I have to wonder how New York plans to police the entire internet. This would appear to enforce a law that only those who weren’t going to “break” such a law are going to follow anyway.
I have to wonder how New York plans to police the entire internet. This would appear to enforce a law that only those who weren’t going to “break” such a law are going to follow anyway.
Let me be clear: I wasn’t arguing for the law, only explaining how it will be likely used.
Depending on the exact content of the law and the first few precedences in court, what you are doing might or might not qualify.
Since you seem to only make attachments/utilities for commercial guns, it would be likely that that kind of activity is not covered by the law. Your guns are no “ghost guns”, they are commercial guns, legally purchased from a seller, with a registration number and everything. (I guess you purchased them legally.)
The gun is specifically targeting “ghost guns” that are created “at home” without registration numbers and stuff, so I don’t think that applies to you.
But who knows how exactly this is going to be applied.
Banning 3D printers for the purposes of stopping ghost guns is stupid, for the exact reason you named (lathe, mill, welders, …), especially because all of these tools are used for all sorts of stuff and creating guns isn’t their main purpose. The same cannot be said for the design files, no matter whether they are for a 3D printer, CNC machines or just a manual on how to build a gun the conventional way. The purpose of such design files is to create a gun, and that can be made illegal.
Whether it should or whether it would even help to stop ghost guns is another story.