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  • NY lawmakers propose law requiring background checks to buy 3D printers

    10/17/2023 3:15:04 PM PDT · by Skid289 · 28 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | John Crump
    Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2023/10/ny-lawmakers-want-background-checks-waiting-periods-for-3d-printers/#ixzz8GRDhwdq0 Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Follow us: @Ammoland on Twitter | Ammoland on Facebook A proposed New York State law would require fingerprints and a background check before a person could purchase a 3D printer because of fears of 3D-printed firearms. The bill, AB A8132, would require anyone purchasing a 3D printer capable of printing a firearm or firearm parts to submit fingerprints and be submitted to the Division of Criminal Justice Services for a criminal background check. Anyone who is prohibited from owning firearms would not be allowed to buy a 3D printer. Although the proposed...
  • Huge study finds tomosynthesis better at breast cancer detection (3-D scans 18% better w/fewer false positives)

    03/15/2023 9:53:55 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 5 replies
    In a study of over a million women, digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) showed improved breast cancer screening outcomes over screening with standard digital mammography alone. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States. Regular screening is the most reliable method for the early detection of breast cancer. Screening with two-dimensional (2-D) digital mammography alone is still the standard of care at many sites, but it has its limitations due to its inability to detect some cancers. There is a growing amount of evidence that DBT, a more advanced technology, has a higher breast cancer detection...
  • Gun Buyback Success: Man Prints 110 Guns, Receives $21,000

    10/10/2022 7:03:31 AM PDT · by marktwain · 34 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | October 7, 2022 | Dean Weingarten
    On August 28, 2022, in Utica, New York, the Attorney General’s office of Letitia James paid out over $21,000 in gift cards for 3D printed “ghost guns.” The guns were printed by an anonymous entrepreneur on a $200 printer he received for Christmas. Letitia James took credit for the “buyback” of “ghost guns” at Utica. “Buyback” is an Orwellian term. The guns which are turned in were never owned by the government. The AG did not mention the mass purchase of 3D printed guns, although they mentioned 177 “ghost guns.” From ag.ny.gov:NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James...
  • Houston Gun Turn in Nets 800, Includes Box Full of 3D Printed Pistols

    08/05/2022 5:48:17 AM PDT · by marktwain · 33 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | August 2, 2022 | Dean Weingarten
    On July 30, 2022, Houston, Texas, organized a gun “buyback” event. It was the first such event held in Houston. “Buyback” is an Orwellian term because the guns were never owned by the government, so it cannot “buy” them “back.” More appropriately, it was a gun turn-in event. According to people on Twitter, at least sixty-two 3D-printed pistols were turned in at $150 each. That would be a total of $9,300 for the box of mostly plastic pistols. The 3D-printed pistols are “ghost guns” because they do not have a government-approved serial number on them.Mayor Turner confirmed that “ghost guns”...
  • 3D rabbit 'hologram' created by levitating screen using sound waves

    06/17/2022 7:36:09 PM PDT · by American Number 181269513 · 9 replies
    New Scientist ^ | June 17, 2022 | Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
    Ultrasonic sound waves have been used to levitate objects in crowded rooms to make hologram-like displays. Such acoustic levitation was previously only practical in empty spaces, but a new algorithm can quickly readjust the sound waves when they encounter an obstacle to keep the object in the air. Sound waves are comprised of air particles moving together. If manipulated in the right way, they can pick up and move objects. However, if the sound waves run into some other object that reflects or scatters them, the levitating object can come tumbling down. Ryuji Hirayama at University College London and his...
  • Stanford engineers enable simple cameras to see in 3D

    03/28/2022 7:27:19 PM PDT · by aimhigh · 15 replies
    EurekaAlert ^ | 03/28/2022 | STANFORD UNIVERSITY
    Standard image sensors, like the billion or so already installed in practically every smartphone in use today, capture light intensity and color. Relying on common, off-the-shelf sensor technology – known as CMOS – these cameras have grown smaller and more powerful by the year and now offer tens-of-megapixels resolution. But they’ve still seen in only two dimensions, capturing images that are flat, like a drawing – until now. Researchers at Stanford University have created a new approach that allows standard image sensors to see light in three dimensions. That is, these common cameras could soon be used to measure the...
  • Half of all women experience false positive mammograms after 10 years of annual screening (“Surprised…3D technology screening does not substantially reduce the risk of having a false positive” (Don’t fret over a positive))

