NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers
NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers
The bill is in early stages in committee.
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
3d printers don’t kill people. People kill people. Or something.
Anyway, this proposed law is nuttier than squirrel poo.
You'd need a metal barrel, receiver and other parts to make a gun that can shoot more than once. Does anyone know if background checks are required in NY for purchasing those items as well? I didn't see it mentioned in the article. If not, then people will just switch to wood or other materials to make their ghost guns and hobbyists are left with an extra tax and inconvenience.
All of those can be made as well. And plenty of people already do.
You're last point hits the nail on the head. What are they going to do, require background checks to shop at Home Depot? There's endless material options and tons of creative people ready to engineer something new.
I find it pretty contradictory that you don't (always) need background checks to buy a gun but you would need them to buy a thing that can make specific parts of them.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A recently-submitted bill in the New York State assembly would require anyone who buys a 3D printer to undergo a criminal background check which could take up to 15 days to complete.
While the goal of bill A8132 seems to be preventing the manufacture of so-called ghost guns — unregistered firearms made at home — it actually would restrict the sale of pretty much any consumer 3D printer in the state.
The law says "For purposes of this section, 'three-dimensional printer' means a computer or computer-driven machine or device capable of producing a three-dimensional object from a digital model."
Imagine walking up to the counter at Micro Center with your new Bambu Lab P1S and being told that you have to fill out a form, show ID and wait for your background check to clear.
Back in May, Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal introduced Bill A7489, which makes it illegal to manufacture ghost guns or to distribute the 3D models for them.
Those laws are also backed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., who framed them as part of "comprehensive anti-gun legistlation."
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