There is currently a bill in the NY State Assembly to require background checks for the purchase of 3D printers - eviltoast

Technically it’s for any printer capable of printing a firearm or the components of a firearm, which is…. every printer. What a bafflingly stupid proposal. If you’re in NY, please call your reps and tell them to oppose this bill.

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        You can fuck someone up real good with a 2X4 ( pronounced two be fore ). Yet I haven’t had to pay for a 2x4 ownership license.

        You can also really fuck someone up with a big bag of shit…be it actual shit or rocks or concrete or just a bunch of shit from Good will (which could included actual shit). Where do we apply for big bags of shit at the DMB?

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        and then they use that info to perform a credit check to ensure you’re not a “risk” to let into the store

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          Kinda odd and you can see it in my comments, but yesterday I made a Lynch reference.

          Then I talk about David Fincher, but since I always mix those two Davids up I was very consciously not typing Lynch later.

          That was all before news went public so needless to say he was on my mind a lot of yesterday. Very Lynchian.

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            “I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange“

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        Yeah, a dude actually made a ton of money during a gun buyback, by making cheap pipe guns. The buyback program had a flat amount as the bare minimum, meant to entice people to turn their firearms in. It was like $200 minimum. He made dozens of $5 single-shot pipe guns, and turned them all in. And since they were technically functioning firearms, the program was forced to pay out.

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          LOL, and I got downvoted for saying the gun buybacks are stupid. People turn in crappy/broken guns for money to buy a better gun. Hell, I have 3 or 4 I’d ditch. Maybe more if you offered me $200 each.