When legislators give companies an excuse to write untouchable code, it’s a disaster for everyone. This time, 3D printers are being targeted. Even if you’ve never used one, you’ve benefited from the open commons these devices have created. We need to roundly reject these onerous restraints on creation.
  • Wizard3964@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    19 days ago

    How should the printed gun issue be handled?

    And also, weren’t second amendment crazies already teaching each other how to work a forge for specific gun parts.

    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Here we see that with just a barrel, firing pin, feed, ejector, ammunition, and a 3d printer we can manufacture a lethal weapon.

      Protip, if you have these parts and a whittling knife you also have a gun after a judicious camping trip.

      “Oh no but designs exist for fully 3d printed guns that are really really shitty and worse than what you can make with a lathe and a mill”. Can you 3d print a cartridge? That’s the killy bit.

      • pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        18 days ago

        I’m not sure how viable it would be to track bullet sales + require some kind of identifying code on bullets, but I imagine that even if it is spectacularly difficult, it would still be more effective and less restrictive than this 3d print censorship bullshit.