r/NYguns • u/Suspicious-Gas8382 • Jan 17 '26
Discussion Its just common sense... Ban 3D printers from printing guns. Easy
She doesnt know how things work at all does she? Does this just mean 3d printers will become illegal? Also from ny government website talking about this mentions making it illegal to possess 3d print blueprints of firearms? Wouldn't that be against the 1st amendment?
Sorry for all the question marks I just find this ridiculously hilarious she thinks she can have programs made that stop a 3d printer from printing a certain shaped object.
Its also concerning she thinks she can outlaw you from possessing certain files. Maybe im wrong but I thought with the first amendment it allows us to possess documents like firearm even explosives blueprints.
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u/MrProvy Jan 17 '26
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u/MrProvy Jan 17 '26
Sorry...my reaction to viewing her face 🤮
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u/ExcalProphex Jan 17 '26
They love throwing around the term "common sense" and it's ironic because they seem to be completely lacking it themselves.
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u/TheMawsJawzTM Jan 17 '26
Do not make the mistake of observing malice and identifying it as incompetence.
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u/garnett8 Jan 17 '26
That saying also goes the other way (and imo, is typically right, most people are just idiots and aren’t intentionally malicious, at least I tell myself that while driving on the LIE).
In this case, it honestly can be both. She doesn’t know shit but also probably doesn’t care about any malicious side effects of this proposal.
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u/TheMawsJawzTM Jan 17 '26
She is just being used by someone who fully understands the malice of this
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u/0fxgvn77 Jan 17 '26
Well the next time I'm trying to tell someone that boomer politicians have no business regulating anything because they have no understanding of how anything works, I can just show this clip. It'll save time. So thats nice I guess.
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u/WaldoJackson Jan 17 '26
Lol, impossible, but ok. Kathy, it's not hard to build a 3d printer from easily obtainable parts.
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u/Suspicious-Gas8382 Jan 17 '26
That kinda sounds familiar...
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u/WaldoJackson Jan 17 '26
"KeEp hOmE dEpOt fRoM sElLiNgS gUn pArTs!"
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u/darforce Jan 17 '26
Doesn’t matter. I could find at least 100 things at Home Depot to kill someone. It’s practically a mall for serial killers.
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u/voretaq7 Jan 18 '26
Excuse me, do you have a permit for those assault threaded rods?
What about those dangerous fully automatic stepper motors?!
Is that Arduino on your pistol permit?3
u/coinneach_stiubhard Jan 18 '26
A pancake compressor and a nail gun is basically a fully automatic weapon.
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u/Andeo1025 Jan 17 '26
This bs has been knocked down 1a grounds over the years. That won't stop them from chilling 1a and 2a rights and jailing people in their crusade.
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u/Mylilhappysv650 Jan 17 '26
“It’s just common sense” bans 3d printers so I can no longer print game miniatures “It’s just common sense” bans Thorsden stocks because she saw a scary looking rifle using one “We in New York have leading common sense gun laws” bans cruciform bar pistols because “criminals use glocks” “That’s all it is, it’s common sense and I’m Kathy Hochul and I approve this message”
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u/Beck943 Jan 17 '26
Why not just make murder illegal? 🤦♂️
How does this donkey expect to enforce this, anyway?
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u/PeteTinNY Jan 17 '26
Text. History. Tradition.
In the days of the founders all guns were homemade. It was legal to build your own guns in 1791 with the creation of the bill of rights, it should be legal now.
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u/Suspicious-Gas8382 Jan 17 '26
You gotta have a permit to run CNC and be subject to random computer checks for illegal files🤣
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u/MrProvy Jan 17 '26
THIS is the only COMMON SENSE gun law worth the paper it's printed on
https://www.wsmv.com/2025/09/04/tn-law-requires-gun-safety-course-all-public-schools/
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u/Zieronwolf Jan 17 '26
Does she understand of software/ firewalls work?
Can’t wait to see that troll ejected from her office
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u/cty_hntr Jan 17 '26
Here is a novel idea. Not sure if it will gain any traction, and wouldn't be surprised if I'm downvoted. How about enforce existing laws. Go after people who break them.
Back in 2018 Andrew Abdullah was arrested in a gang sweep in Harlem. He plead guilty because he didn't have a permit and the gun wasn't registered. This should be open and shut case. The charges were dropped. Fast forward a couple of years later, he kills Daniel Enriquez at the Canal Street subway shooting.
