I understand the intent, but feel that there are so many other loopholes that put much worse weapons on the street than a printer. Besides, my prints can barely sustain normal use, much less a bullet being fired from them. I would think that this is more of a risk to the person holding the gun than who it’s pointing at.

  • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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    There’s a community that builds 3d printed guns, and those don’t last very long either. They’re not printing barrels, they’re just printing the trigger housing and grip. They go out and buy the dangerous bits.

    This is all a bit pointless.

    Even more pointless when you consider that once you have a 3d printer, you can make a lot of the components for a second 3d printer, and go out and buy the other parts, without ever buying a 3d printer. Now you have two ghost gun machines!! Oh the horror.

    • @JoShmoe@ani.social
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      This is the reason why I need education. CNc machines are the only tools you need. Fast food is probably just CNC assembled.

      • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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        It’s all CNC. All the way down. Always was.

        Seriously, 3d printers are just CNC machines, they use the same code the mill I use that was built in 1989 uses.

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          Yes, they added some new g codes for the extruder bit (even that is just used as an axis), but otherwise you could hand code a 3d print. Probably not a good idea, but could be done. CNC is cool

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      Not to mention the ammo. 3d printed guns are useless without real ammo.

    • @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Tbh, you print em right they’ll last a good 2k rnds and you can rifle the barrel with ECM at home these days, they’d get “the job” done, save an extended firefight, and then “NY reload.”

      That said I agree this is pointless.

      • @cynar@lemmy.world
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        The reprap movement was exactly that. A self replicating rapid prototyper. While it never reached true replication, it got close enough to cause an explosive growth of the community. That, in turn led to the huge number of low cost suppliers and designs we have now.

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        As others have said, the RepRap concept was trying to be that. At first the idea was to 3D print as much of the machine as possible, but what it realistically achieved was you would buy metal frame rails, nuts & bolts, the hot end assembly (a glorified hot glue gun), motors, and a controller board (in many cases literally an arduino) and 3D print connectors and bracketry necessary to hold the thing together. Josef Prusa took the “Mendel” pattern Reprap and simplified it into his now ubiquitous upright plate style “Prusa i3” pattern.

        I’ve built several 3D printers from “scratch” and at least 20 from kits. My own 3D printer has printed many of its own parts.

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    Do I need a background check to buy a CNC? Or a lathe?

    • @YourAvgDuckHead@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I mean, kind of, yes. CNCs have been one of the big items for export controls. Especially if they can be used to build weapons, parts for nuclear subs, etc.

      Generally speaking, lathes and milling machines must be licensed for export if their accuracy exceeds six microns. Grinding machines are controlled at four microns. The Wassenaar Arrangement controls all machine tools capable of simultaneous, five-axis motion, regardless of machining accuracy.

      Source

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    Will they require a background check for CNC machines and lathes as well?

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      They’re eventually just going to demand you’re under AI monitored video surveillance at all times, even while bathing.

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        On a positive note, you’ll be able to buy different subscriptions, so it’s not a complete loss for you. The medical subscription for the probe, which will notify you if it spots any polyps or rectal cancer. Or a “recreational” subscription, where you can engage the vibrating bit that’s near to your prostate.

        Oh the joy when you get a notification on your phone saying “what did we find in your rectum? Pay 50USD to find out” and it’s a piece of corn.

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      Routers and lathes, both CNC and manual … and calipers! The name sounds like something to do with bullets and they look like tiny machine guns.

    • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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      It’s a rounding error… basically just politicians virtue signalling that they’re doing something.

      • @MajesticSloth@lemmy.world
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        I’m reminded of Leland Yee. California politician who was in favor of gun control all while doing gun running stuff himself. Guess he felt gun control was good for business.

    • @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      No, but often gun control is an “if it stops even one” type of thing. Most of it is predicated on mass shootings which are .001% of gun violence in an attempt to ban the gun that kills <500 out of 60,000 people a year.

      • @pokemaster787@ani.social
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        Owning a ghost gun is a crime, right?

        (Ignoring the fact that “ghost gun” is a meaningless and intentionally emotionally charged term)

        In New York, yes. In the vast majority of the US, no. It’s illegal to file the serial number off an existing firearm, but 100% legal in most states to manufacture your own unserialized firearms for personal use. Just cannot be sold/transferred.

