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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 28 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

You can buy whole kits to build your own, the capacity to control what is made with the is about as much as if you tried to ban someone with a table saw from building a birdhouse.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Or just go to a bordering state, buy one, and come back

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

tried to ban someone with a table saw from building a birdhouse.

Thats a perfectly succinct analogy.

[–] lung@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Pretty sure you could make a gun too, which is the point of this 3D printer thing

And like what about other CNC machines?

I like that California is on the frontier of many tech laws, but this and the age thing are particularly dumb lately

[–] Oneiros@eviltoast.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah I’ve lived in CA for about 10 years now and have loved it, but the new laws they are passing are making it extremely likely that I’ll be moving soon. Especially with tje fact that we are either getting either Becerra who’s in Big AI and Big Oils pocket.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I made an AR15 with a hobby drill press from Lowes at work. Give me a hunk of metal, a micrometer and a file and I can make you a gun.

Or worse.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Neat, I would've assumed you'd need a mill or a lathe, not just a drill press. Kinda want to know how to do it myself, since I own the former but not either of the latter.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

The upper reciever is the load bearing part on an Armalite, but it's also not the regulated part. The lower receiver is, and all you need for that is a box that holds the trigger components in vaguely the right place, a hole that lines up the magazine, a hole to stick the buffer tube into at the back, and some way to nail the upper receiver to it.

You could carve an AR lower out of wood if you were dedicated enough.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

Guess I ought to go find a set of machining schematics.

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Shovel AK is a thing too. There are stencils out there for it.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Gah how can I forget about the shovel AK????

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody tell California about a nail combined with certain diameters of pipe, because guess what, those can become guns too.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

zip guns, lets bring in slam fired shotguns.

Never doubt the ingenuity of man killing other men.