As a longtime member of the 3D-printing community, I'm alarmed by new legislation targeting the digital files, platforms, and machines that create weapons. It raises a powerful question: Who decides what can be made?
you can download gun breakdown files online for use in videogames, you can even crack games that already exist with those files present. you can also just model them yourself for free in blender. theres literally no way to stop literally anyone from making their own guns. the unabomber made one in his shack with spare parts and basic tools decades before 3d printers were a thought in the publics minds.
I find it quite hard to believe it would be able to detect innocuous, dual-use, off the shelf components spread out over a dozen prints.
Even US export controls can’t prevent that, only delay and cause irritation.
“It” doesn’t have to be any good at it:
https://blog.princelaw.com/2009/07/08/nfa-and-constructive-possession-myth-or-reality/
you can download gun breakdown files online for use in videogames, you can even crack games that already exist with those files present. you can also just model them yourself for free in blender. theres literally no way to stop literally anyone from making their own guns. the unabomber made one in his shack with spare parts and basic tools decades before 3d printers were a thought in the publics minds.
if there is a will, there is a way
Unabomber made bombs, it’s in the name.
He apparently also made a gun out of wood and metal and kept it as a self defense weapon in his cabin