• terranoid@lemmy.cafe
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    Guns are extremely simple devices. It’s not something you can solve with 3d printing legislation… It’s just people giving lip service to gun control IMO.

    If you know how to 3d print a gun, you can easily find out how to make a zip gun with a bit of pipe, the kind you’d probably need to 3d print a “ghost gun” regardless.

    Like ffs I saw a YouTube video or a dude getting two pieces of pipe, closing one end and putting a nail in it, then making a one shot shotgun out of cheap fucking material. You just need closed space and to hit the end of the fucking bullet. Guns are not magic. They’re simple as fuck, and hard to regulate partially because of how simple they are.

    These laws are probably more for surveillance than preventing ghost guns.

    https://armamentresearch.com/luty-sub-machine-guns-past-present-future/

    Famous examples that don’t use 3d printing, the Luty guns he made as a crypto anarchist psycho trying to disseminate open source plans lol. The knowledge is very easily accessible.

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      These laws are probably more for surveillance than preventing ghost guns.

      They are, 100%. Watch Louis Rossman 's video on the New York law (if you can stomach his vlogs for that long) - it’s had a shitload of money dumped into lobbying for it by none other than overly controlling industrialist Michael Bloomberg himself. They are trying to crush user ownership of manufacturing right off the bat.

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      It’s not just gun control.

      It’s control of information and surveillance of every bit of data and every part printed for any reason.

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        It’s not even just surveillance! It is destruction of property rights generally, including the right to repair and the ability for individuals to own their means of production.