“New York legislators have proposed a bill that would require criminal background checks for buyers of three-dimensional printers capable of producing firearms or firearm components,” AmmoLand reported Tuesday. “This legislation comes amidst rising concerns over the ease with which individuals can produce “ghost guns” using 3D printing technology.”
Assembly Bill A8132, sponsored by Assembly Member Jenifer Rajkumar, would mandate:
“ANY RETAILER OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER SOLD IN THIS STATE WHICH IS CAPABLE OF PRINTING A FIREARM, OR ANY COMPONENTS OF A FIREARM, IS REQUIRED AND AUTHORIZED TO REQUEST AND RECEIVE CRIMINAL HISTORY INFORMATION CONCERNING SUCH PURCHASER FROM THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES…”
That the proposed bill has several large holes in it big enough to drive trucks through is typical of all gun prohibition schemes. In this case, several immediately come to mind: What if the individual selling it is not a retailer? Will it apply to internet purchases from out-of-state retailers, and/or what stops someone from buying a printer from an out-of-state store and driving back with it?
When the bill predictably fails to reduce New York homicides (because it’s focused on all the wrong things, like not on the criminals), look for new hysterical and pointless demands, like banning out-of-state sales, banning “straw purchases” of printers, banning printer parts, and blaming “red” states with “lax printer laws.” And let’s not forget banning possession of 3D printers by prohibited persons, to be expanded to anyone under a restraining order, on a watchlist, or “red-flagged,” followed by “may issue” permits for anyone else who wants one.
In any case, what does anyone “need” an “assault printer” capable of producing “weapons of war” for?
That’s the way it always works, tearing down freedom in increments on the downward spiral to a total ban on everything the violence monopoly doesn’t want to allow citizens to have.
Forget that no printer is needed to make a DIY gun. Not only have hobbyists here in the U.S. been doing it for centuries using commonly available materials and tools, but the practice is ubiquitous wherever the demand for guns provides sufficient incentives to make them, even in relatively technologically challenged environments such as Pakistan, “where Kalashnikovs welded from scrap metal are cheaper than smartphones and sold on an industrial scale across Pakistan and the world.”
No further proof is needed that the ridiculously termed “commonsense gun safety laws” don’t work than to look at ostensibly “gun-free” Japan. Per The Japan Times:
“The handmade weapon used to kill former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe can be made easily using readily available commercial components, weapon experts say, raising questions about what else can be done to prevent such shootings. While little is definitively known about the double-barreled firearm used by the suspect — 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami — preliminary expert analysis indicates that it was composed of materials that can be bought at a hardware store, including wood for the frame, plumbing pipes for the barrels, electrical tape, commercial batteries for the ignition and electrical wiring. No externally visible elements of the weapon appear to have been 3D-printed.”
Common sense, however, does not appear to be printer ban sponsor Rajkumar’s strong suit.
“As President Joe Biden addresses the nation tonight on gun violence, I am passing meaningful gun safety bills with my colleagues,” she claimed on Facebook.
“I am sponsoring this event in my district next week to get the guns off our streets. Surrender an operable gun and you will receive a $200 bank card and iPad. No questions asked,” she announced about a “buyback.” That’s interesting because no less a source than the National Institute of Justice has declared:
Gun buybacks are ineffective as generally implemented. 1. The buybacks are too small to have an impact. 2. The guns turned in are at low risk of ever being used in a crime. 3. Replacement guns are easily acquired. Unless these three points are overcome, a gun buyback cannot be effective.
How’s that for “meaningful”?
Add to that encouraging untrained people to handle and transport guns, some without a clue about Cooper’s rules or how to clear them, and providing a “fence” for stolen guns or a way to dispose of “crime guns” with “no questions asked,” and they’re not only ineffective, they’re dangerous.
“When our Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence their final words were ‘We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor,’” Rajkumar postures in a political self-promotion video.
Those would be the same Founding Fathers who ratified the Constitution with its Bill of Rights declaring “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Yet somehow, serial numbers, background checks, and other prior restraints and bans were not on their agenda.
Not content to go after the Second Amendment, Rajkumar now sets her sights on the First. As Reason has noted in “ How to (Legally) Make Your Own Off-the-Books Handgun”:
“While firearm restrictionists will likely soon be clamoring for laws to rein in private production, there’s only so much they can do: Communicating instructions for how to build a gun is constitutionally protected speech, after all.”
That Democrats disagree (to the point of suing gunmakers and going after gun ads) tells us pretty much all we need to know.
So who is this woman who glibly quotes the Founders out of one side of her mouth while undermining the legacy they bequeathed Posterity out of the other?
“Jenifer is proud to be born and raised in New York, as the first generation American in her family. Her mom was born in a mud hut in India,” her bio states. “Her parents immigrated to the United States with just $300 and a suitcase, settling in Queens where they got their start.”
In another self-promoting video, she explains “How Indian Values Have Shaped Her Legacy.”
The type of values that resulted in “Forged signatures … found on petitions boosting the bid… of state Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar…” is left unstated.
In any case, it’s curious how dirt-poor foreign nationals flee failed states with mud huts for opportunities unique to America and fail to realize the prosperity came about not because of government controls but because that’s what a Bill of Rights culture makes possible. Focused on “what our country can do for them” materially and lured by the collectivist siren song of wealth redistribution, they set about restricting the freedoms that made it possible and fouling their new nest for everyone.
That’s why the Democrats are so focused on forcing through a superhighway to citizenship. And any “gun rights leader” who claims that’s not a concern for the “single issue” is not giving it to you straight, either through blindness or duplicity.
NY Lawmakers Want Background Checks & Waiting Periods for 3D Printers – A8132 by AmmoLand Shooting Sports News on Scribd
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
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