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More posturing by SJWs who think their opinion is important. The plans have been out for a while now and we hardly need FB's help to find them. Alternatively, we can go to an actual dealer and get blanks to make our own non-novelty gun.

please just stop, you really have no input into this argument because you are not in the US nor do you understand manufacturing.

"but also for said person to be a skilled machinist"

https://www.80percentarms.com/...

you do not need to be a skilled machinist to use any of these jigs, in fact you don't need that much machining knowledge at all. Sure it might take you a couple tries to get one to reliably work but anyone who has used a 3d printer knows that it takes several tries to get the calibration right and to reliably print any object at all.

"The way to fight 3D-printed guns is probably just to restrict and monitor the sale of printers and filament for/capable of making critical components similarly to how the chemicals and tools necessary for making hard drugs are controlled. That and having the printers add naked-eye invisible fingerprints to printed items similarly to how (paper) printers do."

There is no way to fight 3d printed guns just like there is no way to fight zip guns as anyone can go to a hardware store and get the supplies needed for a zip gun. The only thing that the government can do is make it illegal to make one, creating another charge against any person who uses it in a crime.

You also dont understand 3d printers very well as most of them are designed to use common hardware and have the rest of the parts printed(thus you cant really control the sale of 3d printers). The 3d printing community is one for the makers and by the makers. There is open source control boards and electronics (there goes your idea of fingerprints) as well as ways to recycle some of the kinds of filaments (there goes your control of filament).

Also the chemicals for making hard drugs are not really that controlled (as evidenced by the amount of hard drugs in every nation, that and the big ones cocaine, opium and meth don't really require any specialty chemicals or tools to make). The tools for making them are not controlled at all as most of the tools required can usually come from a hardware or science store. when you combine that with your statement:
"With this, all that's required is someone to have access to a suitable 3D printer, maybe after hours or during weekends at a business with a legitimate use for said printer. "
By your logic we should ban chemistry books because anyone who works at a lab could create drugs or a bomb after hours.

What kills me the most is that obesity and heart disease kill more people than 3d printed guns ever will but you never see politicians trying to legislate sugary drinks.... Instead they dream up triggering crap like this which has people so worked up over a statistical nothing burger, mostly because things like this help the politicians to better control the citizens in the long run, just like making the citizens fat and lazy does. This is political theater just to make it look like politicians and lawyers actually do something (whether it is good for society or not is a whole other debate).

What do you think things like https://www.80percentarms.com/... is?
It looks like a bolt carrier assembly (including bolt) to me.

You can buy something like https://www.80percentarms.com/... plus one of their jigs and make a working AR-15 from it just by using the jig to complete the remaining 20% of the 80% lower included in the kit.

What do you think things like https://www.80percentarms.com/... is?
It looks like a bolt carrier assembly (including bolt) to me.

You can buy something like https://www.80percentarms.com/... plus one of their jigs and make a working AR-15 from it just by using the jig to complete the remaining 20% of the 80% lower included in the kit.

When you have companies like https://www.80percentarms.com/ selling AR-15 kits, 80% lowers and jigs that don't require any expert machinist knowledge and which can produce guns that are far superior to anything you can make even with the highest quality 3d printer currently available, I dont see anything to suggest 3d printing somehow makes it easier for people to get guns. (or for bad guys to get guns).

Yes.

See section below regarding California DOJ

https://www.80percentarms.com/...