First tool ban is here! A new law was just signed in New York that requires blueprint blocking technology on every CNC machine, laser cutter, lathe and 3D printer. This affects everyone who makes, builds or fixes things. This isn’t a firearms law. It’s a manufacturing law. And they buried it in the budget because they knew exactly what it was.
From the actual bill:
Considering the number of open source 3d printers, and mills, plus conversion packages for manual mills, It’s ludicrous to assume it’s feasible. And NY has nowhere near the manufacturing monopoly to force the rest of the country, let alone the world, to comply with a demand that all of them have blocking systems.
Even given the safety check of a working group, this same bill also makes a stick illegal. So it’s more than likely to fail on a few challenges, assuming it even makes it to final vote in this form.
They start with closed source and will close the open source loop hole in a future bill. This is boiling frogs if anything.
It’s even better than that - for them.
With this bill the legislation is effectively now on the books but in a dormant state where it can be selectively activated at any future time and with whatever scope the ‘working group’ decide.
Explainaturd in the room… Toxic positive optimist. No one wants to talk about the yankkee cartel and the gun and drug running it does. Inch by inch… they never do anything for the good. Billionares can make it happen capitain… they don’t run things the way they you think… You have no leverage. As long as they winning they don’t care if the shits on fire. The 10% is on the spreadsheet. You no longer matter. They can make this happen… at least in the USA. Anything is possible in gang banger USA. Imperial boomerang… They create the problem to solve the problem.