California passes bill declaring death-by-algorithm to 3D-printed ghost guns
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Last-hour amendments aim to allay privacy concerns, but broad scepticism about feasibility remains

So much for the constitution

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    This is stupid easy to bypass plus you still need metal parts to make it work

    Guns are actually really easy to make and can be assembled from parts found at a local hardware store. If you want something fancier you could even mill a gun out of metal

    • Hawanja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 day ago

      Yeah but a right wing incel maniac trying to get a gun to go blow away a high school isn’t going to know how to mill his own gun. He might download one and use his father’s 3D printer to make one.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        You can’t use a 3D printer to make a working gun and it isn’t possible to distinguish a gun from anything else.

        This is security theater that hurts the general public and small businesses while giving yet more power to the wealthy

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            Because mass surveillance is bad? I don’t want my printer to send everything I print to private companies

            Even if you are somehow ok with the surveillance, there are still issues with copywrite. I’m pretty sure it would be pretty easy for some large company to seal ideas or to prevent you from making replacement parts for stuff that you bought and paid for

            • Hawanja@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 day ago

              Because mass surveillance is bad? I don’t want my printer to send everything I print to private companies

              I am ok with someone not being able to print out a gun and then blow people away with it.
              And if mass surveillance bothers you, then you should get rid of your cell phone.
              Also, private companies already have every bit of information about you. How do you think Google and Facebook and Twitter make their money?

              Even if you are somehow ok with the surveillance, there are still issues with copywrite. I’m pretty sure it would be pretty easy for some large company to seal ideas or to prevent you from making replacement parts for stuff that you bought and paid for

              Yeah but not everything I leagally buy and pay for can be used to murder people. For example, if I print out a battery cover for my remote control I then cannot go to a hotel room in Las Vegas and massacre 50 people at a country music festival with it.