...So the expectation is that a criminal organization would obviously print and build a gun, but they wouldn't sidestep a law to illegally build a 3D printer from scratch to do it?
The guns are an excuse to kill Right-To-Repair, as well as small scale manufacturing. The big enshitification manufacturers lobbied for this.
Much the same as the ID laws are not about protecting children, but identifying Internet users
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...So the expectation is that a criminal organization would obviously print and build a gun, but they wouldn't sidestep a law to illegally build a 3D printer from scratch to do it?
The guns are an excuse to kill Right-To-Repair, as well as small scale manufacturing. The big enshitification manufacturers lobbied for this.
Much the same as the ID laws are not about protecting children, but identifying Internet users