@TomAoki
"Anything I don't understand is therefore easy to do."
-- Pointy Haired Boss from Dilbert

It's a midterm election year. Politicians want to show themselves as being proactive and forward thinking (or get voted out). California is on a quest to plumb the depths of human stupidity. Sadly, they set the standard for other blue states.

Another example is the law they are about to pass that makes all 3D printers, CNC milling machines, and other automated manufacturing tools illegal (and their owners criminals) unless they can detect if a firearm or firearm part is being printed/manufactured and block it at the device. All these devices (if you are not familiar with them) share one thing in common: they process files called gcode which is a series of X & Y coordinates and commands add or subtract material (depending on the device). The device cannot tell the difference between a firing pin, toilet seat cover, or a slinky dragon. The law wants all files to be sent to an AI for permission to print. On a device you own. It's political overreach at its finest since it is being pitched to eliminate "ghost guns" (unserialized weapons) and "protect the children". For the record, ghost guns are not undetectable or invisible to metal detectors. That is utter BS. Sure, you can print a fully plastic gun with all of the moving parts, but if you put a bullet in there and the plastic firing pin manages to activate the round, you will be lucky if the shrapnel kills you. "Ghost" guns have no serial number on the lower (the part with the grip) and cannot be traced back to the owner. Manufacturing guns for personal use is not illegal in the US. Selling or giving them away is. You can't even will them to your children. Any gun you make during your lifetime has to be destroyed when you pass. You can't even have them buried with you as someone might dig them out.

Selling ghost guns is already illegal nationwide. Out of every 100 ghost guns confiscated, 1 might have a 3d printed part. What this is actually doing plays into the surveillance state setup that age attestation started. To make matters worse, they slipped the ghost gun thing into a budget bill and refused to approved the budget unless the ghost gun bit went with it. When a law affects as many people as this does, the people should have to vote on it. This stuff is being pushed by Left Wing Super PACs as they were the one's making joyous press releases when the law passed somewhere.

I will stop now.

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