San Diego County jumped into California’s sprawling ghost gun fight this week, suing a 3-D printing filament manufacturer it says hocks material for homespun firearms in violation of state law.

Working with the Giffords Law Center, the county counsel sued manufacturer Polymaker, alleging the company made a “strategic business choice” to market and sell 3-D printer filament to Californians for the express purpose of building illegal weapons. The polymer filament is sold in spools that feed into 3-D printers, allowing the devices to form designs created by their owners.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    hold on let me go sue home depot for selling black iron pipe and nails because someone made a pipe bomb. Nowhere has poly-maker ever advertised or suggested their speciality filaments could make firearms.

    Someone’s looking for a payout settlement, fuck California

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      you could literally make a shotgun with that too. Saw a YouTube video. Two pipes, one fit in the other, small one was the right size to hold a shell, and a nail at the end of the closed pipe triggered it if you used your hands to hit it.

      Super effective and easy one shot shotgun. there’s no real way to regulate guns IMO. They’re not complicated devices.

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        4 days ago

        Guns are just a slight evolution of the sling, just us throwing rocks further and faster.

        Same as it ever was.