Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, legislators amended the bill to make it even more confusing, while failing to address the risks to privacy, speech, and consumer rights. We must renew our call on legislators to drop this bill as it heads to the state senate, and protect the tools of creators in the state.
Thats a perfectly succinct analogy.
Pretty sure you could make a gun too, which is the point of this 3D printer thing
And like what about other CNC machines?
I like that California is on the frontier of many tech laws, but this and the age thing are particularly dumb lately
I made an AR15 with a hobby drill press from Lowes at work. Give me a hunk of metal, a micrometer and a file and I can make you a gun.
Or worse.
And that is illegal, as it should be. The efficacy of a law has nothing to do with whether it’s moral.
It’s like saying “we don’t have the manpower to police murder effectively, so we are gonna legalize murder”. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what the law is fucking for.
No its not illegal:
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/privately-made-firearms
You can’t make a machine gun or other items on the NFA list though.
A homemade AR15 is completely legal to be made at the federal level.
The rest of your comment is off base.
I’m pretty sure that’s already illegal in CA
I think at this point it easier to list what isn’t illegal in California.
Are the laws sound and moral? That’s the only important metric, it doesn’t matter how many laws you have. It’s not like you go, oh shit, we have to keep it under a hundred thousand so now we can’t make new laws around AI data centers because that’s just too many!
lol you again, who decides whats “moral”?
And WTF are you bringing data centers into a post about 3D printing and California’s draconian laws?
Neat, I would’ve assumed you’d need a mill or a lathe, not just a drill press. Kinda want to know how to do it myself, since I own the former but not either of the latter.
It won’t be accurate or be a long baller w/o a lathe to make a rifled barrel. Not that you couldn’t mke a barrel with hand tools, it just would be very difficult.
And like others have said, only the lower receiver is the controlled item. You goto Brownels and can buy 98% of an AR w/o a background check.
The upper reciever is the load bearing part on an Armalite, but it’s also not the regulated part. The lower receiver is, and all you need for that is a box that holds the trigger components in vaguely the right place, a hole that lines up the magazine, a hole to stick the buffer tube into at the back, and some way to nail the upper receiver to it.
You could carve an AR lower out of wood if you were dedicated enough.
Guess I ought to go find a set of machining schematics.
If you’re near me I’ll loan you the gig, the end mills,and support to make an AR lower in about 2 hours.
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Please explain how I can “do literally anything productive with my life” when I’m murdered by MAGA fascists because I had no means to defend myself.
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Shovel AK is a thing too. There are stencils out there for it.
Gah how can I forget about the shovel AK???
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lol ok…
Nobody tell California about a nail combined with certain diameters of pipe, because guess what, those can become guns too.
And that is illegal and you’ll rightly spend a lot of time in jail for doing that, shit you can go to prison for suggesting it.
zip guns, lets bring in slam fired shotguns.
Never doubt the ingenuity of man killing other men.
Thank god we have laws prohibiting and enforcing it then.
No we don’t, check the ppost with this link
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/privately-made-firearms
I can make guns all day long and you can’t do anything about it.
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Pipe bombs are not exactly uncommon. Most of those are exactly that. Pipe and nails, packed with homemade explosives.
If I’m not mistaken, this DOES cover ALL manufacturing devices, and if it doesn’t, it will in the future
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This isn’t gun control though. It’s surveillance.
Yeah I’ve lived in CA for about 10 years now and have loved it, but the new laws they are passing are making it extremely likely that I’ll be moving soon. Especially with tje fact that we are either getting either Becerra who’s in Big AI and Big Oils pocket.