        I’d note the article you linked says nothing about how many of those are actually 3D printed, it is infinitely easier to deface the serial number on an existing firearm than it is to 3D print one.

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      I can kind of see the logic.

      Like book piracy was never a huge thing because you’d need a hell of a set up to make a book from scratch. Music piracy however…

      I’m sure a decently skilled craftsman could make a decent firearm with a short trip to Home Depot, but the average Joe can’t make that happen too easily. With a 3D printer, you could have a gun with next to zero skill. Like a decently motivated person is going to find a gun anyway, but this maybe addresses the less motivated people/crimes of passion, etc.

      That being said, if these are the same people advocating for a waiting period, they obviously don’t know how long 3D printing a gun takes.

      Edit: for those downvoting, I’m not saying this is a good idea. I think the same result could be had by going after whoever is hosting the design files. Like at least keep them off thingiverse and make them slightly hard to find.

      • @Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
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        Book piracy was huge I don’t know what you’re talking about. You could get professionally printed books or you could always just photocopy them.

  • @BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    In other news: virtue signaling politicians are considering banning [scary items that their core voters know nothing about] in order to appear tough on crime, while avoiding doing the logical things experts recommend, because that would look bad in the eyes of the voters. Instead the only consequence is extending the stigma related to excons resulting in greater recidivism

    Googling 3d printed gun homicide returns a story from Rhode Island in 2020 (where the police can’t figure out if the gun was actually printed), an attempted murder in Reykjavík in 2022, and this story from 2022 that claims a total of 44 arrests were made related to 3d printed guns… world wide https://3dprint.com/291684/3d-printed-gun-arrests-tripled-in-less-than-two-years-3dprint-com-investigates/amp/

    In contrast there were 48117 firearms related deaths in the US during the same period.

    Maybe statistics and proportions should be a core part of math from an early age?

    • @Ibex0@lemmy.world
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      These guns are increasingly being found at crime scenes. You may not like NY’s solution, but the problem is growing.

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        I have two issues with your comment, and the tldr is this “I don’t think the problem warrants the resources needed” and “I don’t think the proposed bill will solve anything, problem or not”.

        These guns are increasingly being found at crime scenes.

        Probably, I don’t have a source for that, but I suspect that you’re not wrong. What I would like to know is the proportions of gun grimes involving 3d-printed guns vs gun crimes in total. I suspect what others have said in this post, about the percentage of gun related crimes that involve 3d-printed guns, to be within a rounding error, to also be correct.

        You may not like NY’s solution, […]

        It’s not that I don’t like the “solution”. It’s that I don’t accept the proposed ban as being a solution in the first place. I don’t want to come off as being snarky, I just wanted to make sure that my understanding of the word “solution” was correct. English not being my first language, I sometime miss the salient details. So, I took a moment and googled “definition solution”. According to “Oxford Languages” a solution is a means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation.

        Can you in all honesty claim, that you believe that limiting acquiring 3d-printing capabilities, in a single state, will reduce the use of 3d-printed parts in gun crimes?

        […] but the problem is growing.

        Again, the occurrence of 3d-printed guns or gun parts may be growing, but is it actually a problem big enough that it has to be dealt with? And with the resources necessary to enforce this proposal? Isn’t gun manufacturing already limited? As others have pointed out, why not limit access to other tools you could use to make guns?

        As OP pointed out, the intent may be noble, but the attempt is futile.

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          This is 'murica. we use Webster’s here.

          (sorry. couldn’t resist. you are correct. this isn’t a solution.)

      • @beefcat@lemmy.world
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        Some things cannot be effectively regulated in this manner. At all.

        There is simply no way to stop people from building their own 3D printers. There are too many open source designs, and they can be built with very simple parts that are readily available at the hardware store. Most hobbyist-level 3D printers basically come as a kit that they have to assemble themselves anyways. What happens next? Background checks to buy stepper motors? Background checks to buy a microcontroller?

        To me this is like trying to mandate government backdoors in encryption algorithms. There is literally nothing that would stop criminals from just using an open source encryption algorithm that doesn’t have a backdoor, so you end up just making it so all legitimate communications are less secure than they should be.

  • ɐɥO
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    What the fuck? You dont even need that for buying a fucking knife

    • HuddaBudda
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      I think some people would say the ability to print a gun is more deadly then a knife.

