A proposed New York State law would require fingerprints and a background check before a person could purchase a 3D printer because of fears of 3D-printed firearms.
The bill, AB A8132, would require anyone purchasing a 3D printer capable of printing a firearm or firearm parts to submit fingerprints and be submitted to the Division of Criminal Justice Services for a criminal background check. Anyone who is prohibited from owning firearms would not be allowed to buy a 3D printer. Although the proposed law specifically mentions only regulating 3D printers and computers capable of printing guns and gun parts, all 3D printers can produce these items.
This means anyone with a criminal record will be prevented from buying a 3D printer in the Empire State.
“Sale of certain three-dimensional printers. 1. Any retailer of a three-dimensional printer sold in this state which is capable of printing a firearm, or any components of a firearm, is required and authorized to request and receive criminal history information concerning such purchaser from the Division of Criminal Justice Services in accordance with the provisions of Section Eight Hundred Forty-Five-B of the executive law. Access to and the use of such information shall be governed by the provisions of such section. The division of criminal justice services is authorized to submit fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history record check,” the bill reads.
The bill also gives the Division of Criminal Justice Services 15 days to perform a background check and approve the sale of the 3D printer.
This time delay will effectively add a waiting period to buying a 3D printer. It also will affect mail-order printers since most devices are not sold through brick-and-mortar retailers. The vast majority of printers are sold via the internet. Only a few retail stores, like Micro Center, carry 3D printers. Most buyers purchase their devices directly from the manufacturers or sites like Amazon.
“Within fifteen business days after receiving a request for criminal history information pursuant to this section, the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services shall review such criminal history information and determine whether such purchaser has been convicted anywhere of a felony or a serious offense or who is not the subject of an outstanding warrant of arrest issued upon the alleged commission of a felony or serious offense which would disqualify such individual from being licensed to carry or possess a firearm,” the bill reads.
Even though this law targets the 3D printing of firearms, it will affect anyone trying to buy a 3D printer.
People using 3D printers to print firearms are in the extreme minority of makers. Most people use 3D printers to print household objects and trinkets. Schools use 3D printers to teach students about engineering and design. A 3D printer lets these students prototype and test their designs quickly.
Architecture firms use 3D printers to produce models and showcase their designs. Colleges have rooms filled with 3D printers, and almost all libraries now have maker’s rooms with the machines. None of these uses involve firearms, yet these devices will be regulated like guns. It also disadvantages people with a criminal past trying to turn around their lives by removing the opportunity to use an emerging technology.
This bill shows a misunderstanding of the technology. The bill’s author does not understand 3D printing and all its uses. If this bill passes, it will have rippling effects past the firearms world.
NY Lawmakers Want Background Checks & Waiting Periods for 3D Printers – A8132
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And then, if they get this, OFC they will need to have it apply everywhere, so that people can’t bring said printer(s) back from another state. Which will create a black market for smuggled printers. Plus a 3D printer can be printed by other 3D printers! So it would have to devolve into a worldwide ban on plastic, or something equally nonsensical. This road only ends up in the “ban everything” idea that the insane typically revert to, rather than wake up to the fact that inanimate objects do not have wills of their own. As crazy as that is,… Read more »
Just another case of unhinged Democrats trying to create a crises when there is none , to take rights away from lawbiding citizens
Where does NY’s lunacy end? If this goes through, 3-D printer supplies (printer filament, adhesive glue and glass plates) will be considered “ammunition” for these printers and regulated as well. NY politicians must be pre-selected from a defective gene pool to account for the absolute stupidity of their actions. Vote ’em OUT!
Where does it end? It ends with NY’s government requiring an annual license to exhale. The Department of CO2 emissions will have 15 days to complete a background check for conservative tendencies before issuing the permit. In the mean time I predict that within 3 years NY will require a physician’s permission, maybe even a prescription, before you can buy red meat and another 6 months before all meat is restricted.
Just another reason for NY residents to go shopping out of state. Spread the pain out a little bit more, so that non-gun-owners in the state, who vote for these democrat marxists, can experience the some of the joy that gun-owners have to deal with.
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I’m not questioning your honesty, but in many years here, and thousands of comments, I’ve never seen that happen. Could you perhaps reword your nice input, with thought towards mentioning links instead of directly posting them, or using profanity like “F*&^%*n Batf”, that the bots can’t figure out, and so forth? It might help those of us trying to figure out the techneques used by the antiprogs to suppress us. As it is, having no specifics, it can only be regarded as an unfounded accusation. If you could get even one sentence around it somehow, that would build a foundation… Read more »
I’ve been on here 8-9 years and never used profanity or those words you say. Your in Management at Ammoland? What is your job on Ammoland?
I don’t work for ammoland. I’m just interested in unraveling how the censorbots ‘think’.
How about background checks for a permit to commit a crime?
What is next, background check and wait time for CNC milling machine,
for reloading manuals at the public library?
The glorious Peoples Republik of Kommiefornia has already outlawed CNC machines that are “primarily” intended to make firearms components unless you’re a licensed manufacturer. We all know that law was aimed squarely at the “Ghost Gunner” desktop machine (as if an actual manufacturer would use one).
It’s only a matter of time before our esteemed lawmakers call for licensing and registration of all machines and probably that they be internet connected and monitored.
F ny !!!
OMG that is so stupid. More laws that only the law abiding will follow. 3D printers are so prevalent and available this makes no sense. Literally, they can buy them online and print more of them. Creating an entirely new revenue stream for the black market which generally doesn’t follow laws or worry about penalties.
Drastic action is important. Some liberal might get shot.
Some liberal is always getting shot in the inner city Democrat shitholes. I have a buddy who is a NJ detective in a large town – he’s never even seen an 80% lower handgun some in (let alone a 3D printed one), less than 120 were confiscated from 2019 to 2021 in the entire state over a 2 year period. They really need to stop this insanity before something bad happens to these elected officials.
One wonders if an Ender3 Pro v2, which comes partially assembled, counts as an “80% Printer”
😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV1Nnohwqik
Or, if they ban those, you could make your own from scratch using mail order hardware.
From mild:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX62plOF-So
To wild:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qub5chyIQ0s
In a recently released movie, a well known liberal comedian interviews Senator Pryor who states that there is no IQ test for being in the U. S. Senate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTSCRoYyM-Y
Apparently, you don’t even have to be as smart as Sen. Pryor to be elected in New York.
What BS. So are we going to require machine shops that have CNC machines and all of it’s employees to have background checks before they can work there? Ridiculous. We need to clean out the moron’s and put real people in charge that have common sense and a brain that recognizes people’s rights and when they are trying to do something that is unconstitutional. Crazy is as crazy does.
Another fine example of only the best and brightest in government.
You can’t legislate evil, only punish everyone because of it.
There is a word for that insanity in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illnesses. It’s called; “projection”. The desire to punish others for one’s own failings. Unfortunately, in today’s world, a great many people, and almost every burrocrat, have acute cases.
we used to call people like them retarded ,because they were mentally deficient….now the cooks are running the asylum
Yup. That’s about the size of it all right. But until that 10-20%(critical mass) of the people wake up and look around at what’s been done to them while they were playing with their screens, about all we aware ones can do is arm up, and carry on. I think that’s probably why we see so many using that as their sign off.
Next will be the ban on electricity and the registration of any space you may have in your home where one of these evil 3D printers might fit.
Americans, the Biggest idiots on the planet. They shouldn’t be allowed to breathe air. I pray that China nukes the living hell out of them.