EU proposes directive against 3D-printed weapons, includes possession of blueprints | Sweden Herald

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1. Per https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_421
   They want to make illegal “creation, acquisition, possession and dissemination of blueprints for 3D printing of firearms”. I’m guessing linking to YouTube videos, on which some US guy 3d prints a gun would be illegal. No words on banning gunsmith books yet.

2. The blueprints part goes too far.

3. Sounds good to me. I don’t see any reason why anyone should have gun-printing blueprints or 3D-printed guns.

   Edit for everyone downvoting: please humour the rest of us and explain *why* would anyone have blueprints unless they actually want to print a gun. Come on, say it.

4. Good.

5. Good luck, have fun.

6. Here in Portugal far-right groups with tiws to our far-right oarty were planning a coup wich included a 3-d printed weapons and others

   But apparently according to reddit exoerts this is actually a terrible measure!

7. Everyone with half a brain cell can see how enforcing this will be so problematic..

8. Ban all metal pipes and welding tools too.

9. Give me plumbing tubes a condom a nail and bullets and i make a gun. This is useless and will again attack our privacy.

10. What’s fun is the current military precision rifle improvements come from the US precision shooter enthusiast community. Not from big daddy corpos. And the EU keeps on going against civilians having, making and using weapons; missing on a lot of opportunities.

    Progress but only when guided by the nanny states and you would not want the plebe to have the means to revolt. Same mentality the nobles had for centuries.

11. Ah yes, because censoring information works so well…

12. So the glorious union is back to directives and regulations and rules. The real key to lead the world.

13. You cannot print a firearm. You can print the trigger, rails, the shell. But the barrel, the breech, the ammo, that needs to be metal.

    Any guy with a lathe and/cnc router is much more dangerous. But those you cannot control because they’re not cloud based.

    Its stupid. If you want to hurt people, you’re gonna find a way. This is not an efficient one

14. Fine, I just paint my blueprints red

15. Ah yes, lets focus on the important topics like 3d printed guns…

16. Can anyone please show me where 3D-printed guns are used to commit crime? Where did people printing 3D guns get the ammunition and why is this not the problem?