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.
You're viewing a single thread.
Gonna require background checks to get plumbing supplies or to go to the hardware store? Cause I can make a gun a hell of a lot easier and quicker with that shit, than I can with a 3d fuckin printer.
It's those rock tumbler crazies of the world.
Oi. You got a permit to tumble that aluminum foil?
Don't you dare try it!
Lol that describes my childhood
Did you use chlorates, saltpeter, or potassium permanganate?
None. I combined it with iron oxide. I like chemistry, not explosives
IIRC hardware store employees do pay attention to purchases that look like that and have phone numbers to call for it
You think those employees are paid enough to care?
Nope! But i bet management cares enough about it (or at least not being "that store that sold a shooter gun parts") to make it painful if they dont.
You can buy from multiple stores and mix in a bunch of other stuff to make it hard for someone to figure out what you're building.
Or just go to self checkout
The Home Depot near my house recently went exclusively self checkout. I hate it, makes me consider driving an extra 15 min to go to Menard's or Lowes.
Embrace, use it as an opportunity to shoplift. Home depot is run by an asshole anyway.
Pfft.
I used to run a hardware store. We saw people assembling parts to build zip guns, potato cannons, pipe bombs, bongs, and other similarly related naughty projects all the time. You want to know what I did about it? I told them to let me know how it turned out.
Some boob from the ATF actually came by and tried to grill me real hard about ammonium nitrate at one point shortly after 9/11, and I had to tell him the same thing over and over again phrased many different ways until he finally got it, which was that we don't sell any fertilizer other than prepackaged blended consumer products, i.e. we did not sell any pure nitrates to anyone because we could not, because we didn't bother to carry them. End of discussion.
There was still plenty of crap available on my shelves to make a quite competent bomb if you knew what you were doing. But I didn't go into detail and I sure as shit wasn't going to go around teaching anyone.
Na the hardware store guys are chill