US Supreme Court upholds rules curtailing access to ghost guns
The US Supreme Court has upheld a major gun control policy enacted by the Biden administration to regulate so-called ghost guns - largely untraceable firearms that can be assembled at home using kits.
The rules require manufacturers to include serial numbers on the kits and to perform background checks on those who purchased them.
Advocacy groups have called ghost guns the fastest-growing gun safety problem in America, with the numbers of such guns recovered from crime scenes rising by more than 1,000% since 2017.
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In the age of cheap, accessible, and actually fairly good 3d printers this law is basically moot.
I'm so fucking tired of this red herring. You cannot make a functional, reliable, and deadly firearm using a 3D printer without access to additional materials and processes. You may as well outlaw steel pipe under the same logic. Meanwhile, this law concerns kits that can be used to assemble a working firearm in less than an hour. 3D printing a gun is a fucking stupid idea that is nothing more than a bad faith argument to distract from legislation that actually has a chance to reduce violence. If you actually care about gun control, focus on the real issues, not made up ones.
You don't even need to print a full gun. In the US the lower is typically what's considered the firearm. The upper has almost no restrictions on them in comparison.
Right now I could fire up my 3d printer print out a complete Glock 17 lower, clean it up a bit, then slide on a glock 17 upper and have an actually fairly reliable gun that will withstand lots of rounds. There's frames designed to take metal inserts which aren't hard to do, and now assuming you've done it right is almost exactly as good as buying the actual thing.
True, but any regulation helps