      But I kind of agree with you.

      If we start licensing people to own stuff that has the potential to do harm, then eventually you are going to run into a never ending list of household items and laws of natural physics:

      • Bleach
      • Vinegar
      • Salt
      • Sugar
      • Chlorine
      • Gas
      • Natural gas
      • Methane
      • Fertilizers
      • Electricity
      • Paper
      • Fire
      • Propane
      • Etc.
      • @cryptiod137@lemmy.world
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        99% of the what I’ve seen is more deadly to the user than to anyone on the receiving end. You’d really be better off with a pipe pistol or shotgun.

        But yeah, almost anything could be dangerous depending on how it’s applied.

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            Looked into the ones you mentioned, both require non-printed parts.

            Those are better than what I had seen, but aren’t even on the same scale as what someone can make with a mil or a lathe casually in a couple days

            • @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Of course they do, but the serialized part that is run through NICs is printable, the rest you can order online or get at home depot.

              Of course plastic, extruded or otherwise, is less strong than metal. That wasn’t the question. You can get a good few thousand rounds out of those before they crack and when they do, they crack along a layer and are not “more dangerous for the user” by any stretch of the imagination.

      • @PipedLinkBotB
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        Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

        Propane

        Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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      • Throwaway
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        We already do that, with guns. Precendent is set.

        • HuddaBudda
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          The understandable difference being that a gun has but one purpose: Kill people.

          Whereas everything else I have mentioned, including 3d printers are multi-purpose. Not intended to kill, but to serve multiple roles.

          Though, it is a good point that few devices could be cobbled together to make infinite guns so long as you had material. So I am not saying it isn’t a class of it’s own, just where does the logic end with that point?

          Is it only legal for a company to print guns? How does a license alone protect people? I don’t think that is something I could answer.

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            The thing is, banning guns is giving them an inch. NYC is already trying to grab 3d printers. Hell the ATF infamously made showlaces into unregistered machine guns, and a felony. https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2010/01/25/shoestring-machine-gun/

            And abroad, the UK went after knives.

            Never think they’ll stop at guns, because they won’t. Its slippery slope, but that slope is supported by historical evidence.

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              Isn’t it lucky where that slippery slope starts?

              It doesn’t start before guns, with things like high explosives, despite them being arguably “arms” and inarguably more useful in a tyrant-overthrowing war.

              And it doesn’t start after guns with knives and all the other things you’re sure they’re going to take, even though they could have taken them at any point in the past 20 years.

              Nope, the slippery slope starts exactly at the point it cuts into the profits of the gun lobby and the convenience of reactionaries, the moment they “grab guns” by introducing things like “licenses issued at the completion of a background check, safety and operation test and demonstrated ability to store safely”.

              The pro-gun community sure hit the jackpot there.

              Edit: Oh also, it was the modified rifle that was considered a “machine gun”, or the specific device made from a shoelace designed to convert it to full auto. This is so fuckwits can’t circumvent laws against fully automatic weapons, carrying and selling devices to illegally modify the weapon and then claiming “but its not on the gun so it doesn’t count!”.

              That entire linked blog post could be completely undermined by adding the word “part” to the initial letter.

              • @lemming741@lemmy.world
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                People dismiss the slippery slope as a logical fallacy, but I think that’s a mistake. If there are enough people fighting for whatever is at the bottom of the slope, I think it’s a valid argument. Was repealing Roe the end of the abortion rights debate?

                • @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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                  They dismiss it because it’s bullshit. Every stop on the slope is not inevitable.

                  In this particular case, why is the pro-gun community able to prevent changes to gun laws – despite those laws being deeply flawed and with only a minority of Americans supporting them – but somehow unable to prevent the floodgates after that?

                  The response the gun lobby wants to hear is “they gubbermint won’t do it because they’re scared we’ll shoot them!” but it’s pure bravado. Grossly negligent gun laws haven’t prevented the American government from doing things to its citizens that would make China blush and the pro-gun crowd didn’t even change their vote, let alone sacrifice their lives to prevent it.

                  Because everything is a bullshit slippery slope to them. “Oh you want to get rid of the second amendment? What’s next? The first amendment? The fourth?”

                  Nope. Just the second. It’s repealing an amendment, not dabbling with heroin. They’re not going to say “oh why not, maybe one more”.

