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NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer
(www.nysenate.gov)
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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Is this what the democrats think is important legislation right now?
You can make a firearm in a shitty garage shop way cheaper than the both monetary investment and time investment that comes with using a 3D printer.
People in fuckinh prisons make improvised firearms
This is a waste of time.
It's not about making firearms. It's about being able to make literally anything else, the ability to do so being something that would liberate individuals, to some extent, from the capitalist system. That's what they really don't want.
Uh, I'm pretty sure this is about firearms.
Yes and voter literacy tests were about making sure people were smart enough to vote. /s
You're right. This is definitely about protecting the US service economy from people manufacturing their own plastic trinkets. /s Just to be clear: I think this is a stupid bill, but it absolutely tracks with concern/hysteria around 'ghost guns'. No need to consult the tea leaves to figure this one out.
Lol
If they didn't want people having firearms, by golly there's some lower hanging fruit.
In New York?
This is correct. Although I'm not sure what the actual viability of using a 3d printer for cutting the costs of living in society is. From my understanding you can only kind of recycle proper 3d printer grade PLA plastic and you definitely can't make 3d printer plastic out of trash. Machine tools on the other hand can accomplish many of the same things and a greater percentage of the stuff that goes with them can be made out of trash or scrap.
You can recycle PET bottles, you probably don't use enough PLA packing to be effectively able to recycle it even if it weren't degraded.
True.
But a milling machine (not even a CNC) costs and weighs more than a car.
Meh. 3D printer plastic goes for like $24 a pound on Amazon whereas almost everything you buy costs hundreds and is disposable largely because their cheap, shitty plastic frames aren't repairable. Being able to 3D print your own frames for electronics or tools or machines would save you so much money in the long run.
But the powers that be don't want that. That's the real reason why they've had it out for 3D printers. Printing guns is just an excuse.
Eh. With how tribalist American politics has become, it's usually only a matter of throwing shit to the wall to see what sticks.
This may not stick, but if it does you can bet your sweet ass it will be a primary issue for democrats.