Comment by xeromal
10 months ago
Such a garbage bill. You could do more damage with an easier to make home made potato cannon or pipe bomb
10 months ago
Such a garbage bill. You could do more damage with an easier to make home made potato cannon or pipe bomb
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.)
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.
> 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?
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.
Totally unrelated, what would be a good 3d printer for building rugged models, and what would be a good website to find designs of things to print?
https://youtu.be/RJLsUaEsogA?si=WfR-8Q-70K9jxSB4
This is actually a completely legal (and awesome) hobby.
A good site to find and share designs is https://ctrlpew.com
>【DIY】3D-Printed Visual-Guidance Surface-to-Air Rocket (Making)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvcDwSmmxWs
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.