“might stop anyone from 3D printing guns”

I can guarantee you that it won’t even do that.

The overhang on that snake’s head and the tail’s end not even touching the build plate is borderline impossible, also yellow and black yet only showing a printer that has one yellow roll and we think that the machine can’t swap filaments either. So unrealistic :P

Video series worth a watch from 3D Printing Nurd.

These videos talk about the additive printing bill and how it essentially looking to make any “uncertified” 3d printer or even CNC machines illegal.

Strictest 3D Printing Regulation YET! California AB2047: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ax9zW0w_gY

3D Printing in California Can Be Saved! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGvvEuIPJxA

The FINAL Hearing in California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6fpPStIAsY

I’m no gun person, but you could easily make a gun on a lathe or a mill drill, too. Get a CNC one and you don’t even need to know how to use them.

Are we going to start fitting them with “you might be making a gun” detectors, too? Of course not.

Edit: Turns out they are… I choose to blame my ignorance on the paywall.

This goes way, way beyond ‘guns.’ It is an assault on property rights and freedom of expression as concepts generally. It would fully outlaw Free Software firmware (which is what the entire 3D printer hobby, having started with the RepRap project, is based on!). It would cut the Maker movement as a whole off at the knees.

It’s absolute tyranny in ways entirely unrelated to guns themselves.

Wow, they are doing so much to stop guns from getting into the wrong hands. I’m really glad the everyday issue of 3d printed guns will finally be solved.

Wait until they find out that you can make a shotgun with some galvanized pipe and a nail.

Wtf is the point in this in the US when you can just go and pick up a gun from the road or a bush or someone’s desk or whatever?

This is just dumb people being bought by gun lobby groups…on top of all of this bullshit, guns are %100 legal to make. It’s not illegal to make a firearm for personal use, even if you could 3d print one completely.