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[–] paf@jlai.lu 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I totally agree with you, like always politician have an idea but don't even state how to realise it... So possibly this will actually never happen.

One thing that come to my mind is that manufacturer could maybe use some kind of hash database of firearms related files. While printer are not very powerful, that's something that could be done on slicer but that would mean the death of open source software (at least in USA) as to implement this every manufacturer would need to force customer using their slicer. Also, wondering how much power demanding it is for printer to recreate solid object, could they just read gcode to analyse object? and since guns are not 25cmx25cmx25cm, it's not like this would take ages to analyse.