• oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    23 hours ago

    I mean, it’s really easy to build a 3d printer from scratch (I’ve done it before).

    Also, fuzzy hashing is a thing, it doesn’t have to be a perfect match to get detected. But really this isn’t a big issue, since 3d printing firearms is legal in most of the US, and detection isn’t common.

    • communism@lemmy.ml
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      21 hours ago

      The article is about the UK, where you’re not even allowed to carry pepper spray let alone 3D print a gun. And guns are at least heavily restricted in most countries so I assume that, even if 3D printers sold in the US don’t have gun detection, it might be in 3D printers sold outside the US.