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.

  • @badbytes
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    250 minutes ago

    Lol, I built a 3d printer with a 3d printer.

  • @Ensign_Crab
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    253 minutes ago

    Printcrime was not an instruction manual.

  • @UnderpantsWeevil
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    72 hours ago

    Luigi had no background to check.

    This is pure flail.

  • @SloppyPuppy
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    143 hours ago

    What about a bunch of stepper motor and some plastic. Do I need a background check for that?

    • @fluxx
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      52 hours ago

      Well, everyone knows only main boards have a serial number, so you need a permit for that. But the rest is a spare part, you can get it freely.

      /s

    • Phoenixz
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      31 hour ago

      Oh don’t worry, there will be a third. And a fourth. And a… Well, more and more until it passes

      It only has to pass once

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        12 hours ago

        We’ll see if that sticks, or if annoying rich car people get the reforms repealed. Hochul certainly seems pliable.

  • @[email protected]
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    228 hours ago

    This is braindead, are they gonna require background checks for the hardware store next?

    • @[email protected]
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      58 hours ago

      Don’t forget sporting goods and kitchen supplies. Heck, you can get a bunch of decent knives in IKEA, better put furniture outlets on a watchlist.

    • @Valmond
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      28 hours ago

      Or worse, buying guns everywhere?

  • @demizerone
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    Any engineer worth their salt can do this without a 3d printer. Idiots.

    • @IphtashuFitz
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      86 hours ago

      Next up, you’re going to have to register your drill press, lathe, etc.

  • @CeeBee_Eh
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    Are they going to require background checks for purchasing metal working equipment? Or maybe just make it illegal to bring any metal to melting point without a license.

    Because you can make guns with metal.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      11 hour ago

      It just buy a gun third party or at a gun show in a state without background check requirements.

      This isn’t rocket science.

      • @CeeBee_Eh
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        17 minutes ago

        Ah yes, but then they’ll just make it illegal to buy and own 2nd hand stuff.

    • @Valmond
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      48 hours ago

      I built my own, so I guess stepper motors and heating elements should also be under the law.

  • @spitfire
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    2319 hours ago

    Some actual gun control laws would be better, not to mention universal health care. What’s next on the list? Kitchen knives? Pans, pots? ;)

    • @JayleneSlide
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      45 hours ago

      I grew up in NY. The gun control laws were draconian 45 years ago. I can’t imagine they have become more lax since I departed the state 30 years ago.

      • @spitfire
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        11 hour ago

        Doesn’t really matter if you can buy a gun in another state.

  • @spitfire
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    1719 hours ago

    How much harder would it be than getting an actual gun?

      • @[email protected]
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        67 hours ago

        Just FYI, you can’t buy a firearm at a dealer outside of your home state without having it shipped to an FFL holder in your home state. E.g., I can’t drive to Family Firearms in Alabama from Georgia–where i live–to buy a gun. I have to order from them, and then have it shipped to an FFL near me, and then fill out the paperwork in my own state. In states that allow private, p2p sales (which is most of them), you could buy a firearm with cash from an individual, and they’d never do a background check or fill out a 4473.

      • @spitfire
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        318 hours ago

        Makes total sense

    • @[email protected]
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      317 hours ago

      my granny got one in a Walmart parking lot so it can’t be that hard.
      Still don’t know how that even happens.

      • @spitfire
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        39 hours ago

        Well, maybe that’s your (US&A) problem, not 3d printers ;)