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NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers
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Here's tempest's foolproof method of not dying to suicide:
1. don't fricking kill yourself
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How are you supposed to avoid this if you come across information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?
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My body my choice
NOOOOOO! NOT LIKE THAT! STOP BEING DO VIOLENT
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No, i dont? Because suicide is in my own hands to decide, not some neighbor with bootleg yeezies hitting every building in a 3-block radius.
Redditors are so cucking r-slurred. Obviously homicide is a bigger danger to public safety than suicide!
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Leftoids when you don't think children should be able to check out books with graphic depictions of buttsex from the school library: REEEEE FASCISM REEEE BOOK BURNING REEEE
Leftoids when adults want to 3D print cheap plastic trinkets: OI MATE YOU GOT A LOICENSE FOR THAT PRINTER?
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Is this fricking /pol/ now, b-word? Keep yourself safe
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You first.
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Fight me irl cute twink
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ok
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I'd beat both of you up at the same time lmao
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hot
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He said beat up, not beat off.
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He obviously made a typo.
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It'd be easy what with all your heart attacks
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My secret ninjustsu is called a gun
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Don't like government requiring a license for fricking printers, must be a poltard. Keep yourself safe.
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Thinking liberal dem NY is fricking leftoid is fricking peak /pol/ that entire whataboutist strawman is fricking peaker /pol/
Gun. Mouth. Head back. Keep yourself safe
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Darn, they're only liberal democrats (which are defined in America as the more left wing of the two major parties) aren't leftoids. Leftoids have a clear definition and it's not a left-wing party. Fricking blow your merriam webster dictionary butt head clean off.
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How could I forget to a fricking rightoid everyone that isn't a fricking qtard is a fricking gommie.
Drink bleach.
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Left doesn't equal left, ok r-slur. "You aren't a leftoid until you literally sucking Marx's peepee, everything else is center". Please keep defining words in "unique" ways, it's very entertaining. I hope you live a long and happy life with your goldfish brain.
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!commies you heard it here folx, the fricking democratixs are fricking GOMMIES feat. This rightoid
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All popular American political figures are liberals, within the liberal paradigm the democrats are the left wing party. you could have just put the marx quote about guns and been done with it.
vs
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If the proletariat is meant to seize the means of production, then maybe we should be giving free 3d printers to everyone.
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Did I ever call the New York Dems commies? Are you illiterate or just schizophrenic? I merely called them leftoids. The fact that you only define leftoids as commies, is literally what I have been arguing about. You mental and probably physical midget.
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Common sense 3D printer laws
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what the frick this guy sure trusts the science
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This is so dumb. The kinda guys who print guns aren't the kind of guys who have records (unless they've been picked up for fed posting). Gangbangers arentprinting temp towers dialing in their polycarbonate settings lol this bill will catch no one
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Hey give me some of those vaxxes
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Did you get any?
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@SalemWitch_666 nice try
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Why did you bite me?
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heard there was a zombie that bites gay people
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This is too much
Don't forget to turn off signatures in settings!
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Lol, no background check for actual milling machines, those are fine
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Bunch of pipe bombs would be a lot more devastating than a 3D printer gun. @xiraBOOlt and @Modern_Major_DEADeral what do you think how many inaccurate shots you could take with a 3d gun? one two or maybe 3?
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Fully 3d printed? 1, maybe 2.
Mostly 3d printed? Around 100-200, not very accurate
3d printed with homemade metal components? I think people can get around 1,500-2,000 before something breaks
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3d printed with actual gun internals? Depends, but very very long.
https://twitter.com/printingguns/status/1545506698055540741
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I think all the ones that can be 100% homemade are like single shot 22s. Most of the time they print lower receivers and still use barrels and bolts and a lot of the time an upper of a real gun. I think those aren't controlled the same way the lower is
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For AR pattern guns the lower receiver is legally the gun and the "regulated" part. The rest of the parts are just chunks of metal or plastic in the eye of the law. Different for different guns though. Funnily enough no single part on an AR pattern gun fits the legal defintion of "receiver." Almost blew up big time in the ATF's face a few years ago and caused them to drop a case rather than let that stick as precedent.
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Depends how much of it is 3d printed. Literally plastic
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how about a background check to buy ABS piping and BBQ igniters and Aquanet hairspray
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Uh oh, Fedsey!
Frick
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pipes banned next?
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Just go full bong
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Its a private company
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I hate HN users so much it's unreal.
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Lmao good thing I just got a brand new one last month
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how many guns have you printed?
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i live in NY, the one state where its illegal to posses 3d printed firearms (4)
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what's a good one run you now
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Depends on what you mean by good. The ender 3v2, the best starter printer around will run you about 200-250, while the top of the line, best of the best (bambu x1c) is around 1,200
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Cool. 200 isn't bad.
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Figure another hundred for various upgrades. I think the V2 comes with automatic bed leveling and glass bed but there's still room for improvement.
I have the Pro which was the default "first printer" for years. It's just now reaching end-of-life as newer versions reach a similar price.
Added bed leveling, direct drive, all metal hotend, AC bed, and an enclosure to mine. If you have an old phone lying around that supports USB-PD (or whatever that is that allows charging while a slave device is connected, using a Y-cable), you can set it up as an Octoprint server without having to peepee around with raspberry pis. It's a good use for my Pixel 2 XL that has atrocious battery life.
I'm kind of pissed that this shutdown at work went so late. I've got some pieces for my car I needed to have printed by Friday morning, but discovered last night I fricked up the models at some point
Like, the red/orange/black/grey parts in the upper left are all perfectly good and match the previous version just fine. What happened that the green and blue are shifted? I have a cover that goes over all this that has to align with the green properly, and the blue is trimmed to fit. It's not ok to have that much variance and simply 'moving' these parts goes against the entire reason I spent the past two weeks remaking everything; the old project file was 2Β½ years old and had so many tweaks/kludges/fixes that it was darn near impossible to make any modifications. This was a complete redo using the old parts as a reference, assembling them the correct size/shape the first time
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Prusa Mini
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I bet they don't require background checks for milling machines and lathes tho lol
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How should we help prisoners get back into society?
How about we give them jail sentences to prove they have been punished for their crime, then free them and restrict them once they are free to the point of again punishing them for their crime a second time the rest of their lives?
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Based tbqh
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don't they know you can build your own 3d printer? it used to be a maker rite of passage and it's far easier now since mature slicers & firmware are FOSS. common new york L
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I remember when basically all 3d printers you bought the first thing you had to do was print the rest of it
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Shocked that EU wasn't first to do this, or at least one of the member countries
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On a related note, thank you cute twink foxboi, very cool!
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What's stopping someone from selling all the pieces individually and giving you instructions to put it together?
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Reprap.org
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How many 3D Printed Guns have actually been used in crimes? I guarantee they are doing the Ghost Gun = 3D Printed angle but I almost guarantee like 90% of those guns are 80% Glock or AR kits.
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Snapshots:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Just buy one from Philly.
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Anything to keep Ahmed and Tyrone from making weapons.
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