[DBrow]

Undetectable gun parts, again. 3D printing will be seen as a danger, aside from the intellectual property issues.

There may be a future where many common objects we used can be customized and printed at home, at need.

This won't happen if the government becomes afraid.

[Red Steel]

Bloomberg’s stooge Israel’s bill is DOA.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

3D printing could be the steam engine of a new industrial revolution. The U.S. is in danger of legislating itself right out of the race.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

If you could poop C4 by eating a combination of foods, they would regulate that too.

[DBrow]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/01/18/nokia-3d-printing-gigaom/1845283/

Or handgrips for a 1911...

[apillar]

Law enforcement officials should have the power to stop keep homemade high-capacity magazines from proliferating with a Google search.”

Bwhaaaa! Congressman Dufus actually thinks the government has the power to remove something from the Internet! I guess he doesn't understand that nature of the Internet and the fact the once something is put out there it will NEVER truly disappears.

[JRandomFreeper]

Like it or not, I will continue to ignore stupid legislation.

/johnny

[AlaskaErik]

I'm not worried. Firearms and replacement parts will always be available. After all, did Prohibition stop us from drinking? Has the war on drugs prevented anyone from getting their poison of choice on nearly every street corner? Have laws in gun-free Mexico stopped cartels from arming up with the latest military hardware, to include fully automatic weapons? The government can pass all the laws they want, and it's apparent that unconstitutionality isn't a consideration, but in the end the black market will fill the void created by shutting down America's civilian firearms industry.

[discostu]

They might make laws, but it won’t actually stop anything. I know people that make their own guns the hard way (with steel and effort), probably against the law already, doesn’t stop them. That’s the fun part about converting raw materials, if the materials are legal it doesn’t matter if the verb is or isn’t, people will do it. As long as there’s enough thing to do with 3D printing that the general populace wants that core technology available outlawing certain printed objects will be meaningless.

[Da Bilge Troll]

ping

[ConservativeInPA]

Does anyone know if CNC machines are regulated?

[Hardastarboard]

3D printer legislation

Ahahahahahahah, breathe, ahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

The clowns who inhabit our Congress (House and Senate) don't understand technology beyond the level of a door knob (and I'll bet some of them are challenged with that). I always say if you put 100 politicians in a room with 100 cases of food and 100 can openers, they'd all starve to death.

[Yo-Yo]

"...Law enforcement officials should have the power to stop keep homemade high-capacity magazines from proliferating with a Google search.”

No, it shouldn't. There is nothing wrong with law-abiding citizens from having full capacity magazines. And criminals will be criminals by definition.

Limiting magazine capacity only makes criminals out of law abiding citizens.

[Vince Ferrer]

3D printing is part of a new paradigm which is the wave of the future. Democrats are fighting it with 1930's style central government "progressivism." The future will run right over the democrats. The future will actually look quite a bit like the decentralized past, where a neighborhood blacksmith was perfectly capable of making a weapon, and nothing endangered the republic.

The other part of the new paradigm is social networks. This is also a decentralizing force. If we are connected to the networks that can help us, why have an opressive government?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

While Israel means well,

No, he does not. He means evil.

I am through with being nice or giving these people the benefit of the doubt. They are swaggering tin plated petty dictators with delusions of godhood.

They want helpless people who must follow whatever dumb rule they pull out of their filthy butts.

No. More.