                  Making the “responsible” part of “responsible gun owner” mandatory is not going to cause the collapse of civilisation.

  • @moody@lemmings.world
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    Zip guns have existed for a long, long time, but nobody’s going to legislate serious controls for buying building supplies. I could walk into any hardware store and come out with the materials to build a gun that fires real bullets.

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      Or just buy parts. What are they gonna do? Regulate stepper motors and heater cartridges, and generic microcontrollers?

      The cat is already out the bag.

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        That’s hilarious, assuming they only regulate prebuilts or full kits, all you’d need to do is something like add everything from a voron parts list to your cart to get around it. I wonder if sellers would also be able to offer partial kits to bypass it too (like offering a frame kit, x axis kit, extruder kit, etc and you just add all to cart)

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          The thing is, if 3D printed guns were a significant problem (and not primarily just an excuse to do nothing about failing gun laws), your situation would still be a massive improvement.

          Domestic terrorism is planned. At some point, every mass shooter has thought about how they could kill the most people, with the least effort and lowest chance of failure.

          And of course when they can walk into a gun store and buy cheap, semi-automatic weapons on a whim – even with a long history of red flags – that’s exactly what they do.

          Sure, maybe they could kill more people with a bomb. But they’d have to learn how to build one, then actually build it without being caught or blowing their hands off. On top of all of that, there’s no for-profit death cult for explosives so many of the most effective tools will bring men in suits to your door.

          The reality is if they had to buy, build and tune a Voron, then print a gun, then clean up the spaghetti and print another gun, then test the gun wouldn’t explode in their hands many of them simply would just try and stab people instead (or better yet, just do their suicide without taking innocent people with them).

          Means reductions has been proven to reduce suicide rates. Mass shootings are a form of suicide.

          This proposal is just an awkward attempt to address an issue early, because they can do so without the gun lobby sicking their lawyers and reactionaries on them, who are the ones pushing "Why bother with gun control when you can just 3D print full auto weapons?“ in the first place.

          • @EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml
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            Just with household items you could already come up with half a dozen options that are better than a gun, kitchen knife, or explosives.

            Security is fragile and we are kind of lucky that there aren’t too many intelligent manicas.

            • @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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              If any of those (conspicuously unnamed) household items were used to kill even half as many people as guns, there would absolutely be legislation to reduce the public safety risk.

              If that legislation failed as routinely as America’s gun laws do, it would be improved or replaced until it worked.

              • @EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml
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                Say goodbye to your pipe clog cleaner.

                Baking lye roll at home? That’s NaOH too.

                Old car battery or battery acid somewhere? H2SO4

                Chlorix? People have accidently killed themself by releasing Chlorine. That’s why there are warnings to not mix it with other cleaning agents.

                There is far more in a normal household and don’t even touched on the old stuff still laying around.

                You might say those are not lethal: Panic is a strong weapon and an attacker has the advantage that he chooses the where, when and how with as much planning/preperation as he likes.

                • @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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                  Yet with all these amazing weapons of mass destruction in their pantry, every single domestic terrorist just goes and buys a gun instead.

                  I’m sure the executives over at Chlorox are thrilled to hear that if radicalised psychopaths started killing and maiming thousands of people a year with their products, you’d fight to protect their profits.

                  But I’m not interested in solving every vague act of violence you’re able to inflict on the people in your imagination, I’m interesting in solving the violence that is happening right now, to real people, using a specific tool.

  • @deania@lemmy.world
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    By that logic, they should ban water pipes to stop people from making water pipe shotguns

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    And if I download a parts list, buy the components, and make the printer myself I guess I can just cruise new york “printing guns” for people without any hassle from the man.

    Printing ghost guns, so far, is just a boogyman politicians trot out when one of their corporate sponsors thinks one of their revenue streams might be threatened by DIYers.

    • @Anonymouse@lemmy.worldOP
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      I agree that this is a boogeyman law.

      I don’t understand the threat to revenue streams. From gun manufacturers? Would anybody who is allowed to purchase a gun bother with a 3D printed one other than for the novelty of it?

      My biggest gripe is that I feel that politicians usually don’t get involved in creating laws until way late. Think laws around the regulation of AI or cloning or genetically modifying humans. Is there a credible threat related to printed weaponry? I seriously doubt it.

