Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices
apnews.com
external-link
Justice Department officials are turning to the 3D-printing industry to help stop the proliferation of tiny pieces of plastic transforming semi-automatic weapons into illegal homemade machine guns on streets across America.

They can explore the requirement, but they will get lost during their expedition.

Chahk
link
fedilink
84M

Never stopped them before from still passing half-assed laws.

The Doctor
link
fedilink
English
34M

And those half-assed laws make great pretext laws.

“That guy has a 3d printer! He might be fabbing ghost guns!”

Create a post

This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.


Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.


Rules:

1: All Lemmy rules apply

2: Do not post low effort posts

3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff

4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.

5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)

6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist

7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed

  • 1 user online
  • 24 users / day
  • 153 users / week
  • 447 users / month
  • 2.23K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 3.07K Posts
  • 43.9K Comments
  • Modlog