Part C Subpart A of the [New York State 2026-2027] budget includes two particularly concerning provisions: §2.10 and 2.11. These threaten Class E felony charges for distributing or possessing 3D-printer files that would produce firearm parts with a 3D printer or CNC machine.
The first provision, 2.10, makes it a felony to sell or distribute files that can produce major firearm components to someone who is not a federally and NY-licensed gunsmith. Under 2.11, it’s also a felony to possess these files if you intend to illegally print a firearm or share them with someone you believe is not permitted to own or smith a firearm.
A journalist reporting on 3D-printed guns. A researcher studying printable firearms. An artist incorporating parts into a new work commenting on gun culture. Under these provisions merely sharing a print file with any of them could result in criminal charges, even if no one involved intends to assemble a firearm.
Criminalizing information doesn’t work. Someone intent on illegally printing a firearm is already subject to charges for that act. Adding felony liability for simply possessing a file or design piles on additional charges while doing nothing to stop printing. New charges for someone distributing these files won’t make them inaccessible to lawbreakers, but they will have a chilling effect on legitimate and entirely legal work.
Unsurprisingly, a similar law was proposed and subsequently scrapped in Colorado due to First Amendment concerns. We recommend New York do the same.
— Rory Mir and Nathan Sheard in Stop New York’s Attack on 3D Printing
Well the libertarians supported censorship a few years ago. When they said a private business who want do business in a dictatorship. Could require firearm files be deleted from the American side of the company.
So the slaves wouldn’t have the ability to make their own guns. The europeans don’t want their serfs to have the ability, to make their own guns. Without government permission or knowledge.
And the libertarians are comfortable with that. Since they say it’s a private company.
Biden & Harris & Democrats & left wing depraved indifference and violence: Shocking Undercover Videos Expose Horrors of Joe Biden’s Unaccompanied Child Trafficking Scandal.
“The horrors that migrant children endured during Joe Biden’s years as president can never be forgiven, nor forgotten. No, not the endless kids he sniffed – the ones that were trafficked across the southern border, thanks to his incompetent, inhumane administration.
During Biden’s four years, 448,000 unaccompanied alien children, or UACs, entered America. Most traveled through Mexico and crossed the southern border, sent by their parents. Alone, to be shepherded by drug cartel-affiliated coyotes.
Townhall Media has obtained a series of undercover videos produced after an in-depth investigation of organizations that received millions of dollars from Biden’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
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As David Gregory so well demonstrated the journalist has nothing to fear. Providing their “journalism” has the right angle.
The State That Just Told Its Governor to Pound Sand [Kentucky].
“We don’t get to cover good legislation enough here at WGL, and when you see it shoved down the throat of a gun control Governor, it makes it all that much sweeter. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses two huge bills which advanced out of the Kentucky Legislature, were vetoed by their Governor, and then that veto was overriden by a large majority of both chambers. Today we discuss HB 312 and HB 78, two huge pieces of Second Amendment legislation which further advances the individual rights of Kentucky residents and provides critical security to the gun industry from frivolous and meritless lawsuits.”
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Bourbon whiskey horses and guns!!!
GREAT entertainment. I hope the liberals continue to stay away. Kentucky has a state income tax, but Tennessee does not.
Btw
Industrial hemp was made legal by the Trump administration in it’s first four years. A growing business in the bluegrass state.
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Actually happy for your state making hemp legal, much cleaner to work with than a lot of the alternatives for various fibers. Also way harder to outsource production of various stages.
Thanks
I wrote a college paper about this. I was very surprised to find just how much the US imports, Industrial Hemp from Canada. Its unfortunate that THC was the focus for decades. Instead of all the non intoxication products that come from weed. For 2 hundred years , kentucky was the primary source for hemp in the United States. It was more profitable than tobacco.
And I visited and toured the new hemp processing facility , just a twenty minute drive from my house. Great times ($$$) for the future.
Is it just me but why is there essentially new laws being created through a budget????
As SAFE would say Welcome to NY. Best I can understand the governor can push initiatives via budget by the legislature voting to fund the state to enact varios laws in addition to the typical legislative session.
I was a machinist for 47 years. I can make anything I want.
But you probably won’t.
But you aren’t the point, The point is that your neighbor who doesn’t have your experience but can run a 3D printer or CNC machine if someone else programs it can’t make what they want.
Cuts down the potential surveillance pool.
So…I have a bunch of 3D printer files on my laptop and go to New York I will be thrown in jail? What other files are illegal?
If owning a gun is a right, why can’t you print one?