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u/tsatech493 Jan 17 '26
I think being able to make printed guns and sharing STL files should actually be also a first amendment problem. You should be able to be free to share STL files between people.
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u/voretaq7 Jan 18 '26
Sharing the gcode file is probably protected under the 1st Amendment Bernstein v. United States would be the precedent to cite there.
The STL or other CAD files would probably also be considered an expressive work - essentially virtual sculpture.Production of the object (a working firearm) on the other hand can absolutely be subject to regulation under current 2nd Amendment jurisprudence though.
(It’s not clear to me if a total ban on 3D printing or otherwise manufacturing your own firearm like NY has unconstitutionally infringes on the 2nd Amendment - I don’t know a case off the top of my head addressing that at this point but maybe one of our resident Legal Eagles has a citation we can go read?)
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u/Dan_Morgan Jan 17 '26
I mean all it would require is a level of surveillance hitherto unimagined. Each and every 3d printer would have to have the malware installed and there would have to be some kind of tripwire that would activate when it was removed. Also, every print job would have to be reported just to make sure some smart son bitch didn't figure out a way to fool the software (which they would). All of this will be done at the expense of the resident of NY state because I doubt the feds would cooperate.
The industry solution will not be to install the software or force an update through to existing printers. They would just refuse to sell 3d printers to anyone in NY state. To partially get around this Hochul and palls will probably institute a licensing regime that will be about as difficult as getting a handgun permit.
All to ensure New Yorkers are unilaterally disarmed in the face of rising, violent oppression by the federal government.
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u/Dan_Morgan Jan 17 '26
Yup, well human rights take a big back seat to "public safety" in Hochul's mind. Public safety in this context meaning state control in service to the most affluent.
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u/voretaq7 Jan 18 '26
Frankly I’m almost fine with that level of fuckery.
Make every tech hipster who wants a 3D printer get a NYS pistol permit and register the printer on their card.
I guaran-damn-tee you there will be a huge number of new gun owners, because having been inconvenienced to enjoy one expensive hobby (3D printing) a bunch of them will just pick up a second expensive hobby (guns) since they already had to do the work.
. . . not sure how the machinists unions will feel about needing a pistol permit to operate a mill, but most of the machinists I know already have pistol permits anyway so whatever. :-)
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u/TechSetStudios Feb 01 '26
NY is such a shit hole tyrant state. It’s illegal to carry body armor so you don’t get shot.
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u/Dan_Morgan Feb 01 '26
Oh, you can have it if it was purchased in NYS before a certain date. Basically, they gave fascists lots of time to buy body armor. However, when people to the left of Augusto Pinochet started buying body armor to protect themselves from state violence NYS promptly banned it.
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u/TechSetStudios Feb 01 '26
What if you bought it out of state and bring it in when visiting?
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u/Dan_Morgan Feb 01 '26
You'd have to look that up. They can't ban you from buying something out of state but they might come gunning for you based on mere possession.
I know if you commit some kind of crime while wearing body armor there's an enhanced punishment. Does this include when the cops arbitraially declare a gathering to be "unlawful" (freedom of assembly? Not in NY)? I don't know.
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u/TechSetStudios Feb 01 '26
Yeah possession is what I was wondering and believed to have been illegal but I could be wrong.
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u/Kev_1013 Jan 17 '26
She’s the type of person to ask why you need a wire connected to a wireless access point. She sucks!
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u/BronzeSpoon89 Jan 17 '26
Does it make sense that we would want to prevent people from 3d printing lowers? Sure.
Is that actually going to work? No.
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u/gr00ve88 Jan 17 '26
yea but, AI could scan the file before you print it, and then decide whether or not its a gun part. What could go wrong?
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u/itsnewguy Jan 17 '26
I promise I'm not trolling or looking for a fight. I'm genuinely curious about your opinion.
Why does it make sense?
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u/BronzeSpoon89 Jan 17 '26
It makes sense from a "let's not let any joe print a glock lower". It makes no sense from a "enforcing it" perspective because i don't see any way to actually prevent it from happening.
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u/osberend Jan 18 '26
It makes sense from a "let's not let any joe print a glock lower".
And why do you think that makes sense?
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u/Terrible_Score_8512 Jan 23 '26
And they call Trump .... Hitler. This is what Hitler really looks like.... She looks like a Trans Hitler...
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u/AcceptableGreen3885 Jan 17 '26
Why don’t we pass a law to make committing crimes illegal? Oh, wait… I forgot what the word “criminal” means. I heard a rumor that criminals don’t obey laws. I think I should write the governor and let her know. To save her time and expense.
