2023-A8132
www.nysenate.gov
Requires a criminal history background check for the purchase of a three-dimensional printer capable of creating firearms; prohibits sale to a person who would be disqualified on the basis of criminal history from being granted a license to possess a firearm.

NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer::Requires a criminal history background check for the purchase of a three-dimensional printer capable of creating firearms; prohibits sale to a person who would be disqualified on the basis of criminal history from being granted a license to possess a firearm.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, you can make a firearm with a piece of bamboo (this is basically what the first firearms were). To think you can restrict anyone from making a firearm is insane. You literally wouldn’t be allowed to own anything if the capability of it making parts of a firearm is restricted. Drill press, lathe, and just about any tool should be restricted if that’s the requirement.

    • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
      113·
      1 year ago

      It seems pretty clear that this is trying to target the production of switch devices that turn firearms fully automatic, to which I would recommend going after the social media companies that allow these devices to be sold openly on their platforms. That’s where these devices are coming from. Sure, plenty of them came out of a 3D printer, but most people on the street with them bought them from somebody else, no matter how they were manufactured.

      Just enforce existing laws against switches, ghost guns, and automatic firearms, and go after any company that enables or profits from their sale. Regulating 3D printer sales won’t solve the issue, because 3D printers are actually somewhat trivial to build, and you don’t have to print these things in New York to sell them in New York.

        • JewGoblin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          1 year ago

          lol wasn’t the first gun law in America enacted to keep Black Americans from buying or possessing firearms?

          • Khotetsu@lib.lgbtEnglish
            61·
            1 year ago

            Yup. In California, in fact. By a Republican governor named Ronald Reagan.

        • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago

          With all the wonderful things 3d printers can do they chose to focus on one thing. Effectively removing rights from people who never got to exercise them.

          • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            There’s a certain section of Democrats for whom as soon as you say “guns” they turn off their brains and vote for whatever they’re told to.

            Much like “immigrants” or any number of right wing triggers. There’s fewer of them on the left but they work the same way.

      • AtmaJnana@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        It seems pretty clear that this is trying to target the production of switch devices that turn firearms fully automatic

        Then they’re even dumber than I thought, since those can be made with a coat hanger and a set of needle nose pliers.