Guns: the porn of 3-d printing

[jmowreader]

Until 3-d printing came along, the proof every technology had "finally arrived" is someone figured out how to produce either a picture of a nude woman or a depiction of two people having sex with it. There are galleries online with naked women people created on Model 19 Teletypes; Mod 19s are so ancient they can't print lowercase characters, but people printed naked women on them.

Now we have 3-d printers...and no one cares about printing nudes on them. The big thing now is trying to build a working handgun. So far it's mostly been the modern equivalent of a zipgun, but today's news brings word of a metal .45 automatic.

Somehow I liked the nudes printed with Baudot characters better. All they killed was your account balance.

[petronius]

1. Maybe, but I suspect that more than one sex doll or sex toy or

erotic figurine came rolling out of a 3D printer pretty darn soon after the tech became available. People haven't changed that much...

[LittleBlue]

2. It will kill gun regulation

Gun laws rely on regulating sales, not fabrication. One could fabricate a gun for himself or his friend, and it probably wouldn't be covered under sale laws.

[Dwayne Hicks]

3. Wrong

It regulates OWNERSHIP not just sales.

[LittleBlue]

4. Right, there are laws to regulate ownership

But these are really restricted due to the 2nd Amendment.

Regulating sales is fair game because it's commerce. It's always been easier to get things like background checks passed than possession bans.

Basically the laws need to be updated to reflect fabrication. Good luck with that.