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
Nobody tell California about a nail combined with certain diameters of pipe, because guess what, those can become guns too.
Pleas do tell us the next time a birthday gets drive by’d by pipes and nails, otherwise, shut the fuck up dumbass.
Pipe bombs are not exactly uncommon. Most of those are exactly that. Pipe and nails, packed with homemade explosives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No, you don’t. You can do literally anything productive with your life other than obsessing about killing tools.
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.
Lmfao go touch grass. Youre alive so far because reality is not the internet, not because you own a gun and are statistically endangering yourself and your family with it.
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.
Yeah, and that’s why you don’t have a meaningful social life. Because you obsess over building tools to kill people rather then spending your time learning how to build a better world.
Grow the fuck up.
lol ok…
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.
Shovel AK is a thing too. There are stencils out there for it.
Gah how can I forget about the shovel AK???