There’s been a flood of new state laws placing restrictions on 3D printing that are driven by sloppy moral panics about 3D printed guns (and a desire by large manufacturers to dominate the ma…
  • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    It’s almost like a strong, centralized government with power over our everyday lives can be easily subverted into doing things we don’t really want it to do.

    Huh

    Weird.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 hours

    That was the idea. Tech companies don‘t want us to have nice things because it makes their products look all the more shitty. And so they attack anything open source that they don‘t directly benefit from. Some investors are probably seeing the shitty ink printer business and hope they can degrade 3D printing to that degree too. They take any opportunity to fuck the small people for a chance of making an easy buck.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 hours

      This has nothing to do with the tech industry. This is the firearms industry 100%.

      • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
        2 hours

        If the firearms industry think that a 3d printed gun is good enough to compete with them, they are selling shitty products.

        It is more plausible that they want to control the 3d printed guns because they are not able (or willing) to stop the people who want to commit some kind of crimes and cannot buy a gun from building one (since, as I understand, to buy the components it seems you have not to undergo a backgroubd check).

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.comEnglish
    20 hours

    California needs to wise up and realize that you can make functional firearms out of $20 worth of hardware store parts. They can’t stop the signal.

    Shinzo Abe got his cheeks clapped with a homemade gun in a country with roughly zero legal civilian firearms, and a violent crime rate of less than 1 per 100,000.

    Can’t stop the signal.

    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlineEnglish
      1 hour

      Best part about the Abe story is that there is no evidence his shooter resorted to using a 3D printer or any 3D printed part.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      14 hours

      They probably know this perfectly well. But there are corporations and their lobbyists to think of, and they’d much prefer it if ordinary people weren’t able to build their own devices and spare parts, but instead had to buy them at inflated prices.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    18 hours

    What they want is not about guns. It’s about checking all your prints to make sure you are not printing something you can buy retail, or an overpriced plastic appliance part.

    Fuck BAMBU labs, let’s get back to air gapped printers.

  • saltnotsugar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 hours

    “Scans for 3D printed firearm” yeah okay. It’s totally going to detect that with 100% accuracy.