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New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer (gizmodo.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Anonymouse@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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I understand the intent, but feel that there are so many other loopholes that put much worse weapons on the street than a printer. Besides, my prints can barely sustain normal use, much less a bullet being fired from them. I would think that this is more of a risk to the person holding the gun than who it's pointing at.

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[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

It's all CNC. All the way down. Always was.

Seriously, 3d printers are just CNC machines, they use the same code the mill I use that was built in 1989 uses.

[-] ezures@lemmy.wtf 5 points 2 years ago

Yes, they added some new g codes for the extruder bit (even that is just used as an axis), but otherwise you could hand code a 3d print. Probably not a good idea, but could be done. CNC is cool

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