The death of gun control
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April 25th, 2013 at 9:11 am
Or, more likely, strict control and legislation of 3D printing. I fully expect all 3D print jobs will eventually have to go through the US patent office to determine if there are any sort of patent infringement (or legal issues) before a print job will be cleared. Print jobs would have to fit a standard and if it matches, or closely matches, a restricted job it will not be allowed to proceed. The printers MAC address would also be flagged for further investigation.
So 3D printers would always have to be online in order to print. Older 3D printers, without the “phone home” feature, would be hot commodities in the 3D printing black market.
Of course the US Patent and Trademark Office will need a much bigger staff to handle all of that.
April 25th, 2013 at 12:06 pm
(tongue planted firmly in cheek)
Good idea Kdawg, but better idea: let’s route ALL print jobs through a gubbmint office for approval first. (I’m sure there wouldn’t be any recording of content or anything like that.)
How long to you think it would take the average high school techno-nerd to jumper around something like that? Fifteen, twenty minutes?
Your solution does have lowering the unemployment rate going for it though.
But I’m sure that the more absurd the “solution” to this problem, the more likely is that Frank “Night of the Living Dead” Lautenberg will jump up to sponsor legislation concerning it.
April 25th, 2013 at 1:27 pm
Kdawg: We’ve had CNC mills for years now, even ones that A Human Being Could Buy, Themselves.
(I’m told that these days the bottom-end prices are in the $5-10k range, about twice as much as a half-decent plastic printer.)
They’re also capable of building a gun, and a far sturdier one than a plastic printer can.
And no call for “strict control” of machining.
I think they realize that would never pass muster Constitutionally, as well as not Doing Anything.
Plus it’d be far too easy to get around by simply breaking up the “job” into unrecognizable chunks, so as a purely practical matter it’d never work.
April 25th, 2013 at 2:01 pm
So how exactly are they printing a barrel/chamber? I don’t know of any readily available polymers that will contain that kind of pressure.
April 25th, 2013 at 2:44 pm
“strict control and legislation of 3D printing”
how long before a 3d printer can print a 3d printer?
April 25th, 2013 at 6:04 pm
“how long before a 3d printer can print a 3d printer?”
As I recall, one of the prominent 3D print mavens began doing exactly that. Somewhere in Britain if I remember correctly.
April 25th, 2013 at 8:51 pm
>“how long before a 3d printer can print a 3d printer?”
That’s the whole idea behind the RepRap style of printer. The design is free and open source too! Check it out: Reprap.org
They’re not printing everything yet thought. You still need to buy what is called “vitamins”, nuts and bolts and other things that can’t be made from printed plastic. Something like 60% of it can today be printed from free and open source files.