Technically it’s for any printer capable of printing a firearm or the components of a firearm, which is…. every printer. What a bafflingly stupid proposal. If you’re in NY, please call your reps and tell them to oppose this bill.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    1415 hours ago

    Don’t worry, my state considers throwing stars to be “assault weapons” now and their sale and possession is banned. There’s still stupidity abound if you care to look hard enough.

        • Riskable
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          314 hours ago

          You jest but automated blowguns with face recognition could be deadly and nearly impossible to spot!

          • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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            114 hours ago

            Way ahead of you. Ever load a thumbtack into a piece of 5/16" brake line and give it a puff with your air compressor?

            Don’t ask me how but the fuckers remain straight in flight. They’re cylindrical enough that you could surely make such an apparatus magazine fed.

            • @[email protected]
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              214 hours ago

              If you have the compressor, wouldn’t it be easier to just use a nail gun with the sensor on the tip disabled?

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                  113 hours ago

                  You could probably easily add some fletching to them and maybe a little bit of a barrel to the nail gun to get a little extra muzzle velocity.

                  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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                    313 hours ago

                    Not without breaking the nails off of their strip, at which point you’re redesigning the feed mechanism, and at that rate you may as well start from scratch.

                    Nailguns don’t work in the manner like I predict you’re thinking of – you can’t add a barrel to one since the nail itself is not fired via the compressed air as a projectile. The air drives a piston which strikes the nail exactly like a hammer. The energy is imparted in the nail in that impact and that’s all you get. Adding additional barrel length will not increase the velocity in any way. It may just at the outside increase the flight stability of the projectile very slightly, but nailgun nails aren’t very well balanced, they’re surprisingly inconsistent, and they’re usually not very straight to begin with either.

                    I used to manage a hardware store. Trust me, myself and my crew have/had a lot of experience with trying to weaponize various tools, parts, and equipment. Boredom on a slow Sunday afternoon will do that for you…