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The CA law includes all manufacturing machines that take sets of instructions, if I'm not mistaken
You don't even need a CNC machine. Basic hand tools and some pipe are enough to make a zip gun.
A lathe takes no instructions and is potentially the most useful tool of all listed for the purposes of making a gun.