NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer::Requires a criminal history background check for the purchase of a three-dimensional printer capable of creating firearms; prohibits sale to a person who would be disqualified on the basis of criminal history from being granted a license to possess a firearm.

  • db2@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    180
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    A tube capable of firing a projectile isn’t hard to make though. Maybe they should require a criminal history background check to go to the hardware store too.

      • Zron@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        But the point is that literally anyone could be.

        A simple gun is just a tube with one end closed off. You can make a blackpowder musket for about 30 bucks at a hardware store. They even sell the lighters to set off the charge.

        3d printers also make shitty guns, for the most part. Unless you’re paying hundreds of dollars for the rest of the firearm, all your making is the part that holds everything together. If you’re not using real firearm parts, a solid plastic gun is largely useless.

        Are they going to require background checks to operate a CNC machine too? Cause that’s probably gonna cripple the manufacturing industry.

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      83
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Classic pro-gun community, rushing to brigade a gun-related post with pre-prepared talking points.

      “Why bother fixing gun laws that clearly fail to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people when you can just 3D print a gun?”

      *someone makes a move to stop dangerous people 3D printing guns*

      “Why bother preventing dangerous people 3D printing guns when you can just buy a bit of pipe at the hardware store?”

      Criminals and domestic terrorists overwhelmingly just go to a store and buy a gun. The pro-gun community is fine with this.

      For the minority that can’t, straw purchases, gun show loopholes and poorly secured firearms give them much better access to safer, more reliable guns than 3D printing does. The pro-gun community is fine with this too.

      A tiny fraction of crimes involve 3D printed gun parts and I’m not aware of any domestic terrorism to use any. Nevertheless, somebody could in theory print parts for a fully automatic weapon that would potentially be reliable enough for a mass shooting.

      So how many crimes are being comitted with a piece of old pipe?

      I know self-absorbed, gun-owning, 300lbs men pretending they’d be useful in a militia want to angrily hammer out a comment along the lines of “WHAT ABOUT THAT ASSASSINATION IN JAPAN YOU CUCK”.

      But the one example you can cite without googling, from every single country with gun control was clearly dogshit barely worked.

      It would be a massive improvement if American criminals were forced to use home made firearms that significantly increased the price, difficulty to obtain and the danger to themselves using it.

      But the pro-gun community objects by walking down a list of bullshit excuses because they can’t just say “I’d rather people were shot than I was inconvienced”.

      • papalonian@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        49
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        It’s crazy how the first thing you did was complain about people with premade talking points rushing to brigade a post, yet you’re in here posting walls of text under everyone who is pointing out the logical inconsistencies of banning unregulated 3d printers but not other hardware related purchases.

        Even stranger is, I can’t figure out what you’re upset about. You yourself say that only a tiny fraction of gun violence comes from 3d printed weapons, you say you’re against the bill, so why are you getting hostile and making wild, baseless as hominem attacks against people who think it’s a pointless bill?

        • NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          10
          ·
          1 year ago

          Even stranger is, I can’t figure out what you’re upset about.

          It seems like they latched onto the idea that everyone who comments along the lines of “This is a stupid idea.”, secretly intends to say “This is a stupid idea, which is why there shouldn’t be any gun regulation at all.” instead. Needless to say, that’s an insane take and only results in them constructing these giant straw man arguments against people who are most likely on the same side as them.

          • papalonian@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            1 year ago

            They sound straight up unhinged lol, someone says they don’t think it’s a good idea and they fly off the handle calling people 300lb gun nuts living in their mom’s basement. It makes me sad because I suspect they probably share a lot of similar views as I do but when they present themselves like this it just makes anyone that’s unsure of their own political stance think everyone is as batshit as this dude.

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          31
          ·
          1 year ago

          It’s crazy how the first thing you did was complain about people with premade talking points rushing to brigade a post, yet you’re in here posting walls of text under everyone who is pointing out the logical inconsistencies of banning unregulated 3d printers but not other hardware related purchases.

          I have absolutely no idea what point you’re trying to make here since the things before and after your “yet” have nothing to do with each other.

          Are you trying to claim I’m brigading with a single account or somehow manipulating votes?

          Even stranger is, I can’t figure out what you’re upset about.

          Well that’s on you.

          making wild, baseless as hominem attacks

          Oh damn I was hoping you didn’t know that you can instantly win any debate by just (almost) saying the names of logical fallacies.

          “Ad Hominem” means that someone isn’t inherently wrong just because they’re dogshit. They can both still be wrong and dogshit.

          Want to point out exactly where I claimed someone must be wrong because they were a bad person?

          • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            17
            ·
            1 year ago

            Are you trying to claim I’m brigading with a single account or somehow manipulating votes?

            I don’t think that’s what anyone was thinking…. Until you said this. Are you brigading with a single account or somehow manipulating votes?

            • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              7
              ·
              1 year ago

              Well, inherently not on the brigading but if you suspect there is voting manipulation going on, by all means dig into it.

              My votes are public, the same as any other users. Maybe you could create a site that listed the voting history for each comment? I’m sure the results would be fascinating in every gun related thread.

          • papalonian@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            12
            ·
            1 year ago

            Yeaaah… I don’t think you’re worth anyone’s time seriously responding to. Lol. Hope you have a good day man.

      • db2@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        17
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I’m not pro-gun, stupid. I’m pro-thinking which you’re clearly not. Nice troll username btw.

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          14
          ·
          1 year ago

          You rushed right in with their talking points, so I assumed your goal was to spread them. I don’t want to break your little heart but I respond to the things people say on social media without forming an intimate relationship with them first.

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          arrow-down
          16
          ·
          1 year ago

          I’m against it because I know the pro-gun claim of “fixing deeply flawed gun laws is pointless because people will just 3D print guns” is a lie.

          Should it one day come true, I’d reconsider my position.

          But it hasn’t come true anywhere else in the world, nor have any other pro-gun promises come true in the last 20 years.

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    123
    ·
    1 year ago

    That’s incredibly stupid. Good Lord.

    What’s next? CNC machines? Silicone/resin casting supplies? Steel pipes?

  • Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    95
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Is this what the democrats think is important legislation right now?

    You can make a firearm in a shitty garage shop way cheaper than the both monetary investment and time investment that comes with using a 3D printer.

    People in fuckinh prisons make improvised firearms

    This is a waste of time.

    • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      32
      arrow-down
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s not about making firearms. It’s about being able to make literally anything else, the ability to do so being something that would liberate individuals, to some extent, from the capitalist system. That’s what they really don’t want.

        • docmark@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          18
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          1 year ago

          Yes and voter literacy tests were about making sure people were smart enough to vote. /s

          • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            7
            ·
            1 year ago

            You’re right. This is definitely about protecting the US service economy from people manufacturing their own plastic trinkets. /s Just to be clear: I think this is a stupid bill, but it absolutely tracks with concern/hysteria around ‘ghost guns’. No need to consult the tea leaves to figure this one out.

        • bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          If they didn’t want people having firearms, by golly there’s some lower hanging fruit.

      • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        This is correct. Although I’m not sure what the actual viability of using a 3d printer for cutting the costs of living in society is. From my understanding you can only kind of recycle proper 3d printer grade PLA plastic and you definitely can’t make 3d printer plastic out of trash. Machine tools on the other hand can accomplish many of the same things and a greater percentage of the stuff that goes with them can be made out of trash or scrap.

        • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Meh. 3D printer plastic goes for like $24 a pound on Amazon whereas almost everything you buy costs hundreds and is disposable largely because their cheap, shitty plastic frames aren’t repairable. Being able to 3D print your own frames for electronics or tools or machines would save you so much money in the long run.

          But the powers that be don’t want that. That’s the real reason why they’ve had it out for 3D printers. Printing guns is just an excuse.

        • aidan@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          You can recycle PET bottles, you probably don’t use enough PLA packing to be effectively able to recycle it even if it weren’t degraded.

        • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          True.

          But a milling machine (not even a CNC) costs and weighs more than a car.

      • superguy@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        1 year ago

        Eh. With how tribalist American politics has become, it’s usually only a matter of throwing shit to the wall to see what sticks.

        This may not stick, but if it does you can bet your sweet ass it will be a primary issue for democrats.

  • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    85
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Are these lawmakers aware of the fact you can 3d print a 3d printer? Or at least, about 80% of its parts, and the remaining parts are indistinguishable from the random stuff youd buy at the hardware store? (Aluminum extrusion mostly, some gears, etc)

    The only part they could theoretically hope to control worth a damn would be the printing nozzles, which are so incredibly cheap to buy bulk and nearly impossible to specialize.

    Also you could take this to court and point out that you would need to also include CNC machines, Laser Cutters, lathes, and any of the other variations of tools that can be used to manufacture a DIY gun.

    This isnt a problem specific to 3d printers, a CNC mill that can cut aluminum is also just as capable of producing the jigs needed to manufacture gun parts.

      • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        18
        arrow-down
        11
        ·
        1 year ago

        It would, but it would also require more expense and skill and the “gun control is pointless because people will just make their own guns” lie works best when you can imply there is minimal cost, experience, effort and risk.

        • cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          since a cnc is computer controlled it should be about as hard to learn to use a 3d printer

          making the model and instructions for the cnc may be more complicated, but you can share those

          • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            1 year ago

            Your gut feelings are not facts. CNC machining – especially of hard metals and complex shapes – is significantly more complicated and expensive than desktop 3D printers.

            You can’t just buy a $200 CNC frame, stick a palm router in it and come back an hour later to an AR-15.

            • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              6
              ·
              1 year ago

              Not that you’re saying otherwise, but it’s not anywhere that simple to make a gun on a 3d printer either. It’s at least not considerably easier than making one clandestinely using any of the myriad options that have existed without 3d printing.

            • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              There are companies that sell small CNC machines marketed for the purpose of producing firearms. At that point all you need is the gcode and the stock.

              • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                2
                ·
                1 year ago

                Sounds like you shouldn’t have any problem answering these questions then:

                1. What does the machine itself cost?
                2. What grades of metal is the spindle able to cut and what is suitable for a safe and reliable firearm?
                3. What tool heads are needed to manufacture each part of a gun?
                4. For each of those tools, cutting that material, what is a good RPM and feed rate?
                5. Do any parts require precise realignment as part of a tool change or when changing the orientation of a part?
                6. How much stock is required for a semi-automatic rifle and what does it cost?
                7. What have you personally manufactured and on what machines? Regular old mills and lathes are fine.

                Alternatively, you could go on record saying that absolutely none of those things matter for gun manufacturing.

      • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        So the big thing people, including lawmakers, whiff on this is you dont actually 3d print guns. You can 3d print superficial parts like the grip and whatnot, but the actual firing part of the gun is largely not 3d printable.

        You can print it, and people have tried, but it usually only lasts 1-2 rounds before it breaks.

        However, what you can print that is a huge deal, is the very precise jigs necessary to very easily manufacture the firing mechanisms of the gun, to quite a degree of precision. Then you use a drill or whatever to actually make those metal parts.

        Basically, you can easily 3d print a gun maker, and then 3d print all the “extra” parts like grip and whatnot that attach to what you have created, in order to improve it.

        Thats the actually serious part, because normally these sorts of jigs need to be extremely precise and are quite difficult to get ahold of. You need a fairly high end CNC machine to make one, or you have to buy it.

        But 3d printers, even fairly affordable ones, when fine tuned by hand, do have the necessary precision to print such jigs, which makes them much more accessible for quite cheap… And once you print the jig, it becomes pretty easy to mass produce DIY guns.

        • Thetimefarm@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          People have been making paper templates for a long time, I can’t see how plastic would have any real advantage. A plastic guide isn’t going to constrain a metal cutting tool, at best it just shows you where you need to drill the same as a paper template. If you wander outside the lines you’ll just mess up both the part and the jig.

          If I were to set up a clandestine gun manufacurer I would try and design a product that could be made using mostly aluminum extrutions and paper jigs. That way it’s easy to compartmentalize each step, harder for one guy to flip on you, and fast/cheap. Plus if you get raided you don’t have a bunch of incriminating files cached on your CNC machine from previous runs.

          • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            A plastic guide isn’t going to constrain a metal cutting tool,

            It’s a lot more complicated than that. We are talking a lot more than just “guides” when it comes to these types of jigs. Adapters and entire jigs that require a bunch of common parts you can by at the hardware store + the plastic parts to assemble.

            Think more like creating bespoke fairly precise CNC stuff to adapt a drill or router. It’s a lot more advanced than just paper guides, because 3d printers are for all intents and purposes CNC machines themselves.

        • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          And once you print the jig, it becomes pretty easy to mass produce DIY guns.

          Sure, but you still need to buy the actual firing mechanism parts of real guns in order to manufacture “3d printed guns”.

          And you can also make those same jigs and fixtures out of wood or any other raw material.

          • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            but you still need to buy the actual firing mechanism parts of real guns in order to manufacture

            Nah thats the parts the jigs make, as well as a couple other key pieces that require higher than usual precision. At least, if you want to actually make a gun that can reasonably hit a target.

            And you can also make those same jigs and fixtures out of wood or any other raw material.

            Not by hand with the precision needed, not for the parts in question. Unless you want to risk a misfire and losing a finger.

  • Sparking@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    71
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    Silly. Why can’t we just regulated the sale of ammunition and gunpowder?

