WorldWatcher
Gold Member
Technically speaking, I don't think the legislation is attempting to ban 3D printers, it's going to attempt to ban using 3D printers to make a firearm. Two different things. If you are using a 3D printer to prototype a widget, not a problem. If you are using a 3D printer to make a firearm, that would be illegal.
You are correct. However, I think the point is that those persons who would use a 3D printer to produce a gun for use in the real world would not be dissuaded by such a law and enforcement of the prohibition would be quite impossible. The guns being produced by this technology are of an extremely low quality which would be nothing but a curiousity... so long as normal firearms are reasonably available.
I don't disagree, I was just pointing out that some were playing like it was the printers that were going to be made illegal, it wasn't it was the product of the print job that is the subject of the law.
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