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NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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The loophole thing really turned into a talking point, didn't it? Whenever someone uses that word, I automatically assume they've never been to a gun show.
I tend to make the same assumption, not that I think it's important for people saying these things and crafting these laws to have ever been to a gun show, but they should at least understand what it is they want to regulate.
I am by no means anti gun, I like guns, enjoy shooting, I don't currently own any because I have other priorities for my money, but if I suddenly found myself with a lot more disposable income I'd probably own a couple. That said, I do support a lot of gun control measures that would make the average Republican voter call me a crazy gun grabbing communist.
Mostly though, I hate seeing people pushing for laws and regulations when they clearly don't understand what it is they're trying to regulate. You see a lot of liberals get up in arms (and rightfully so) about shitty Internet laws crafted by geriatric politicians who can barely manage to check their own emails, but then go and make the same kind of mistakes with gun laws
To name one particularly egregious example, McCarthy describing a barrel shroud as "a shoulder thing that goes up" had similar energy no Stevens describing the internet as "a series of tubes" except the tubes analogy could actually kind of work for some internet issues (though not the specific one he was complaining about) whereas I can't think of any way to twist the shoulder thing comment to make it apply to a barrel shroud.