    • Piecemakers@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      NY is the shining example of the simple creation of a law being enough to entirely extinguish any criminal activity related to it in the entire jurisdiction. This one is so incredibly powerful, in fact, that the very second it goes into effect, the whole state of NY will be unable to cross state lines to acquire said devil boxes, nor even use a VPN to make such a purchase online. Also, sharks are smooth.

      • cheesemoo@lemmy.conk.me
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 year ago

        That’s actually an excellent point about sharks that many people don’t realize. I’m petting one right now and it feels like the softest silk.

      • Sparking@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        I’m all for preventative laws if they are good policy. This isn’t good policy.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Why can’t we just regulated the sale of ammunition and gunpowder?

      Or at least the gun parts needed to make a “3d printed” gun actually function as a firearm.

      • nomecks@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        You can make a completely 3D printed gun that will survive at least one shot. I’m sure if you’re using resin or carbon fiber reinforced plastic so you could probably get more than one shot off.

        • Piecemakers@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          1 year ago

          Resin is generally more brittle than filament, FYI, and the real question with most 3D-printed firearms is whether the shooter survives “at least one shot”.

          • FireTower@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            1 year ago

            Most 3d printed guns are either redesigns of existing guns replacing non pressure bearing parts with printed parts (look up FMDA17 a 3D printed Glock 17 equivalent) or mostly printed with pressure bearing parts being barstock or pipes (see FGC-9).

            • Piecemakers@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              I’m not really sure where you’re getting “Most 3D-printed guns”, but here’s one of the top communities of such. You’ll see quite clearly that MSLA is not the preferred method for production, parts or otherwise.

              • FireTower@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                1 year ago

                I wasn’t claiming MSLA was preferred I was commenting in reference to the latter half of the comment. Most 3DP firearms last much more than a single round because they incorporate metal components where important.

                I’m familiar with Defcad, but would recommend The Gatalog over it.

                • Piecemakers@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  Oh, hey, thanks! I’m new to the concept and my interest is design adjacent: modded Nerf/airsoft arms, so I’m largely unaware of the intricacies of actual firearms printing — though, I’ll give Gatalog a look, fo sho 🤙🏼

        • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          That may usually survive that one shot.

          Or it may fail and cause damage to the person foolish enough to be weilding it.

  • vector_zero@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    52
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    You can easily create a firearm with a short length of steel pipe and a nail. I don’t know how this will do anything. Plus people can just drive to another state.

    • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      29
      ·
      1 year ago

      It will be effective in 3d printers gaining attention for having the ability to print firearms

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      35
      ·
      1 year ago

      Well then you’ll know what to do when your guns are taken away won’t you?

      When you’ve finished building it (and the home made ammo to go in it), don’t forget to post a picture of your new baby to all the pro-gun communities.

      I’m sure they’ll all be very jealous of your dogshit “pipe and nail” gun.

  • The Pantser@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    52
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    Can anyone name one crime that has been committed with a 3d printed gun from the last 3 years that hasn’t been committed 100x more often in the last week with a stolen or illegally obtained gun.

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      30
      arrow-down
      20
      ·
      1 year ago

      Or by legal gun owners, who are responsible for a massive percentage of gun violence, (for example, 80% of all mass shootings).

      You know, the same legal gun owners who let their guns get stolen or staunchly oppose closing gun show loopholes or making straw-purchasing more difficult.

      • Fondots@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        15
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        I agree with all of your points but have a small nitpick that I really wish people would stop calling it the gun show loophole

        The loophole is that private sales (depending on state laws) don’t require a background check (which, to be clear, I disagree with)

        But all of those guys with tables set up at the gun show are FFL dealers, buying from them is just like buying from any regular gun shop with all of the normal background checks and other requirements you’d expect in your state.

        Now any of the random folks wandering around the show, in theory, could sell you a gun without any background check, but that’s not unique to them being at a gun show, they could do the same from their garage, a Walmart parking lot, a random street corner, a TGI Fridays, etc.

        I’m also pretty sure that most, if not all gun shows specifically prohibit those private sales from happening at their events.

        Again, I’d like to see the loophole closed, but calling it a gun show loophole just leaves the door open for gun nuts to say “lol, there is no gun show loophole, see you don’t even know what you’re talking about” because there’s really nothing unique about gun shows as it pertains to the law.

        Instead i’d say we should refer to it as the private sale loophole or the Brady bill loophole.

        • shalafi@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          1 year ago

          The loophole thing really turned into a talking point, didn’t it? Whenever someone uses that word, I automatically assume they’ve never been to a gun show.

          • Fondots@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            I tend to make the same assumption, not that I think it’s important for people saying these things and crafting these laws to have ever been to a gun show, but they should at least understand what it is they want to regulate.

