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.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I do some amateur gunsmithing. The insides of a bog standard, single-shot 12-gauge blow my mind. As to how the internals work on my S&W Ez? No clue and I wouldn’t dare try a full tear down.

    Do you know how many hours I’ve spent hunting springs in my carpet?!

    You’ve got it exactly right. If you can print the receiver, you can get every tiny part off eBay.

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      Pipe guns exist, you can build a device that fires a 12-gauge shell in a decent garage workshop. The fancy bits, like a break action that closes properly or a spring to eject spent shells/cartridges, are where the fiddly springs and such come into play. (Of course you know this, but for the sake of conversation.)

      Those homemade submachine guns are properly crazy though.