On 01/31/2013 10:10 AM, tuinkabouter wrote:
On 1/30/2013 11:42 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
I'd guess that NY State will ban 3D printers...

http://tinyurl.com/azk5no7

Now you need a license for the lower receive.
I think there will be more licenses for gun part.

Besides that publishing of 3D ready gun models will be prohibited.

There's a practical plan--look how well it worked for the music industry.


3D printing service companies will get fines if they print gun parts.
The owner of the 3D printer will be liable for damages imposed by there
products.

Good luck with that one too. It's not like you can run a ballistics
test on a plastic magazine, and 3D printers go out of adjustment so fast
that it's really unlikely you could identify the individual machine the
way Ellery Queen et al. used to do with typewriters.

Anyway, you take a USB key down to your local hackerspace, and print
whatever you like. What are they going to do, post sentries?

The problem is people who have lost the will to live, and don't fear the
consequences because they aren't going to leave the scene alive anyway,
and don't believe in an afterlife. Even if there were no semiautomatic
weapons, anyone can make a pipe bomb. This is not a uniquely American
or even modern phenomenon--not just suicide bombers and anarchists. The
Jewish-Roman historian Josephus records that King Herod the Great was so
concerned to prevent public rejoicing over his death that he ordered a
mass execution of prominent citizens to take place upon his demise.
(Fortunately this order was not carried out.)

A flurry of ill-advised lawmaking and outbursts of hatred at perceived
political enemies will not help. Life is dangerous, and ultimately fatal.

I share the deep desire that such things as Newtown should never happen,
but we live in a fallen world, and we ourselves are all evil at some
level. We can't fix that by even the wisest laws, or by our own moral
effort, though we should work for wise laws and strive to treat others
better. (Try obeying your conscience _exactly_ for a month, and you'll
see what I mean. It's impossible.)

That's the bad news that makes the Good News good.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

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