            I am by no means anti gun, I like guns, enjoy shooting, I don’t currently own any because I have other priorities for my money, but if I suddenly found myself with a lot more disposable income I’d probably own a couple. That said, I do support a lot of gun control measures that would make the average Republican voter call me a crazy gun grabbing communist.

            Mostly though, I hate seeing people pushing for laws and regulations when they clearly don’t understand what it is they’re trying to regulate. You see a lot of liberals get up in arms (and rightfully so) about shitty Internet laws crafted by geriatric politicians who can barely manage to check their own emails, but then go and make the same kind of mistakes with gun laws

            To name one particularly egregious example, McCarthy describing a barrel shroud as “a shoulder thing that goes up” had similar energy no Stevens describing the internet as “a series of tubes” except the tubes analogy could actually kind of work for some internet issues (though not the specific one he was complaining about) whereas I can’t think of any way to twist the shoulder thing comment to make it apply to a barrel shroud.

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          arrow-down
          14
          ·
          1 year ago

          That’s all fair, but it remains the most widely accepted term for the issue, complete with its own Wikipedia page.

          leaves the door open for gun nuts to say “lol, there is no gun show loophole, see you don’t even know what you’re talking about”

          It doesn’t matter what it’s called, they’ll continue to oppose addressing it because their strategy is to only take, never give.

          • frezik@midwest.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            Call it a “private sales loophole”. It’s more accurate, and covers what you would actually want covered.

            A big issue with gun control, outside of the NRA being a huge grift, is that gun control advocates have no idea how guns work and what current laws actually do. They often confuse things that are truly dangerous with purely cosmetic features.

            • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              Well even the most profoundly stupid person can see the most important thing American gun laws do; fail on a daily basis.

              • frezik@midwest.social
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                1 year ago

                Great! Then you can run off and ban collapsible stocks again. That will surely help.

                • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  2
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  Hey if you want us to ban things that actually help, I’m all for it. Should we start with semi-automatic weapons or handguns?

          • Fondots@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            It doesn’t matter what it’s called, they’ll continue to oppose addressing it

            That doesn’t mean we need to make it easy for them to oppose it. Don’t give them a stupid way to dismiss the conversation before it even gets off the ground, make them actually defend their position that private sales shouldnt need background checks.

            IMO, getting stuck calling it the gun show loophole when there are better things to call it because that’s what everyone has always called it has the same kind of energy as conservative assholes who refuse to learn a person’s pronouns or old people who never bothered to scrub things like “colored” or “oriental” from their vocabulary. Language can, does, and should change with the times, and we need to keep up with it.

              • Fondots@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                3
                ·
                1 year ago

                Them getting caught up on you calling it the gun show loophole is bikeshedding, and you can solve it by the simple action of calling it something else.

                • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  4
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  Again, there is no possible combination of words that will make the pro-gun community support its closure and you’re doing them a massive favor by implying they have a role in the conversation at all.

                  With Google searches for “private sale loophole” returning results for “gun show loophole” (as well as information about the origin of the term), it could just as easily be argued that you’re muddying the waters for semantics.

                  So I’ll just keep using whatever phrase gets my point across and you can use whatever words you want in the gun-control comments you don’t seem to be making, to placate people who don’t seem to exist, so they don’t use a talking point that’s trivial to address.

      • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        80% of mass shootings isn’t a “Massive percentage”, it’s quite small actually

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          I know you’re trying to say “the people killed by domestic terrorists in America are statistically insignificant” but awkwardly shoehorning it in like that just makes it sound like you don’t understand percentages.

  • Sigilos@ttrpg.network
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    49
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    The logic of this is nonexistent. An argument could be made very convincingly that cars are dangerous to allow in the hands of criminals. 2 tons of metal, well known for and capable of ending a life, with the ability to aid criminal enterprises and avoidance of law enforcement. So should car sales now require a criminal background check? All this would do is further disenfranchise convicted felons, regardless of the actual crime committed, and create new difficulties for a group that includes a very high percentage of people already proven to give no shits about the law who will find and exploit ways to continue activities despite any laws attempting to restrict them.

    • phillaholic@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      You can’t buy a car in most states without insurance. You can’t get insurance without a license. You cannot get a license… and so on. So that’s not a good example.

      • CountryBoy001@lemmynsfw.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        1 year ago

        You might not be able to register it without insurance but you can certainly buy it. Plus a significant number of drivers on the road don’t have insurance because they only pay for it long enough to register the car and then never again. There’s a reason those of us with insurance usually have the option for coverage if the other driver doesn’t.