    03/25/2022 5:02:43 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 16 replies
    Medical Xpress / UC Davis / JAMA Network Open ^ | Mar. 25, 2022 | Michael Bissel et al
    A study found half of all women will experience at least one false positive mammogram over a decade of annual breast cancer screening with digital breast tomosynthesis (3D mammography). The risk of false positive results after 10 years of screening is lower in women screened every other year. A false positive is when a mammogram is flagged as abnormal, but there is no cancer in the breast. It also showed that repeated screening with 3D mammography only modestly decreases the chance of having a false positive result compared with the standard digital 2D mammography. Other factors more strongly linked to...
  • Ninth Circuit Panel Finds in Favor of SAF, First Amendment, State Department, and 3D

    05/03/2021 5:57:49 AM PDT · by marktwain · 28 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | 29 April, 2021 | Dean Weingarten
    U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- On April 27th, 2021, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found, in a split decision, that Judge Lasnik of Washington State did not have the authority to issue a preliminary injunction preventing a final rule change in the Department of State and Department of Commerce from taking effect. From the decision:R. NELSON, Circuit Judge:The U.S. Department of State (“DOS”) and Department of Commerce appeal the district court’s order granting the motion of 22 states and the District of Columbia to enjoin DOS’s final rule removing 3D-printed guns and their associated files from the U.S....
  • Illegal 3D Printed Guns in Europe by Popular Front (Video)

    11/28/2020 5:01:22 AM PST · by marktwain · 12 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | 26 November | Dean Weingarten
    The 26-minute video is an interview by Jake Hanrahan of the Popular Front, and a demonstration of the FGC-9. The video is on the way to becoming one of his more popular productions. As of November 23, 2020, it had over 70,000 views, basically on the first day. The video starts with commentators obsessing over “ghost guns” in the United States. This may be clever editing to keep Youtube censors off the track. The concern over untraceable guns in the United States is ludicrous. There are hundreds of millions of untraceable guns in the United States already.The premise of the...
  • SAF and Defense Distributed win Fifth Circuit case on First Amendment and 3D

    09/09/2020 5:29:00 AM PDT · by marktwain · 6 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | 7 September, 2020 | Dean Weingarten
    On 19 August 2020, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Federal District court. The three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit found the Attorney General of New Jersey is under Texas jurisdiction for this case. The case is Defense Distributed v. Grewal. The finding allows a lawsuit filed against the New Jersey AG for violation of Defense Distributed First Amendment rights to publish computer code for 3D printed guns, to go forward.Presumably, the discovery of Grewal's records on any discussion relevant to stop Defense Distributed from publishing will be allowed to continue. AG Grewal can ask for an en...
  • 3D model of Christ based on Shroud of Turin on display in Venice

    08/07/2020 8:03:41 AM PDT · by AggregateThreat · 38 replies
    The Museum of the Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice is hosting an exhibit of the Shroud of Turin, which began in mid-July and is scheduled to continue until the September 26. The exposition, titled “The Christ of the Shroud: A Sacred Tridemensional Anatomy,” features a life-sized, 3D model of Jesus, which was created using the physical dimensions of the image on the Shroud of Turin.
  • 3-D Metal Printing Gaining Traction

    06/18/2020 12:25:11 PM PDT · by marktwain · 7 replies
    Small metal injection molded (MIM) parts are common in firearms, but the decades-old process for lower-pressure components may be short-lived if the latest figures from 3DEO are any indication. The Los Angeles-based company, which specializes in high-volume metal 3D printing technology, experienced 600-percent growth in revenue from 2019 to 2020, with orders increasing 394 percent during the same period and staff increasing by 172 percent to meet that demand. It now has 25 engineers working on research and development. 3DEO is barely four years old, and although its products are usually taken for granted by most enthusiasts, firearm manufactures have...
  • A functional 3D Printed Hybrid Pepperbox .22: the PG22 Maverick

    03/15/2020 6:12:25 AM PDT · by marktwain · 10 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 15 March, 2020 | Dean Weingarten
    Ross Peters, in Wisconsin, has created a hybrid 3D printed functional cartridge revolver, with metal components. It has been demonstrated on Youtube.  The design is an interesting hybrid pepperbox, with rifled barrels. The video gives a good explanation and documentation of this six shot pepperbox. Peters designed the handgun to fire .22 shorts. The barrels for the revolver are made with .22 barrel liner, which is easily available by mail order. One of the reasons to use barrel liner is it is commercially rifled. This meets the requirements for a rifled barrel, to have the firearm classified as a...
  • Seattle Judge Rules Against State Department, Free Speech in 3D code

