oh 100%

Hit 'Print', come back 30 hours later to all your parts printed out

yep

Run to the hardware store to get a pipe and some nails, boom

3d printing makes it impossible to eradicate gun production

you could shut down major mills

that make the lowers or whatever it is that's a legal part to sell/distribute

but you couldn't possibly shut down home appliances

if you shut down the majority of the manufacturers making gun parts, that's basically it

it takes a lot of knowledge, skill, and money to do that sort of thing and the average person will not be able to do it themselves

but a home appliance that can make virtually any object can't be banned, functionally

It'll eventually come down to 3D printer companies implementing some form of DRM to prevent printing anything that trips the "firearm part" trigger

true

Either DRM hardcoded into the machines or software DRM

but i think the cat is out of the bag and though they could slow it down slightly, they coudln't possibly extinguish it

every step they take now can easily be circumvented the next day

govt mandates drm? hackers find a way around it

so the govt takes additional steps and so on

cat and mouse

i think the reason it's so pervasive is because it's just an idea

3d printers are just a cnc hot glue gun

at least fdm ones

but that's all u need

Yeah all you really need is a polymer chassis to mount the metal hardware store parts inside

All you really need is a chamber, barrel, recoil spring and bolt

which are mass manufactured for super cheap

and needed for every industry

What’s the most complicated part of a 3D printer

Once they realize they cant stop the printing of new firearms they're gonna go after ammo

The nozzle?

the brain

Probably yeah

the programming is probably the most complicated

otherwise it's just 6 directions

directional commands + some on/off stuff more or less

but converting data into a path is pretty hard

if you had to start from scratch there, it'd take a while

nozzles are really important but that's mostly refinement

Someone print me a gun

afaik cnc programming took a few strokes of genius to become efficient

at least contoured 3d stuff