        • phillaholic@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          The ability to break the law isn’t an argument for not having the law. My point is only that using cars can be used as a weapon is a terrible example. Cars are far far more regulated than guns, and you can’t sneak a car in through a medal detector into a school, airport, etc and start running people over with it inside. I’m not even attempting to justify the background check.

      • FireTower@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        1 year ago

        My understanding was that insurance was typically only a prerequisite for operating on public roadways not ownership. So you can drive a car on your own property if you say had a farm without paying for insurance.

        • phillaholic@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          If you buy private sure, but I’m not sure how liability works then. Typically medical insurance will refuse to cover vehicle related injuries, so if you or someone else is injured while operating their car on your own property you may be SOL.

      • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        I’m not the person you replied to, but it’s an okay comparison. It’s not perfect - 3D printers are way less dangerous than cars - but it conveys the same point.

        Like cars and unlike guns, 3D printers are tools. The federal government prevents a convicted felon from owning a gun, but not from driving; generally speaking, states only prohibit this if you were convicted of reckless driving or some other vehicle related offense.

        Also, once I have a license I can walk into any car dealer and drive out with a car a couple hours later. This law has an up-to-15 day turn around for the background check and no means of attesting that you are licensed and permitted to purchase a 3D printer without waiting. That’s gonna be a pain for everyone who’s interested in a 3D printer. If my car is taken out of service and I need it to get to work, I can buy another. I don’t have to wait 15 days. If my business involves 3D printing and one of my printers breaks down and needs replaced, having to wait an extra 15 days for a replacement is ridiculous.

        If the law said “Felons who were convicted of crimes involving 3D printers may not purchase or own a 3D printer” then that would be more appropriate and closer to how cars are handled.

        IMO a more apt comparison would be to other consumer grade tools, like drills, circular saws, etc… Just because I can theoretically make something dangerous with such a tool doesn’t mean the tool needs to be restricted.

        Afaik NY doesn’t prohibit felons from buying an “80 percent” Glock frame, a Glock slide, and a Dremel, nor does it prevent them from buying a CNC that can mill a full metal gun. (NJ prohibits the first of those (for everyone) and it’s illegal there to construct a gun at home if you aren’t legally permitted to own one, but that’s harder to enforce.) Either of those legal purchase sets enable you to create a gun at home that’s a much more effective firearm than can be 3D printed. Prohibiting them from buying a 3D printer (when technically even an Ender 3 can print a “gun”) is just silly.

        Some stats: in the USA, there were:

        • 1.2 guns per capita in 2017.
        • 333 million residents in 2022
        • estimating 400 million guns in 2022
        • 20k deaths by gun violence in 2022 (and slightly more deaths by suicide involving a gun)
        • 422k or so 3d printers in the US (according to this site in 2020); this number is probably triple or more now, though
        • 0 people killed with guns verified to have been created by 3d printers ever in the US (I found one unverified account)
        • 264 million registered vehicles in 2015
        • 35,485 deaths due to motor vehicle collisions in 2015

        this works out to:

        • 1 homicide per 20k guns in 2022
        • 2.7 deaths per 20k cars in 2015
        • 0 deaths per 20k 3D printers in every year
        • FireTower@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          If that one unverified one is the one I’m thinking out of Rhode Island from Jan 2020 that was a polymer 80 not a 3D printed gun.

        • phillaholic@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          I disagree that it conveys the same point unless your point is that criminals don’t follow laws, so why have laws. Cars are very regulated. You also can’t sneak a car through a metal detector in your pocket and run individuals over indoors. Completely different threats, with completely different availability.

          This bill was just introduced, there’s little detail yet on how this could be accomplished.

          • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            Is that really the point that you took away from my comment? Let me simplify it for you:

            • The law cannot possibly have a positive effect. It cannot reduce deaths no matter how effective it is because there have been no deaths.
            • The law will have an outsized negative effect. It prevents and delays access to tools that are used by businesses, schools, and hobbyists. That’s not even accounting for the cost to review the background checks.

            This bill was just introduced, there’s little detail yet on how this could be accomplished.

            Did you follow the link and read the bill? It lays it all out.

