Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns?
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New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.
  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    22 days ago

    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.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      22 days ago

      Are we going to start fitting [CNC lathes and mills] with “you might be making a gun” detectors, too? Of course not.

      I’ve got some bad news for you about just how fucked-up these proposed laws actually are.

    • PattyMcB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      22 days ago

      I’m pretty sure the law says any machine that takes sets of automated instructions, which includes CNC cutters and lathes