    11/19/2019 3:49:13 AM PST · by marktwain · 7 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | 14 November, 2019 | Dean Weingarten
    On 12 November, 2019, another semi-retired District Judge, in the Western District of Washington (Seattle), continued the judicial resistance against the Trump administration and the rule of law.  Senior Judge Lasnik was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998. The Judge, Robert S. Lasnik, ruled the Department of State violated administrative procedure by deciding the ability of individuals to make simple small arms, already widely available, was not a “critical defense item” in the expansive International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) regulations.The Department of State had reached this decision as part of a long running lawsuit brought by Defense Distributed...
  • Colorado father and son make their own Lamborghini with 3D printer

    10/04/2019 10:54:53 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 39 replies
    UPI ^ | Oct. 4, 2019 / 12:47 PM | Ben Hooper
    Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A Colorado physicist is putting his scientific expertise to a practical purpose -- using a 3D printer to build a Lamborghini with his 11-year-old son. Erie resident Sterling Backus and his son, Xander, 11, started work on their full-size, working model of an Italian supercar -- specifically the Lamborghini Aventador -- when the boy asked his father if it was possible. "One day I said to him, hey can we build one of those?" Xander Backus told WCNC-TV. Sterling Backus said his background as a "gear head" has thus far been more helpful than his training...
  • Any 3D Printer Recommendations?

    08/08/2019 9:38:43 AM PDT · by amorphous · 58 replies
    8/8/2019 | Me
    Looking to upgrade from a XYZ Pro Printer to one that can reach a nozzle temp of 300 C. I've kind of settled on the QIDI Tech X-Max. Anyone have experience with them or other recommendations?
  • Colorado father and son 3D printing their own Lamborghini

    07/12/2019 5:26:46 PM PDT · by ETL · 17 replies
    FoxNews.com/auto ^ | July 12, 2019 | Gary Gastelu | Fox News
    The Lamborghini Aventador costs over $400,000, putting it out of reach for most people. Unless you 3D print one for yourself. That’s what Sterling Backus of Erie, Colo., is doing, after he and his son, Xander, decided they wanted their own supercar while playing a racing game. They’ve been working on it for over a year, and the sleek black two-door is starting to take a shape that's not a carbon copy of the Aventador, but heavily inspired by it. Backus is a physicist who works as the Chief Scientific Officer of a local laser firm and is an adjunct...
  • The Machinist vocation in the Computer Age - the Computer Side Strongly Resembles 3D Printing

    06/20/2019 12:00:31 PM PDT · by CharlesOConnell · 10 replies
    I sat at a banquet a week ago with a guy who started up, worked, then sold his wholesale machinist biz, in our Sacramento CA suburb, Rancho Cordova. That’s where the money is, in the long run, but for young people starting out, a starting wage of $20, up to $26, is not chopped liver. The happy-stance is that the computer control programming, like specialty AutoCAD, for 3D printing, at local education specialty clubs and for hobbyists, strongly resembles the professional computer application software for machinist vocational training, that now goes by the jargon CNC, for Computer Numerical Control. Our...
  • 3D printers have ‘fingerprints,’ a discovery that could help trace 3D-printed guns...

    10/20/2018 12:27:29 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 37 replies
    Univ. at Buffalo ^ | 10/16/18 | Cory Nealon
    3D printers have ‘fingerprints,’ a discovery that could help trace 3D-printed guns, counterfeit goods Photo illustration of how the technology works. Credit: Wenyao Xu, University at Buffalo. BUFFALO, N.Y. — Like fingerprints, no 3D printer is exactly the same. Related Assets: Media Contact Information Download Images See Video/Multimedia Download Documents Find a UB Expert That’s the takeaway from a new University at Buffalo-led studyDownload pdf that describes what’s believed to be the first accurate method for tracing a 3D-printed object to the machine it came from.The advancement, which the research team calls “PrinTracker,” could ultimately help law enforcement and...
  • Defense Distributed Press Conference Video: Paloma Heindorff take the Helm

    09/29/2018 6:11:42 AM PDT · by marktwain · 6 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 29 September, 2018 | Dean Weingarten
    At a news conference in Austin, Texas, Paloma Heindorff has announced that she has taken the position of Director now that Cody Wilson has resigned the post amid his legal troubles over alleged sex with a 16-year-old prostitute.  The press conference has become global news. Defense Distributed has always been adept at beating the establishment media. They posted the entire new conference online at Youtube the same day. It is worth watching. The video is reasonably short, at 19:37 minutes Youtube has a history of taking down Defense Distributed videos. You can click on the Youtube link to watch...