            1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
            2 398-g to read as follows:
            3 § 398-g. Sale of certain three-dimensional printers. 1. Any retailer
            4 of a three-dimensional printer sold in this state which is capable of
            5 printing a firearm, or any components of a firearm, is required and
            6 authorized to request and receive criminal history information concern-
            7 ing such purchaser from the division of criminal justice services in
            8 accordance with the provisions of section eight hundred forty-five-b of
            9 the executive law. Access to and the use of such information shall be
            10 governed by the provisions of such section. The division of criminal
            11 justice services is authorized to submit fingerprints to the federal
            12 bureau of investigation for a national criminal history record check.
            13 2. Within fifteen business days after receiving a request for criminal
            14 history information pursuant to this section, the commissioner of the
            15 division of criminal justice services shall review such criminal history
            16 information and determine whether such purchaser has been convicted
            17 anywhere of a felony or a serious offense or who is not the subject of
            18 an outstanding warrant of arrest issued upon the alleged commission of a
            19 felony or serious offense which would disqualify such individual from
            20 being licensed to carry or possess a firearm under section 400.00 of the
            21 penal law. Such commissioner shall promptly notify the seller of his or
            22 her determination in this regard. No retailer shall sell any three-di-
            23 mensional printer capable of printing a firearm unless the division of
                NEXT PAGE IN PDF
            1 criminal justice services provides written notification of the determi-
            2 nation under this subdivision.
            3 3. For purposes of this section, "three-dimensional printer" means a
            4 computer or computer-driven machine or device capable of producing a
            5 three-dimensional object from a digital model.
            
            • Lines 3-9 - Any retailer of a 3d printer must request and receive a criminal background history for the purchaser from NY criminal justice services.
            • Lines 13-22 - it will take up to 15 business days to review and provide a response.
            • phillaholic@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              4
              ·
              1 year ago

              In this case a neutral effect is better than a negative one. Preventative legislation on something that is a foregone conclusion is relevant. These guns already exist, and printers are getting better. At some point someone will use one to kill someone. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to get out ahead of it. Is this bill it? I don’t know.

              Those Negative effects are not large burdens.

              Yes I read it. It’s not gone through any review yet and is simply written to piggy back on an existing system. The Drone community went through the same thing worth FAA licensing.

        • phillaholic@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          No? Where did you get that from? Maybe if they’ve lost their license for DUI’s or something.

  • pup_atlas@pawb.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    55
    arrow-down
    11
    ·
    1 year ago

    Oh, did we start requiring criminal background checks for pipes and metal stock too? This is the same problem we’re facing in the rest of the country, everything can be used as a weapon, and requiring background checks on all of them is gonna do nothing to stop gun crime. Regulate the damn guns, that is the only thing that will help.

    • edric@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      25
      arrow-down
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      US: We have a gun problem.

      Also, US: We’ve tried everything but regulate guns and we’re all out of ideas!

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        Lol, are you insane? I’m not against better controls, but if you think the US is lacking in gun control laws and regulations you are sorely mistaken.

      • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        arrow-down
        19
        ·
        1 year ago

        No you don’t understand. The pro-gun community would support a solution, it just needs to be instantly and 100% effective without inconveniencing a single gun owner or costing anything.

        It’s a completely reasonable position and not at all just an excuse to do nothing.

        • shortwavesurfer@monero.town
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Maybe the answer is that every single human being should own a gun and carry it every single place they go 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

          • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            5
            ·
            1 year ago

            Isn’t it just fascinating how all the solutions proposed by gun owners and Republican politicians just happen to coincide with what’s most profitable for the gun lobby?

            But I’m sure people who manufacture guns are much more moral than the tobacco industry, oil industry, sugar industry, asbestos industry and all those other groups that got caught putting profits before people’s lives.

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      arrow-down
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      America isn’t the only country in the world with hardware stores yet is still the only country in the world with weekly mass shootings – 80% of which use legally purchased firearms and 0% of which use home made guns.

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Oh I’m sorry, they’ve been used in three mass shootings since 2013, which is almost 0.01% of mass shootings in that period. How terribly misleading of my propaganda.

          Practically neck and neck with the 80% that use legally purchased firearms and the 10% that use the legally purchased and poorly secured firearm of a family member.

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          “The important thing is that no gun owners were mildly inconvenienced”

          - Thousands of dead school children, executed partners and victims of crime

      • Eddie Trax@dmv.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        You’re getting downvoted to shit on most of your comments but just wanted to say you are not wrong.

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Except comments where I use a % – those still have a conspicuously positive score. I wonder if someone’s sleazy tools are being thrown off by it?

  • skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    39
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m a leftist, I don’t support laws like this cause they don’t actually do anything. Dems fr have been supporting initivies to fork over more and more data.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      38
      ·
      1 year ago

      Here’s a fun fact, hobby machinists have been making guns in their garages for as long as machining has been a career.

      You can, right now, buy a drill press for a few hundred bucks and finish 80% lowers in an apartment if you want. If you have a lot of money to spend you could buy a mini mill and make the job a lot easier.

