The overhang on that snake’s head and the tail’s end not even touching the build plate is borderline impossible, also yellow and black yet only showing a printer that has one yellow roll and we think that the machine can’t swap filaments either. So unrealistic :P
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
221 points (96.2% liked)
Technology
86145 readers
3858 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
How big of a problem is this even? I've only heard one case of someone using a ghost gun in a murder and that didn't stop the police from finding the suspect.
Guns are extremely simple devices. It's not something you can solve with 3d printing legislation... It's just people giving lip service to gun control IMO.
If you know how to 3d print a gun, you can easily find out how to make a zip gun with a bit of pipe, the kind you'd probably need to 3d print a "ghost gun" regardless.
Like ffs I saw a YouTube video or a dude getting two pieces of pipe, closing one end and putting a nail in it, then making a one shot shotgun out of cheap fucking material. You just need closed space and to hit the end of the fucking bullet. Guns are not magic. They're simple as fuck, and hard to regulate partially because of how simple they are.
These laws are probably more for surveillance than preventing ghost guns.
https://armamentresearch.com/luty-sub-machine-guns-past-present-future/
Famous examples that don't use 3d printing, the Luty guns he made as a crypto anarchist psycho trying to disseminate open source plans lol. The knowledge is very easily accessible.
These laws are probably more for surveillance than preventing ghost guns.
They are, 100%. Watch Louis Rossman 's video on the New York law (if you can stomach his vlogs for that long) - it's had a shitload of money dumped into lobbying for it by none other than overly controlling industrialist Michael Bloomberg himself. They are trying to crush user ownership of manufacturing right off the bat.
And this is basically how former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was assassinated
Restrict access to vinyl tape!
It's not just gun control.
It's control of information and surveillance of every bit of data and every part printed for any reason.
It's not even just surveillance! It is destruction of property rights generally, including the right to repair and the ability for individuals to own their means of production.
Not a major problem AND going after 3D printing doesn't actually solve the problem - the core components that make a gun a gun, such as the barrel, firing pin, etc., still need to be manufactured in the "traditional" way (unless you're trying to make a single use, one shot gun, but even that has better alternatives than 3D printing).
As it's been pointed out above, the pieces of equipment - lathes, mills, CNC machines - required to make the aforementioned parts require no licencing, no safety mechanisms to prevent gun part manufacturing.
The CA law includes all manufacturing machines that take sets of instructions, if I'm not mistaken
A lathe takes no instructions and is potentially the most useful tool of all listed for the purposes of making a gun.
load more comments
(7 replies)
You don't even need a CNC machine. Basic hand tools and some pipe are enough to make a zip gun.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Shit, just browse makerlab.com and you’ll find all sorts of gun parts!
I print airsoft parts from time to time and it's honestly pretty annoying thinking I've found the part I need only to realize that it's the counterpart for an actual gun. There's loads of gun parts on 3d printing sites.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
A "ghost gun" is any gun without a serial number.
So you have to ban more than the 3D printer data files.
You will need to ban metal files as well. That's how real ghost guns are made.
They'll get there. They hate the idea of individual people being able to make things for themselves or having any other escape from consumer serfdom.
Better gun laws in general would be a better approach. The odd ghost gun or 2 is probably just noise in the system.
This is just dumb people being bought by gun lobby groups...on top of all of this bullshit, guns are %100 legal to make. It's not illegal to make a firearm for personal use, even if you could 3d print one completely.
Know you're local laws. It IS illegal to 3d print guns in NY amd CA already.
load more comments
(3 replies)
Won't stop anyone, but luckily I lost my 3D printer in a boating accident.
What's to stop people from rooting the printer?
The law. It would become a criminal offense to use open source firmware.
And that's exactly what the tech oligarchs' true goal is.
Perhaps we should organize against those bottom-feeders?
The desire for convenience.
Real glad I may have allegedly acquired a printer at some point in the last six years.
Allegedly.
Do you know what happens if you fire ballistics from a 3d printed plastic or resin model?
This problem will solve itself in 90% of cases