[nickpinkston]

Requiring people to drive to Nevada to buy a real 3DP?

I'm a long time shooter of all kinds of firearms (bolt actions to full-autos).

What people don't realize is that gun control works, but only when it's very controlled - i.e. full registration, deep checks, mandatory training, strict storage, no handguns, etc.

You need to do it across the whole country, as a real customs border can cut guns significantly, but in the US you can do still do a private party (person to person with no dealer) transfer in many states, making gun running pretty trivial.

None of this will happen anytime soon in the US, and the ghost guns, etc. thing will keep happening.

[petsfed]

I've been saying this for years.

Yes, we have a gun violence problem. But notably, we do not have a heavy weapons problem. By and large, gun crimes are committed with guns that can be purchased legally somewhere inside the US.

So if the silver bullet to the gun violence problem is taking away all the guns (please do not misunderstand me, I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT TO BE THE CASE), then step 1 is to limit what guns can be purchased anywhere in the US.

But this whole 3d printer farse reveals something we sort of already knew: if people want to have guns (or have weapons in general), they're going to find a way. If you want to address the gun violence problem, you have to find a way to make people not want to kill, nor own guns, that's unrelated to how difficult/expensive it is to get guns. And you're going have to do that in the shadow of the constitution.

[nickpinkston]

Yea, they never mention that Europe also has way better social safety nets, mental healthcare, etc.

I do think gun control can work, but these kinds of legislation feel like the "paper straw" kind of regulation - ie alienating some people who'd otherwise agree with you on many things.