      These are completely unregulated and arguably much more dangerous.

      Have fun with that knowledge.

      • skyspydude1@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Hell, you can make a basic pipe shotgun with a $5 hacksaw and some steel pipe. Not only that, but you can pretty convert tons of guns to full auto with basically no effort. Sometimes literally a piece of coat hanger bent with pliers. The Lightning Link, which can convert a majority of modern ARs to full auto has been around for decades and can be made with about $1 worth of steel, a piece of paper with the design printed on it, and that hacksaw you used earlier. Even some guy in his garage could easily make hundreds a year without a single power tool.

        All of this is to say, you know what we don’t see? Millions of illegal full-auto firearms being used to re-enact the minigun scene from Terminator 2. Much to the shock of our government, the vast majority of citizens are law-abiding, and stupid shit like this once again only harms normal people while criminals will just continue to break the law as usual.

        • Wogi@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          There is a decent community of 3d printed firearms, but they’re not printing pressure chambers or barrels. These things can be and frequently are regulated. These guys are printing crazy looking guns for fun. They still have to go buy the important bits and even then they still fail pretty regularly.

          This is some real brain dead legislation

          • skyspydude1@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            1 year ago

            Oh, I’m well aware and I’m part of that community, which is what makes this so hilarious. US gun legislation hasn’t ever really been based on reality, and always amazes me that in a country where guns are such an integral part of its history and culture, we have people who seemingly know less than nothing about anything firearms related effectively making legislation based on something they saw in a movie that one time.

      • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 year ago

        And I can’t even remember the last time a crime was committed with a made-at-home gun. We’re really going after the people that commit all the violence. 🙄

        It’s such an easy window into the fact that it’s about cutting the access to weapons of the population who might use them to fight back against government action. They dgaf if we murder each other, they just don’t want us murdering them.

        • sparky_gnome@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          I think it’s stupider than that. They have no idea how a handmade gun could be built without a 3d printer. They probably have zero clue what a 3d printer actually can and cannot do, and I’d bet most politicians have never seen one or bothered to understand it before regulating it. Their sole exposure is a few loud people who also do not understand anything about guns or 3d printers, and confuse that lack of understanding with definitive proof that it is evil and should be banned.

        • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Same principle applies to the frequent attempts to ban semi-auto rifles, when rifles account for 3% or less of all homicides annually.

          Those kind of weapons are effective for defending / attacking a moderate sized area, unlike pistols and bolt-action rifles. Pistols are short range and bolt-action rifles are slow. It’s obviously about the power that they don’t want the people to have.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, you can make a firearm with a piece of bamboo (this is basically what the first firearms were). To think you can restrict anyone from making a firearm is insane. You literally wouldn’t be allowed to own anything if the capability of it making parts of a firearm is restricted. Drill press, lathe, and just about any tool should be restricted if that’s the requirement.

    • BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      It seems pretty clear that this is trying to target the production of switch devices that turn firearms fully automatic, to which I would recommend going after the social media companies that allow these devices to be sold openly on their platforms. That’s where these devices are coming from. Sure, plenty of them came out of a 3D printer, but most people on the street with them bought them from somebody else, no matter how they were manufactured.

      Just enforce existing laws against switches, ghost guns, and automatic firearms, and go after any company that enables or profits from their sale. Regulating 3D printer sales won’t solve the issue, because 3D printers are actually somewhat trivial to build, and you don’t have to print these things in New York to sell them in New York.

        • JewGoblin@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          10
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          lol wasn’t the first gun law in America enacted to keep Black Americans from buying or possessing firearms?

          • Khotetsu@lib.lgbt
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            Yup. In California, in fact. By a Republican governor named Ronald Reagan.

        • blindbunny@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          1 year ago

          With all the wonderful things 3d printers can do they chose to focus on one thing. Effectively removing rights from people who never got to exercise them.

          • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            11
            ·
            1 year ago

            There’s a certain section of Democrats for whom as soon as you say “guns” they turn off their brains and vote for whatever they’re told to.

            Much like “immigrants” or any number of right wing triggers. There’s fewer of them on the left but they work the same way.

      • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        1 year ago

        It seems pretty clear that this is trying to target the production of switch devices that turn firearms fully automatic

        Then they’re even dumber than I thought, since those can be made with a coat hanger and a set of needle nose pliers.

  • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    36
    ·
    1 year ago

    This is just a way to restrict individual freedom from corporate ownership. It’s the equivalent of “for the children”. If you’re against guns don’t fall for this bait, support some other legislation.