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Idiots who don't understand 3D printers pass laws regulating 3D printers to supposedly prevent gun violence. Gun violence unaffected. News at 11.
Replace 3D printers with x, choose gun violence or child safety - any law undermining our freedom and creating surveillance these days
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.
Meanwhile, you can go to the hardware store and make yourself a shotgun for less than the cost of a fast food meal but nobody is talking about regulating pipes.
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.
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.
Unexpected firefly :)
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.
10/10 its probably easier faster and more reliable to make a gun from shit I can find at homedepot. Hell you could even make it use what ever you want for ammo and propellent.
California needs to wise up and realize that you can make functional firearms out of $20 worth of hardware store parts.
You want California to be logical when it comes to firearms? You're going to be waiting awhile buddy
P.A. Luty's expedient homemade firearms
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.
Prusa actually sells an official airgapped Core One for Critical Infrastructure.
"request a quote"
Ya I'm gonna say that's a $2500+ printer
It is, but the reason for not showing the price is because it's tailored to customer security requirements.
Retail is $2K, and there's a lot more that goes into the crit infra edition, as well as paperwork and accreditations.
I'm not saying it's not worth the price, just that it's not a ready made replacement for the average consumer.
Nah, if you're right, you should also ban the sale of any type of bench milling machine (manual or CNC): anything I can 3D print, I can probably mill just as easily
Errm read the article and don't see any mention of Bambu - what did they do ?
laughs in PRUSA
Well to be fair as a REALLY big fan of 3dprinting bambulab printers are extremely reliable.But.. Yeah no one need to know who I am and what I print
time for underground 3d printers
“Scans for 3D printed firearm” yeah okay. It’s totally going to detect that with 100% accuracy.
How about we take California's law and push it somewhere else?
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.
I wonder how many "Ban Boaty!" t-shirts I can sell to propenents of this.
