As a reminder, this is a NY State regulation, not federal - you'd only have to drive out of state to buy a gun-part capable 3D printer...

According to TFS (which is always accurate):

Note the words "built-in software" - no internet access needed for your printer to access govt gun part databases... your 3D printer "will just know" it's a gun part, I guess...

They were making guns 250 years ago without 3D printers, CNC machines, high-tech lathes, etc, why couldn't a motivated person do the same in 2026?

Making a single-use, single-shot gun is almost trivial - all you need is a way to strike the firing and contain the explosion of the cartridge as it propels the bullet down the barrel...

Prisoners used to make zip-guns in prison, why couldn't someone with access to a modern hardware store do the same?

Meant to add - https://www.porsche.com/usa/mo...

The Macan is an SUV - people DO use them to haul groceries and pick up kids.

I wonder if there are any subsidies for buying EV/Hybrids in Europe? I wonder if that is skewing the numbers?

Similar to steel/aluminium tariffs against Canada in Trump's first administration - the purpose was to reduce dependency on foreign sources of these strategic materials, to spur on domestic production. That's why we had tariffs on our neighbor to the north -we weren't mad at them, we needed to be able to produce these materials domestically.

This makes no sense - Amazon is giving a mining company commute services and cash to secure raw copper, which it will in turn hand off to wire/cable manufacturers in exchange for finished cabling to wire future data centers? This is crazy. I think it's more likely just an investment intended to increase supply and drive down costs - I can't believe Amazon actually want raw copper.

Don't nuclear power plants use copper wire?

Please, define a ghost gun.

How does requiring a gun to have a serial number keep them out of the hands of undesirables?

Oh, it means guns that can't be detected by a metal detector? That's already a law, how does this change anything?

If I go into my workshop and build one of these unregistered, undetectable guns, how will anyone know what I've done until I use it in the commission of a crime?

Of course, anyone illegally buying a gun is a criminal - they couldn't legally sell the submachine guns they produced.

Prisoners call them "zip guns"

WW2 resistance fighters had shitty stamped-metal single-use guns that basically destroyed themselves when fired.

Aren't there something like 300 million guns in circulation in the U.S., anyone that wants a gun can get one, what's the benefit of printing one?

https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27...

Yes, we all remember Fast & Furious government program that forced FFL holders to sell guns to known straw buyers buying guns to ship into Mexico - a program which had ZERO ability to track those illegally purchased guns once they entered Mexico, and was a campaign conducted without alerting the Mexican government.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27...

Bullet control?

Making/reloading your own rounds is a thing, and aside from trying to tax ammo into unaffordability, the other option folks like to propose is Micro-engraving serial numbers on bullets - another practical impossibility.

Newer printers do a lot more than they used to.

Really? Because a printer can regulate its nozzle temperature and you can SSH into it that 'proves' it can identify parts that might be used in a gun design?

I think not - I can SSH into a modern residential thermostat, that proves nothing.