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.
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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
If I'm not mistaken, this DOES cover ALL manufacturing devices, and if it doesn't, it will in the future
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.
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
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.
Shovel AK is a thing too. There are stencils out there for it.
Gah how can I forget about the shovel AK????
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.
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.
Everyone unplug from the internet?
Bingo, back to the SneakerNet.
blows dust off classic Fellowes floppy disk caddy
"Gimme some sugar, baby!"
You can still connect it to your LAN without giving it internet access.
Or I don't and I have no worries as I trust NOTHING.
I know that a Samsung teevee disconnected from the internet will try and use another appliances internet connection if it can. Gotta imagine this is possible in other devices, too.
Last year I started maintaining a MAC address whitelist on the router: if I haven't added it, it doesn't get in or go out. No way in hell I'm putting any household appliance on the allowed list. While an appliance could technically still try to access via an allowed device, they're all phones and tablets and computers with slightly more robust security than the trust me bro levels of an IoT appliance.
Its a felony, we need RF jammers.
/RF engineer.
I don't really get it other than changing its convenience and efficiency. Superglue and wall loops make stronger parts of multiple pieces than priting it all in one.