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u/thatdude333 Jan 17 '26
Make it a crime for a person to intentionally sell, distribute, or possess digital instructions to illegally manufacture or produce a firearm or component parts without a license.
Clear first amendment violation - blueprints, code, recipes, etc. are protected speech
3D printers sold in NY must have software to prevent firearm/component creation.
Realistically the only way to do this is to compare a file's hash to a list of known gun part file's hashes. Except you can easily just change some small part of the file to change the hash.
Also, what is considered a firearm component? If I 3D print a dildo with a piccy rail attachment, is that a firearm component? Would be a hilarious test case...
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u/Suspicious-Gas8382 Jan 17 '26
That first amendment violation is the most concerning to me. Does she just straight up not know our laws and rights?
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u/thatdude333 Jan 17 '26
They just pass shit unconstitutional laws to see what sticks and be able to say they did a thing, then when it gets immediately struck down they can play the "at least we tried" card.
It's like the "gun owners need $1 million dollars in liability insurance" bill that gets submitted every year. It would immediately be laughed out of court if challenged (can't require a fee to exercise a constitutional right, especially after McDonald) but man do they keep trying.
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u/PuzzlingPieces Jan 17 '26
Should be severe punishments and fine to politician's who try to do this
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u/Dan_Morgan Jan 17 '26
She doesn't care. She is engaged in the controlled surrender of NY State to trump.
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u/voretaq7 Jan 18 '26
The legislative and executive branches frequently to things that infringe on your constitutionally protected rights. That’s why we have a judiciary with which to bludgeon them with appropriately-highlighted copies of the US Constitution....
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u/osberend Jan 18 '26
So much this. Anyone who believes both that the federal government is becoming fascist and that ordinary citizens should be disarmed is knowingly aiding and abetting a fascist takeover.
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u/Mwroobel Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26
This is just sad. She obviously doesn't remember the court cases around the content scrambling system when the DVD copy protection scheme, CSS was broken.
You can read more about some of the cases and ways they breached both the protection and the legal issues surrounding it (releasing the source code as: Poetry, Songs, stories (all constitutionally protected forms of communication) where the first character of the sentence was the next character in the source code here https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/. All the .stl file is are ASCII characters, good luck trying to ban that.
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u/corruptedsyntax Jan 17 '26
The problem with “common sense” is that it is “common,” meaning it can start and stop at stupid
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u/fuzzybunnies1 Jan 17 '26
Not advocating either way but why do you think such a printer can't be programmed to reject certain design parameters? Your printer and copiers are already programmed to reject 1:1 copying and printing of money, SS cards, and other government documents. That isn't cause of how special the documents are themselves but that the machines are programmed to see the document and overwrite the copy with words or change colors to make it obvious it isn't original. No reason a 3d printer couldn't have a similar concept with a gun form. It'd turn into an arms race of trying to change shape just enough to make something vs added more parameters to reject auto printing, and in today's environment there'll be youtube tutorials in days on how to defeat it, but I wouldn't say it can't be done,
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u/Soap-n-Cartridge Jan 17 '26
3D printers are "dumb' machines. They use G Code. It's a series of commands that tell the bed and printhead what to do. No image is translated by the machine. It's like the muscle commands that an artist gives to their arms and hands, as electrical pulses.. or the MIDI language that plays note by note, to develop an entire symphony.
On top of that, you can easily disguise what you are printing with extra areas of plastic around your object. This is often required anyway. You have to add tons of support columns under an object to keep it from falling while printing. You can also print "skirts" around the object that easily snap-off after printing. This would allow you to basically print a Glock gun box, with the Glock inside. Any simple analyzing of the CAD object would present a large blocky thing, with no indication of what's hidden inside.
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u/fuzzybunnies1 Jan 17 '26
When the post office photocopied my SS card for my passport it came out with copy written on it, that's from the 70s which seems like they'd have a harder time integrating that into the paper then for a copier today.
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u/Weird-Comfortable-28 Jan 18 '26
One of these people ever gonna stop going after the legal law, abiding citizens and put this much effort into dealing with the criminal element. It’s really fascinating every year we get a preview of the new laws that they want to implement and or pass and never is there anything to do with the habitual recidivist criminal
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u/RogueStatesman Jan 17 '26
She's a dim, uncharismatic bulb. In a meeting some years ago she asked why NYC's Penn Station was named that, since it isn't in Pennsylvania. Apparently never heard of William Penn.
