New York’s state budget could pass within days. Buried deep in the text is a provision that has nothing to do with balancing the books. Part C of the budget bill would require every 3D printer sold in New York to run surveillance software that scans every design file you create, and blocks anything an algorithm flags as a potential firearm component . A separate provision would expose researchers, journalists, and educators to felony charges simply for possessing or sharing certain design files.
edit: somebody complained the url isn’t a eff domain, so here’s the eff site linking to this petition/url: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-3d-printing
Literally Think of the firearms!
Most people effected by this will be normies browsing for a printer for their kids. No one illegally printing guns will give any kind of a fuck when they have a garage full of DIY printers.
So yeah, it’s just another way to spy on people.
Don’t even need a DIY printer. No software is going to figure out every way it’s possible to split up a firearm into smaller parts that can be glued or screwed together.
Maybe they will be filtering based upon the file name and description :-)
Noted, totally_not_a_gun_pinky_promise.stl will print just fine
And people are buying printers that require cloud connections.