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Youtube bans 3D print channel after manually reviewing its videos as suitable for monetization [Louis Rossmann explains the censorship]

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Yep, if you're a criminal making ghost guns to commit crimes because you can't pass a background check to buy a gun (and then scratch the serial number off), then it's already a crime for you to have that ghost gun because you're a prohibited person.

Requiring a serial number changes nothing and only affects nerds, not criminals.

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Youtube bans 3D print channel after manually reviewing its videos as suitable for monetization [Louis Rossmann explains the censorship]

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Untraceable for what?

Almost all of them still use metal parts that can be x-rayed and still have barrels that leave ballistic fingerprints on bullets. Serial numbers don't make something GPS-tracked.

Untraceable in terms of ownership? There is no national firearm registry. Guns bought from FFLs require a NICS background check that is stored in an ATF database (of questionable legality), but private sale guns often don't require NICS so the database isn't an accurate registry of gun ownership.

And criminals scratch off serial numbers anyways.

And add on that any laws requiring serialization of privately-made firearms are only affecting nerds, not criminals. Criminals that are making guns because they can't pass a NICS background check will continue not adding serial numbers - because they're criminals.

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What screams "poorly educated"?

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Without sharing too many personal details for privacy reasons, I likely have slightly less higher education than @[email protected]. Based on the info provided alone we aren't far off, but it might be valuable to also look at non-academic experience, what field, or how we compare to others in our field or region. I'm not comfortable sharing these details, so I'm fine with conceding that I have slightly less higher education.

Edit: I'll also add that I don't support namecalling.

Edit2: I want to carify that the topic is poorly educated, and in my opinion the belief that you know more about other people's self interest than they do can come from a place of being poorly educated about those people.