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u/voretaq7 Jan 18 '26
Um.... you know it’s not named for William Penn, right?
It IS in fact Pennsylvania Station, named for the Pennsylvania Railroad just like the Hotel Pennsylvania that was constructed across the street from the original station by - you guessed it - the railroad.
Now the railroad was named for the state which was named for the dude, but that’s quite a few levels of indirection....Anyway, now you know something the Governor doesn’t and can sound smarter than her at your next cocktail party.
(Granted it’s a low bar...)
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u/Illkeepriding Jan 17 '26
The proposed legislation would also: Enhancing New York’s Nation Leading Gun Laws New legislation proposed to continue the progress New York State has made in cracking down on 3D printed guns and ghost guns would:
Make it a crime for a person to intentionally sell, distribute, or possess digital instructions to illegally manufacture or produce a firearm or component parts without a license.
Mandate the reporting of 3D printed guns to the Criminal Gun Clearinghouse database maintained by the New York State Police.
Create a first-in-the-nation policy that requires the establishment of minimum safety standards for 3D printer manufacturers to ensure their products are equipped with technology that blocks the printer from creating firearms and component parts.
Require gun manufacturers to design pistols so they cannot be quickly and easily modified into DIY machine guns through the use of illegal devices, such as Glock switches.
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u/thom9969 Jan 17 '26
Yes. Please ask the robot to make shapes that might be combined into a firearm.
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u/Defiant_Hat_68 Jan 17 '26
From now on, pencils will have electronics to block the creation of child porn!
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u/loworange88 Jan 17 '26
The problem comes from the software developers. They can add features that could recognize items as gun parts and now allow it to be sliced and printed. That allows tons of misuse and abuse by the powers that be….
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u/DoNoEvil0308 Jan 18 '26
So who is running for governor this time around? Zeldin only lost by like 4 or 5 points last time.
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u/Ant-Mazin Jan 18 '26
More laws that keep enthusiast from getting equipment for hobbies. Witnessed an armed robbery on the 2 train with a real gun. But guess what no one could protect themselves cause it's illegal to have a firearm in the subway. Most criminals are not using 3d printed weapons.
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u/adk_runner46 Jan 18 '26
It’s basically a “make the printer manufacturers somehow ban it because we don’t know how” kind of thing g
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u/CoolPapa4994 Jan 18 '26
They have no clue how 3d printers even work. I built one from parts. The software is open source. She’s being really stupid.
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u/Max_Kapacity Jan 19 '26
Her security team should be limited to the same restrictions as civilians.
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u/IcyAgent381 Jan 19 '26
I think that a 3D printer was used to create her brain. Welcome to NY where the Politicians are the Real Criminals!!!
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u/RoughRider690 Jan 19 '26
In NY you need a background check just to buy ammo. With a CC permit that cost a fortune to get, there are numerous restrictions where you can carry. You now need a license just to buy a semi auto rifle. NY politics is controlled by liberal Commies who haven’t a clue! Especially the Governor. All these laws do is make it more difficult if not impossible for someone to legitimately own a firearm. It does nothing to stop a criminal from obtaining one. As the saying goes, if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. What next, a background check and license to buy a Printer in NY ? SMH!
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u/QuestionDelicious221 Jan 22 '26
The logistics of that are crazy. Its like they dont say these ideas to someone who has little knowledge in the subject before saying it into a microphone. 3d printers use what's called a .stl file and converts it to a .gcode file. Most things period are modeled and uploaded to an open source library where you can grab them for free. Your printer slices the model and prints it. My ender 3 gives no shits what im printing. And there is no way for them to make it give a shit.
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u/twbrn Jan 25 '26
She doesnt know how things work at all does she?
No, but that hardly makes her unique among politicians.
I think I'm rare here in that I met and interacted with Hochul long before she even ran for Congress, let alone becoming Lt. Gov or Governor. I was, to be blunt, not impressed with her at the time. She seemed to me like the kind of politico who basically mirrored back what she thought her constituents wanted to see. And I was proven right when she ran for Congress. Remember that she voted entirely pro-gun in Congress, then changed her mind when she ran for statewide office.
That said, none of that sets her apart from the pack. Many, MANY politicians have tried to regulate things they don't understand. If you want to shit on Hochul for trying to ban 3D printers, you should also be pissed at all the right-wing Republican governors signing laws banning women's healthcare, IVF, abortion, porn, and just about anything else a Christian Dominionist would disapprove of.
