NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer

That's incredibly stupid. Good Lord.

What's next? CNC machines? Silicone/resin casting supplies? Steel pipes?

Are these lawmakers aware of the fact you can 3d print a 3d printer? Or at least, about 80% of its parts, and the remaining parts are indistinguishable from the random stuff youd buy at the hardware store? (Aluminum extrusion mostly, some gears, etc)

The only part they could theoretically hope to control worth a damn would be the printing nozzles, which are so incredibly cheap to buy bulk and nearly impossible to specialize.

Also you could take this to court and point out that you would need to also include CNC machines, Laser Cutters, lathes, and any of the other variations of tools that can be used to manufacture a DIY gun.

This isnt a problem specific to 3d printers, a CNC mill that can cut aluminum is also just as capable of producing the jigs needed to manufacture gun parts.

Silly. Why can't we just regulated the sale of ammunition and gunpowder?

Oh, did we start requiring criminal background checks for pipes and metal stock too? This is the same problem we’re facing in the rest of the country, everything can be used as a weapon, and requiring background checks on all of them is gonna do nothing to stop gun crime. Regulate the damn guns, that is the only thing that will help.

You can easily create a firearm with a short length of steel pipe and a nail. I don't know how this will do anything. Plus people can just drive to another state.

Can anyone name one crime that has been committed with a 3d printed gun from the last 3 years that hasn't been committed 100x more often in the last week with a stolen or illegally obtained gun.

The logic of this is nonexistent. An argument could be made very convincingly that cars are dangerous to allow in the hands of criminals. 2 tons of metal, well known for and capable of ending a life, with the ability to aid criminal enterprises and avoidance of law enforcement. So should car sales now require a criminal background check? All this would do is further disenfranchise convicted felons, regardless of the actual crime committed, and create new difficulties for a group that includes a very high percentage of people already proven to give no shits about the law who will find and exploit ways to continue activities despite any laws attempting to restrict them.

I'm a leftist, I don't support laws like this cause they don't actually do anything. Dems fr have been supporting initivies to fork over more and more data.

What brain dead legislation.

This is just a way to restrict individual freedom from corporate ownership. It's the equivalent of "for the children". If you're against guns don't fall for this bait, support some other legislation.

It's ok, you can still buy them privately at a 3D printer show.

Lol more regulation for 3d printers than guns themselves

Stupid, authoritarian, and dystopian.

Wow, this makes my country's nonsense gun laws look sane.

They do know that even children from 70 years ago where making firearms right? https://newyorkcitygangs.com/?page_id=1708

You can always 3d print a 3d printer

So what will the state of NY do if I buy an Ender-3 in Vermont and then bring it home?

This is just "New Media is scary and I'm old!" Fear Mongering

Counter offer: a bill that will limit the purchase of 3D printers to people with a criminal history.

Has anybody actually successfully produced a proper firearm with a 3D printer? Like, one that doesn't melt after firing a shot? Who are these people who've created this nonsensical panic?

In Soviet Russia, access to photocopiers, mimeographs, etc. was restricted to prevent the dissemination of samizdat.

Makes it look like they're doing something about crime. Doesn't stop anyone from selling or buying them one, though, does it?

Sounds like the war on general-purpose computation manufacturing

LOL

dumb and pointless

How do they plan to run a background check before I click the "buy" button?

Idiots.

Just go into jersey or any surrounding staye and buy the printer and head back to New york

Can't stop the signal.

lmao could you even make a usable firearm with a 3D printer?

Even if you used the best quality material, it would probably explode on the first shot making its aim useless and probably a danger to the user.

Also why not do a background check for idk maybe the gunpowder lol.

Welp I guess I'll have to rely on the black market from now on.

Oh dear, this new law will hit a lot of US "politicians"