretty sure the law says any machine that takes sets of automated instructions, which includes CNC cutters and lathes
A “ghost gun” is any gun without a serial number.
So you have to ban more than the 3D printer data files.
You will need to ban metal files as well. That’s how real ghost guns are made.
They’ll get there. They hate the idea of individual people being able to make things for themselves or having any other escape from consumer serfdom.
How big of a problem is this even? I’ve only heard one case of someone using a ghost gun in a murder and that didn’t stop the police from finding the suspect.
This is just dumb people being bought by gun lobby groups…on top of all of this bullshit, guns are %100 legal to make. It’s not illegal to make a firearm for personal use, even if you could 3d print one completely.
Know you’re local laws. It IS illegal to 3d print guns in NY amd CA already.
California it is illegal, but NY is not.
NY requires a FFL or gunsmith license
California you can only make 3 a per year without a FFL license.
And that’s why everyone needs to know their local laws!
I’m not suggesting anyone ever even touch a firearm before they know the laws. The laws and rules by not only the ATF but local governments is insanely convoluted.
Real glad I may have allegedly acquired a printer at some point in the last six years.
Allegedly.
If you make it illegal to 3D-print guns, only criminals will have 3D-printed guns.