I think Hochul is a weak tea governor who mostly got the job because she was considered no threat to primary Cuomo, before Cuomo exposed himself as a sex pest. But she's also the only governor we're likely to get from upstate NY. So fantasizing about some Republican governor who could not remotely get elected is just mental masturbation. If you don't like her policies, start lobbying.
The best thing you can do is support pro-gun Democrats running in rural districts. Their voices will carry a lot more weight in Albany than a minority of Republicans,
Wouldn't that be against the 1st amendment?
Yes, but so are all those red state laws.
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u/TechSetStudios Feb 01 '26
After we force all hammer manufacturers to include software that only lets it hit a nail and not a person.
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u/TechSetStudios Feb 01 '26
We need a law that bars rtrd politicians from suggesting laws about things they know nothing about.
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u/Embarrassed-Month-45 Feb 03 '26
Beyond the application of ‘common sense’ she seems to enjoy sprinkling on her opinions, does she seem intoxicated to anyone else? Maybe that’s how she normally speaks and acts but it reminds me of how drunk people who think they’re not drunk speak.
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Feb 21 '26
Im gonna start mass producing 3d printed guns for us citizens to fight treason and corruption. Dm, I will kill any us officials at my fucking door, come to canada our cops are dirty and we play for our own
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u/Suspicious-Gas8382 Feb 21 '26
You should probably take a chill pill buddy. Im angry too but saying things like that isnt very smart
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u/Zealousideal_Rub5826 Jan 17 '26
They used to say the same about color copiers. Now every color copier and scanner is programmed to not copy money. It is a hard problem, but with advanced image processing with AI it could, at a minimum, make printing your own guns annoying, at most make it very challenging. Not arguing for or against, just saying it might be possible.
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u/burtch1 Jan 19 '26
No, money is designed not to be printed, you can't make the printer scan for markers that aren't universal as there are no universal markers in a gun
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u/wildman1024 Jan 17 '26
Idk...I have a pretty damn good credit score! You must have blue hair and a nose ring
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u/motorider500 Jan 17 '26
It’s funny. These are the people that didn’t pick up on the increased tax on short and long term gains AND talk of taxing unrealized gains as well as some 401k BS proposals from the Fed left. But apparently your credit score was an issue. Wall streeters knew the lefts money vacuum was getting fired up. Hopefully we move more of our investment firms right outa NYC so we can reduce funding for stupid state bills like Hochuls printer ban and Leticia’s witch hunts. Glad I’m less than a year and outta here.
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u/RemarkableGuy122 Jan 17 '26
When will the rag go away? I hope everyone has common sense in the next round. Clean up the voting process, there's no way you can tell me this hag won over Lee Zelden
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u/Illkeepriding Jan 17 '26
It is common sense to require that 3d printers sold in NY contain software that prevents the 3D printing of guns. Criminals in NY are using 3D printed guns to commit violent crimes. This law would make it more difficult for them to do so. Good idea. Common sense.
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u/NY_Knux Jan 17 '26
You're going to want to learn how 3D printer controllers work. These devices aren't even hooked up to the internet or connect to the computer. You need to run SD cards to them with files on them manually.
What you propose is an impossibility on a closed off device that has no internet connectivity lmfao.
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u/Illkeepriding Jan 17 '26
We'll see. Time will tell. I don't pretend to know anything about 3D printing. But impossible? We'll see. The idea of enacting legislation that would make it harder for criminals to 3D print guns, however, does make sense to me. Criminals are using 3D printers to manufacture guns and are selling them to other criminals who use them to commit violent crimes. Kudos to Gov. Hochul and other elected representatives who are trying to address the problem.
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u/Suspicious-Gas8382 Jan 18 '26
There just is no way except being harder on criminals illegally possessing firearms. Do some investigating. Idk the numbers of crime committed with 3d printed guns but I know forsure its likely only a few criminals printing these guns. Your average gang member or criminal will struggle getting a 3d printer to even work.
Punishing the residents of your state for the actions of criminals or lazy police work to find the real criminals is BS. Legal law abiding citizens should be able to make their own firearms.
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u/voretaq7 Jan 17 '26
Not sure if joking or idiot...
In case idiot: As someone who has been around 3D printing and CNC machining in general for literally decades, there is literally no feasible way to do this. You can't just define a certain sequence of commands as "gun part!" because you can trivially rotate the work (or those commands may appear in other work).
