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"might stop anyone from 3D printing guns"
I can guarantee you that it won't even do that.
It absolutely won't do that. You know how many millions of early generation Prusa and Ender 3 printers are in the US? Many of these models have no internet connectivity whatsoever and print from SD card.
What that means is they will also try to incorporate spyware into your CAD and/or slicer software, which is even more invasive.
This is a anti-privacy bill.
It absolutely will not stop some people. But those are not the ones committing gun crimes
It's like making a normal printer that's mandated by the government to never print dicks