Message from @pd
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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
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