Brickbat: Printer Precautions
A member of the New York state legislature wants people to be fingerprinted and pass a criminal background check before they can buy a 3D printer. Democratic state Sen. Jenifer Rajkumar says such printers can be used to make and sell untraceable guns. The bill doesn't specify what will happen to those who already own 3D printers or to those who buy them from private sellers or from out of state.
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I was planning to use my 3D printer to make something far more dangerous than an untraceable firearm: a Democratic Party state senator that thinks background checks and fingerprinting are needed to purchase 3D printers.
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I don’t think that they make a material that can do that in a 3d printer. Last I heard they couldn’t get Shit to feed to the heater element correctly.
She shouldn’t worry, once they ban all fossil fuels there won’t be any printers, metal or plastic.
Fingerprint and background check all the
uterusuntraceable CO2 generator 3D printer havers.She’d have a freaking cow if she realized how easy it is for me to walk out of a store with a semiautomatic firearm. Done it with ease. No interest in shooting anyone though.
Store? She’d shit herself if she knew my last semiautomatic purchase was done in public parking lot. This transaction included mags and ammo.
They should just outlaw loopholes.
The bill doesn’t specify what will happen to those who already own 3D printers or to those who buy them from private sellers or from out of state.
Not to mention the explicit design of several printers is also oriented about being able to make your own. In practice, it’s usually much easier to have a 3D printer first. However, absent motors and control boards, already own, buy locally or out of state, *or make their own* printer would be required to address every 3D printer.
Jeezus, do I have to think of everything? Just fingerprint and background check everyone buying 3D printer parts.
Right. You’d be fingerprinting everyone buying control boards, stepper motors, and heated beds, many of which would have nothing at all to do with 3D printing, let alone 3D printing guns (odds they’re doing other similar, fractionally-scary, independent science-y stuff is pretty good though).
Elect fascists, get fascism.
Senator Rajkumar some 3D Ds:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenifer_Rajkumar
I was going to say that the bio pic has been well shot and that she’s between a butterface and Monet, but that would be unfair to Claude Monet. Really, it’s more like Picasso.
We need to register all printers and users just in case they print something we don’t like.
You can take my Prusa when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands.
They do know that the most popular 3d printers are actually open-source – the parts are COTS and the structural pieces have designs that can be downloaded and made yourself?
No, of course they don’t. Same as with the ‘gas-operated’ gun ban being circulated now. When you read it its obvious that the writers didn’t know what ‘gas operated’ means.
If I was going to make a gun, I wouldn’t use my 3D printer. I’d use my Bridgeport and metal lathe.
I’d use my Bridgeport and metal lathe.
Both rather respectable choices for killing machines but the gun works better at a distance.
One time when I was unemployed, I got a few temporary licenses for some different CAD software. I learned how to use them by doing machine drawings of the parts for the guns I have. I had to reverse engineer some of the parts so that I could make them on the Bridgeport and lathe. I even figured out a rifling jig using a carbide cutter. I still have the drawings and 3D models.
But what about welders and hand tools? Someone could make an untraceable getaway car!
Gosh, didn’t they do this for printing presses soon after they were invented? Gotta register with the state before you can print books. Seems like this is the same thing. The old is new again, which is why conservatives love modern government.
Not looking forward to the inevitable harm to society from the printer show loophole.
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