small_crow@lemmy.ca to Alberta@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year ago'It's alarming nationally': ALERT seizes nearly 100 3D-printed firearms in Albertaedmontonjournal.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-link'It's alarming nationally': ALERT seizes nearly 100 3D-printed firearms in Albertaedmontonjournal.comsmall_crow@lemmy.ca to Alberta@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoThe problem is we decided to regulate the one piece of a firearm that’s now the easiest to 3d print. Everything else you can buy online. If we regulated barrels instead, people couldn’t make a Glock at home. And they definitely couldn’t make an AR
minus-squarePyroNeurosis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoI think you vastly underestimate the gunprinting community, but it would make it more difficult for some people.
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYeah, go ahead and 3d print a barrel and let me know how that works out… A barrel isn’t a straight pipe either, you’d need a CNC machine
The problem is we decided to regulate the one piece of a firearm that’s now the easiest to 3d print.
Everything else you can buy online.
If we regulated barrels instead, people couldn’t make a Glock at home. And they definitely couldn’t make an AR
I think you vastly underestimate the gunprinting community, but it would make it more difficult for some people.
Yeah, go ahead and 3d print a barrel and let me know how that works out…
A barrel isn’t a straight pipe either, you’d need a CNC machine
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