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Gun control 'experts' want it illegal to buy a 3d printer in Australia, unless it has software blocking firearm printing (web.archive.org)
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All Australian states and territories ban 3D guns, but only some jurisdictions like New South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania make it an offence to possess blueprints.

Experts are calling for retailers to play a greater role in choking the supply of 3D-printed guns in the wake of the Bondi shooting

Gun control groups are pushing for more laws that ban the importation of 3D printers if they do not have pre-installed software blocking firearm parts from being manufactured

Retailers offering 3D printers or 3D printing services would report customers suspected of building 3D-printed guns to the authorities under fresh calls for corporate Australia to play a role in thwarting access to the deadly weapons

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[–] 30 points 6 months ago (5 children)

How would a 3d printer know if its a firearm?

Next up normal ink printers are not allowed to print bad jokes

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The only way I see is through permanent surveillance. Otherwise there's probably an infinity of ways to cut up a plastic gun that would fool a machine

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Especially regarding the similarity in shape to toy guns and gun shaped tools.

    My best guess is they would require them to be online and sending copies or screen grabs to a central server where the goobermint could find it after a crime has been done. Or maybe you could shorten the list with AI and then have some poor shlub temp worker going through that list and tagging the incriminating entries. Not that they would do that that often. Not any more often than a county property tax office would go through google maps and identify over sized sheds that aren't getting taxed.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Two ways. The first is to dramatically increase the price due to added computing power because the device would make the determination itself with a matching database. This is probably not realistic.

    The second way would be an always Internet connected device that checks your prints against an online database. This would be more practical and companies would probably love the idea of being able to spy on whatever you print.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Fortunately for the second scenario, I think avoiding that might be as easy as going into blender, adding a pointless protrusion or two and then renaming the file

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I think there are some printers that refuse to print pictures of currency.

    Either way, having picked up an Ender 3 back in the day that is completely offline sounds better and better everyday.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I think there are some printers that refuse to print pictures of currency.

    For currency that was a specific feature built into the currency itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

    Guns/Weapons cannot have such a thing built into them as they are non-functional elements that can easily be omitted in whatever design you print. And since General AI isn't real, you can't expect any system to recognize if you are tryign to print a weapon. Honestly this is the same kind of intellectual bankruptcy that backs anti-cryptography bills.

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