There is currently a bill in the NY State Assembly to require background checks for the purchase of 3D printers
There is currently a bill in the NY State Assembly to require background checks for the purchase of 3D printers
Requires a criminal history background check for the purchase of a three-dimensional printer capable of creating firearms; prohibits sale to a person who would be disqualified on the basis of criminal history from being granted a license to possess a firearm.
Technically it’s for any printer capable of printing a firearm or the components of a firearm, which is…. every printer. What a bafflingly stupid proposal. If you’re in NY, please call your reps and tell them to oppose this bill.
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Keep in mind that this is a state that bans nunchuks.Never mind, NY banned nunchuks in 1974 but then in 2018 a federal court decided that New Yorkers have a 2nd amendment right to nunchuks.
Maybe there's a constitutional right to keep and bear 3D printers too? If your life is in danger, you can use the concealed printer you're carrying to make a gun and then defend yourself with that gun.
Don't worry, my state considers throwing stars to be "assault weapons" now and their sale and possession is banned. There's still stupidity abound if you care to look hard enough.
their sale and possession is banned
How will I assassinate the Shogun now?!
You'll have to use your blowgun. Those are still unregulated.
You jest but automated blowguns with face recognition could be deadly and nearly impossible to spot!
Way ahead of you. Ever load a thumbtack into a piece of 5/16" brake line and give it a puff with your air compressor?
Don't ask me how but the fuckers remain straight in flight. They're cylindrical enough that you could surely make such an apparatus magazine fed.
If you have the compressor, wouldn't it be easier to just use a nail gun with the sensor on the tip disabled?
Not much range on a nailgun. The nails tumble in flight in quite a short distance.
You could probably easily add some fletching to them and maybe a little bit of a barrel to the nail gun to get a little extra muzzle velocity.
Not without breaking the nails off of their strip, at which point you're redesigning the feed mechanism, and at that rate you may as well start from scratch.
Nailguns don't work in the manner like I predict you're thinking of -- you can't add a barrel to one since the nail itself is not fired via the compressed air as a projectile. The air drives a piston which strikes the nail exactly like a hammer. The energy is imparted in the nail in that impact and that's all you get. Adding additional barrel length will not increase the velocity in any way. It may just at the outside increase the flight stability of the projectile very slightly, but nailgun nails aren't very well balanced, they're surprisingly inconsistent, and they're usually not very straight to begin with either.
I used to manage a hardware store. Trust me, myself and my crew have/had a lot of experience with trying to weaponize various tools, parts, and equipment. Boredom on a slow Sunday afternoon will do that for you...
If I recall correctly the ones on the plastic coil can be put back on the coil. I definitely misremembered how nail guns work, it's probably been a decade since I used one with any regularity, and I have made a handful of compressed air blowguns.
the right to bear nunchuks is either something bears would want or something animal rights activists would be strongly against