If someone with a fairly good life does it, what do you think someone capitalism and greed has driven to desperation might do now that we've seen how wildly effective it is? - eviltoast
  • Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
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    5 天前

    So, totally unrelated, but like hypothetically, how illegal would it be to start printing guns and giving them to people with terminal illnesses who were denied coverage? No reason in particular

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      You can’t manufacture a gun for somebody else unless you’re a registered gun manufacturer. You can only make one for yourself. You can hypothetically sell/give a printed gun to someone if when you made it you didn’t intend on selling or distributing it, however many states require you to transfer that firearm via a dealer.

      You would have to give/loan your cancer patient a 3d printer and maybe suggest a URL. They would have to construct the firearm themselves without help.

        • Nougat@fedia.io
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          Sure you can. Nobody is going to stop you. Law enforcement will show up after to push brooms around and take notes, but you will already have achieved your goal.

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        You worry about the legality of printing a gun when you want to give it to someone to use for murder?

          • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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            Commit one crime at a time. Trying to break this is what has gotten many big fish.

            Remember, they picked up Capone on tax evasion.

            • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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              Indeed, don’t be the dumbass who gets caught trying to hide a body because you got pulled over for speeding.

        • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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          Organized crime worries about legal issues all the time, and their whole purpose is crime.

          Limiting liability, and plausible deniability, is a cornerstone of literally getting away with murder.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            Eh. Aligning your organization with a patron politician or police organization is how you get away with murder.

            The Italian and Jewish Mafias of the 1960s were paramilitary wings of the anti-Communist movement. Once Communism was officially squashed in the 90s, they got rolled up quick.

      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 天前

        What about pieces of a gun?

        What if five people printed five different parts and traded them?

        What if the pieces have multiple purposes, only one of which is part of the assembly of a gun?

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        That’s not how 3DP2A works. The “thing” that has to be registered is the polymer frame (on a semiautomatic handgun). That polymer frame is at least what gets printed. So if you’re printing a handgun, there’s no registerable purchase.