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.

  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    3510·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • docmark@lemmy.worldEnglish
        206·
        1 year ago

        Yes and voter literacy tests were about making sure people were smart enough to vote. /s

        • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          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.

      • bane_killgrind@lemmy.mlEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        If they didn’t want people having firearms, by golly there’s some lower hanging fruit.

    • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • aidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        True.

        But a milling machine (not even a CNC) costs and weighs more than a car.

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        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.