This first bill allows the state of California to regulate and oversee all 3D prints in the name of public safety.

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    This is America, wouldn’t it be easier just to buy a gun? I get that 3D printers can make ghost guns that aren’t traceable but how many crimes have occurred where that is the murder weapon?

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      Agreed. Every time I’ve looked into printing one I look at the process and just buy it. All the ghost guns I’ve made were from hollowed-out 80% lowers. And one time a hardware store slamfire shotgun.

      I fully support one’s right to print a gat, but it sure ain’t for me.

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      Thats the neat part: they can make weapons the same way I can theoretically make a bomb from enriched uranium in my backyard.

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      Not as much as you think. The thing is even in countries with strict gun laws 3D printed firearms are a negligible part of firearm crime.

      This isn’t to say that they don’t exist. I saw images of criminal gun factories in Australia (which have been around well before 3D printing) that had integrated 3D printing into their stuff, but they still do a lot of metal work, too.