The beginning of the end: HB 2321 - 2025-26

[XEMON]

Let's add Colorado to the states that are looking at regulating 3D printers:

HB26-1144 Prohibit 3D Printing Firearms & Components | Colorado General Assembly https://share.google/x0G4t9L2op0qkOuvJ

[XEMON]

NY S9005 signed into law May 28, 2026:

Any machines falling under this category will be require to send the file to an aproove file detection algorithm.

(b) any machine capable of making three-dimensional modifications to an object from a digital design file using subtractive manufacturing.

EFF article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/0...ck-3d-printing

Also NY, but still in committee: S3562 & A2228

2025-S3562 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Requires a criminal history background check for the purchase of a three-dimensional printer capable of creating firearms; prohibits sale to a person who would be disqualified on the basis of criminal history from being granted a license to possess a firearm.

Sale of certain three-dimensional printers. 1. 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 in accordance with the provisions of section eight hundred forty-five-b of the executive law.

For purposes of this section, "three-dimensional printer" means a computer or computer-driven machine or device capable of producing a three-dimensional object from a digital model.

This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 7 have become a law.

[Rainmaker]

Well, another good reason to not live in NY I guess.

[Chuck E Ducky]

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” Martin Luther King Jr.

[Chuck E Ducky]

Crazy part is people with the wherewithal to do this or not the ones you gotta worry about. Unless you try to take said right to do so.