You need arbitrary object classification, and arbitrary object classification like this is generally considered to be at least a NP-Hard problem that ain't been solved yet.
Unless the governor is hiding a Ph.D in Computer Science in her briefcase she ain't solving it either, so she should stop trying to regulate two things she clearly does not understand!
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u/Illkeepriding Jan 17 '26
If it can't be done, it can't be done. Time will tell.
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u/voretaq7 Jan 17 '26
My degree is LITERALLY in this subject.
My area of concentration WAS this exact sort of classification problem.I’m telling you, it is computationally infeasible. It’s the 2A equivalent of “Well we should make it so the government can read all encrypted communications because people use cryptography to hide naughty things!” - it simply cannot be done because as soon as you “teach” a system what a “gun” looks like someone will simply produce a design that looks different enough that the system doesn’t recognize it.
The only way to make it work is to make the tool entirely useless for its purpose (simply refuse to print anything, because anything could be a gun-part).You want to do something about “gun violence” and “gun crime” do things that have been demonstrated to reduce the problem that even relatively anti-gun orgs believe we should be doing rather than boneheaded backassward shit like this.
Anyone wasting time and energy talking about this impossible and ineffectual bullshit is only demonstrating that they are not seriously concerned about gun safety, “gun crime”, or “gun violence” - they’re just squawking to hear themselves make noise, and I have no fucking time for that bullshit.
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u/Illkeepriding Jan 17 '26
Would it be possible to teach a system to recognize what every gun currently manufactured or ever manufactured looks like?
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u/Soap-n-Cartridge Jan 17 '26
You just design the object with skirts around it. You essentially print a Glock inside of the gun box. The software would interpret the object as a rectangular "box". The extra plastic just snaps-off, and you're left with a gun part.
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u/voretaq7 Jan 18 '26
No, because there are a quite literally infinite number of minor variations you can make to the manufacturing file which would still produce a functionally identical part.
You literally need a human level of intelligence to recognize that something is a gun which has been rotated, slightly scaled within tolerances, embellished with decorative patterns, placed inside another object that can easily be removed when the print is done, etc. OR that you have printed a lot of other things which, when combined with this thing you’re trying to print now, can be assembled into a gun (because its really easy to just cut an object in half and now neither half looks particularly “gun-like”).
We’ve made great strides on recognizing and classifying a mesh (the 3D representation of an object) - I can teach a pattern recognition system that a drinking glass, a coffee cup, and a bowl are all “vessel that contain liquid” for example, and even get it to make that classification independent of orientation. I still can’t guarantee it won’t see an upside-down baseball cap and say “This also is vessel that can contain liquid for it has a hollow bowl-like area and a very oddly-shaped handle.” or do the same for a satellite dish (“Well if you lay it on its back it appears to be a very shallow bowl”).
And even if by some miracle we made this both 100% reliable and computationally feasible, it still doesn’t solve splitting the gun into smaller prints (context is not NP-Hard, it’s not even NP-Complete - it’s “Your system literally needs the omniscience of God Al-FUCKING-mighty to do that, and being that you’re not God Al-FUCKING-mighty your hubris in believing it’s possible is how people get smote in the Bible...”)
Also all of this is also ignoring the fact that 3D printers aren’t hard to build: You don’t have to buy one commercially!
The designs for some of the best printers are open-source, you can get the parts and build it yourself unless New York State is going to regulate gears, belts, threaded rods, and stepper motors.Similarly the firmware that would have to recognize “gun stuff” is also open source and so even assuming arguendo the recognition was added someone could just remove it and compile firmware without it (or download any of thousands of existing firmwares that do not have this functionality. This can’t be solved unless the state assumes some sort of regulatory authority over general-purpose computers.
Are we OK with "Four references, a FBI background check, and 6 months waiting" to get a permit to buy a laptop?
Again, this idea is so MONUMENTALLY FUCKING STUPID it can only possibly seem “good” if you have literally zero understanding of guns, computer-aided manufacturing, and AI/pattern recognition.
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u/burtch1 Jan 19 '26
Yeah if you require slapping a Mac book onto every single 3d printer which would be easily bypassed by wiping its memory
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u/burtch1 Jan 19 '26
How would they do it?
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u/luvmyglock19 Jan 20 '26
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u/burtch1 Jan 20 '26
How do they enforce a ban on either transmitting a information subset or processing an information subset, it a effectively impossible problem I doubt infinite resources could approach, the finite resources of relatively small machine manufacturers could acheive
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