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You can buy whole kits to build your own, the capacity to control what is made with the is about as much as if you tried to ban someone with a table saw from building a birdhouse.
tried to ban someone with a table saw from building a birdhouse.
Thats a perfectly succinct analogy.
Pretty sure you could make a gun too, which is the point of this 3D printer thing
And like what about other CNC machines?
I like that California is on the frontier of many tech laws, but this and the age thing are particularly dumb lately
I made an AR15 with a hobby drill press from Lowes at work. Give me a hunk of metal, a micrometer and a file and I can make you a gun.
Or worse.
I'm pretty sure that's already illegal in CA
I think at this point it easier to list what isn't illegal in California.
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Neat, I would've assumed you'd need a mill or a lathe, not just a drill press. Kinda want to know how to do it myself, since I own the former but not either of the latter.
The upper reciever is the load bearing part on an Armalite, but it's also not the regulated part. The lower receiver is, and all you need for that is a box that holds the trigger components in vaguely the right place, a hole that lines up the magazine, a hole to stick the buffer tube into at the back, and some way to nail the upper receiver to it.
You could carve an AR lower out of wood if you were dedicated enough.
Guess I ought to go find a set of machining schematics.
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It won't be accurate or be a long baller w/o a lathe to make a rifled barrel. Not that you couldn't mke a barrel with hand tools, it just would be very difficult.
And like others have said, only the lower receiver is the controlled item. You goto Brownels and can buy 98% of an AR w/o a background check.
Shovel AK is a thing too. There are stencils out there for it.
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Nobody tell California about a nail combined with certain diameters of pipe, because guess what, those can become guns too.
zip guns, lets bring in slam fired shotguns.
Never doubt the ingenuity of man killing other men.
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And that is illegal and you'll rightly spend a lot of time in jail for doing that, shit you can go to prison for suggesting it.
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If I'm not mistaken, this DOES cover ALL manufacturing devices, and if it doesn't, it will in the future
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Yeah I’ve lived in CA for about 10 years now and have loved it, but the new laws they are passing are making it extremely likely that I’ll be moving soon. Especially with tje fact that we are either getting either Becerra who’s in Big AI and Big Oils pocket.
Oh nothing to worry about then? Fuck you, we need to fight back against every infringement of our rights, it has nothing to do with how effective the law will be but that the law is WRONG.
Jesus christ when will we stop doing this?
Or just go to a bordering state, buy one, and come back
Printer manufacturers won't make state-specific versions of printers. This is going to screw all of us.
Printer manufacturers won't make state-specific versions of printers.
Likely not even country specific ones.
This is going to screw all of us.
This is the USA screwing the world (again)
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You cannot put DRM in stepper motors. This law is dumb.
Hey now, don't give them any ideas... Next thing you know all stepper motors will require daily inspection before use by a robocop placed in every home.
Can't stop those 3D printer pens, either. Someone could one day be literal when they say they are gonna draw a weapon.
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