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Gun control 'experts' want it illegal to buy a 3d printer in Australia, unless it has software blocking firearm printing (web.archive.org)

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All Australian states and territories ban 3D guns, but only some jurisdictions like New South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania make it an offence to possess blueprints.

Experts are calling for retailers to play a greater role in choking the supply of 3D-printed guns in the wake of the Bondi shooting

Gun control groups are pushing for more laws that ban the importation of 3D printers if they do not have pre-installed software blocking firearm parts from being manufactured

Retailers offering 3D printers or 3D printing services would report customers suspected of building 3D-printed guns to the authorities under fresh calls for corporate Australia to play a role in thwarting access to the deadly weapons

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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think being obsessed about limiting firearms should be grounds for immediate imprisonment of that politician and any private interest who ever spoke to said politician about them. Every government should be one bad-day away from being overthrown by an armed citizenry, so that the politicians who pursue these jobs for selfish reasons are reminded what their purpose is.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In the last 30 years the US has lost 1.5 million people to gun violence. That is more than every single war we have ever fought combined. Almost everyone in the US knows someone who has been shot and killed.

Most countries don't want to replicate this insanity hence common sense gun policy.

The overthrow your government thing is just a marketing technique to get people to buy guns. Looks like it works great for you.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

The 3d printed gun fear mongering is the opposite of "common sense gun control" though. It's like tryign to mandate government backdoors for encryption, it's intellectually bankrupt and the politicians and lobbyists who push for that crap shouldn't be allowed to live on their own, let alone run a government.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

Because that "overthrown by an armed citizenry" policy worked so great for America.

The only people who would use guns to overthrow their government are psychopaths. The army needs to recruit impressionable teenagers and then indoctrinate them into a cult in order to form a fighting force, and a resistance doesn't have that infrastructure. If such a left-wing resistance did exist, they would make for a terrible government after the fact because they'd all be psychopaths.

To be clear, I'm not saying overthrowing a fascist government by force is psychopathic, just that only psychopaths would be willing to pull the trigger.