Comment by xeromal

2 days ago

Such a garbage bill. You could do more damage with an easier to make home made potato cannon or pipe bomb

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int_19h  2 days ago

I think you might not be up-to-date on the current state of 3D-printed firearms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGC-9

(The law is still silly, but for other reasons.)

  • magic_smoke_ee  2 days ago

    https://youtu.be/d9JJrjvWvT0

    An iffy 3d-printed gun using crappy materials can technically work for a few hundred rounds doesn't mean much in a country full of lots of legal guns of all sorts. And while I don't want TdA mass-producing RPGs, but that's not a problem solvable by regulating milling machines.

    The problem is some people want total, invasive, inconsistent control over what other people can do, make, and be for ideological reasons rather than rational ones.

  • adriancr  2 days ago

    > The barrel can be rifled polygonally through electrochemical machining.

    It's not fully 3d printed. 3d printed parts are fragile.

    So what exactly are they banning?

    Why not ban the electrochemical machining instead?

    • imtringued  2 days ago

      It's a metal tube that has some plastic around it to make it comfortable to hold. They are basically banning the production of "comfort features", not weapons themselves.

EA-3167  16 hours ago

I think it's telling that recently we saw an ex Green Beret make an IED, killing only himself. The day before however we saw someone drive a car into a crowd, killing what... a dozen people? Meanwhile their firefight with the police killed no one, and their IED's failed.

I'm pretty sure the average SUV can do more damage than the average 3D printed firearm.