      I saw something similar a few weeks ago on the national news to allow local police to shoot drones around regulated airspaces. In this case it’s a football game. The stadium security said that a drone flew in and distributed pamphlets but could have easily carried in a bomb. Again, this is a theoretical threat, but they’re more likely concerned about illegal filming of a sporting event.

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        3d printed guns are an excellent boogey man for manufacturers of not-gun things that 3d printers can make much better than guns.

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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        I don’t understand the threat to revenue streams. From gun manufacturers

        It doesn’t have to be from gun manufacturers. Any manufacturer can go to the politician they own and say “People are making open source versions of our highest profit margin widget, find a way to make it stop.” Then politician says, “Well, New Yorkers want more gun laws, we can abuse that…”

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        but could have easily carried in a bomb. Again, this is a theoretical threat

        Heard a story of a British officer giving an American secret service officer the rundown of Westminster Palace in anticipation of an American president visiting. They asked why there weren’t any screens at the viewing gallery (or maybe about why there were??? One of the two) and the British officer cited an incident where Tony Blair had a pink powder thrown on him during PMQs. The American asked how they dealt with him, to which he got the reply “Oh we just arrested him after” The American was shocked. “What!? We would have shot him, that could have been anthrax for all that you know”

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        I’m just waiting for him to get his first Texas property tax bill and realize he shat his pants, upped stakes, and ran away from one form of capitalist hellhole to another. Austin’s about to hit a brick frickin’ wall with all the tech and crypto bros realizing that maybe the brutal heat and humidity, high property taxes, high sales tax, shittier than you’d think nightlife, and lack of legal weed aren’t worth avoiding personal income tax for.

  • Owl
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    You can make a gun with anything

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      Well, not anything (if you actually think that’s possible, then I have a challenge for you: make a functioning gun out of cheese), but an average hardware store should have everything you need to produce something capable of firing a shot.

      • Cethin
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        Usually part of 3D printed guns aren’t 3d printed. I’d bet you could make a one-time-use gun out of cheese, but the firing pin and springs would probably have to be made of something else to use a traditional round.

        If you go with a gunpowder charge ignited with a flame, it’d be much easier. I’m sure there’s even a cheese that could sustain a flame to ignite it with too. You could even make a cheese bullet.

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        if you actually think that’s possible, then I have a challenge for you: make a functioning gun out of cheese

        Sounds like something Mythbusters would’ve taken on back in the day lol

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        Even if you freeze the cheese to make it more solid ?

      • Owl
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        Give me water, corn starch and a hydrolic press

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    This isn’t even low hanging fruit. This is fruit that’s been on the ground rotting for a few months that no one is going to pick up and eat anyway. Let’s throw ineffective solutions at the problem and when they fail go, “weeeeell, since you can buy a 3d printer and a gun online, let’s just do background checks for internet access”

    • @Anonymouse@lemmy.worldOP
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      That was sort of my point. I’m going to go out on a limb and say without any research that bears kill more people every year than 3D printers.

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        “We’ve done absolutely nothing, and nothing has changed, guess school shootings are the new norm, get used to it”

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          Guns are not the problem people are the problem. People do stupid shit and hurt others. Its all mental heath related but no politicians want to touch mental heath with a 10 foot pole every mass shooting has been from somebody mentally unwell. Guns are like cars, when used correctly they help the people using it and people around them protecting against criminals that illegally got guns and other illegal acts. Also if you don’t believe me on that look at south side of new York and Chicago Illinois. They both have large death counts do to gun violents. But the crazy part is guns have heavily restrictions especially in Illinois. But the criminals still get illegal firearms. And just like a car if used incorrectly can kill and hurt people.

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            Its all mental heath related but no politicians want to touch mental heath with a 10 foot pole

            That’s because the underlying causes of the poor mental health are things like inequality, consumerism, and car dependency (not just the burdensome cost, frustration of wasting time in traffic, and poor health from lack of exercise, but also the direct harm to mental health from replacing third places with non-places). Since pretty much all the politicians (of either party) are full steam ahead on the crony-capitalism train, of course they have no interest in solving any of those.

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        69 months ago

        There are more deadlier things that are way less expensive I can buy at the local tracker supply with not even a second thought from the cashier. Let’s just limit the public from scary things like “3D printers”.