New York proposal requires 3D printer manufacturers to prevent printing guns

Performative legislation against performative weapons? It sounds slightly more workable than requiring cars & trucks to be incapable of transporting illegal firearms into New York. But only slightly.

Meanwhile, if you're running any sort of org that might need 3D printing - research laboratory, factory, engineering college, whatever - you might want to cross "New York" off your list of workable locations.

This would effectively ban open source 3D printers. Anyone who cares about open source should vote out any and all politicians who support this.

here's a primary source: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/keeping-new-yorkers-safe-go...

> Create a first-in-the-nation policy that requires the establishment of minimum safety standards for 3D printer manufacturers to ensure their products are equipped with technology that blocks the printer from creating firearms and component parts.

I can imagine two ways of implementing this:

a) create a database of all known 3D-printable gun parts, and require 3D printers to load a copy of that database and refuse to print any blueprint if it's in the database

b) require 3D printer manufacturers to implement logic that takes a blueprint and identifies "is this a gun part?"

option A would create a giant, publicly accessible database of 3D printable guns. which seems like the opposite of Hochul's intention.

option B...seems like it's equivalent to the Halting Problem? like, quite literally undecidable. they want to make an algorithm mandatory but the best you can ever do at the problem is a heuristic.