Software makers have solidified their place as useful idiots for the anti-Second Amendment agenda by leading the charge when it comes to the development of programs that detect gun parts being made by 3D printers, block those prints and in some cases, automatically notify the authorities. Claiming that these advances are aimed at curbing the illegal printing of firearms and firearms parts, these companies have donned their brown shirts a bit too quickly and have not the first clue regarding the tradition and constitutionality of homemade guns in America.
Cloud-based 3D printing management platform 3DPrinterOS has partnered with Montclair State University to develop an algorithm that identifies the 3D printing of firearm parts, but they are not the first. Print&Go recently launched a software system designed to block 3D-printed production of firearms called 3D GUN’T. What this software does not offer before it invades your privacy and tells you what you can and can’t do in your home on the equipment you paid hard-earned money for is detect whether or not you are a prohibited individual, that is a person who’s record prohibits them from legally purchasing or possessing a firearm.
“This partnership allows us to explore the intersection of technology and public safety. We are excited to contribute our knowledge to develop a system that can make a real difference in identifying and mitigating risks associated with 3D printed firearms,” says co-director of the MIX at Montclair State University, Jason Frasca.
I have long said that the attack on 80% receivers as being “too easy to complete” has been disingenuous, a statement supported by authorities and companies now setting their sights on 3D-printing, which is effectively a 0% home build. If starting from scratch is considered illegal, then let’s face the facts, the goal is to prohibit Americans from exercising their Constitutional right to construct a firearm at home, a move that I find in contempt of the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, which directs authorities to respect the historical traditions of the Second Amendment.
Print&Go claims 3D GUN’T is designed to prevent the illegal manufacture of firearms via 3D printers, however, if a law-abiding citizen in a free state (actual America) chooses to manufacture a gun at home using their 3D printer, how does 3D GUN’T distinguish between this user and a criminal? It doesn’t. The software treats all Americans as criminals, deploying advanced algorithms to analyze CAD files, sent remotely or loaded via USB, and detect components that resemble firearm designs, immediately blocking print jobs that match these items in its extensive database. Additional use of artificial intelligence (AI) recognizes new or modified gun designs, keeping the software adaptive to emerging freedom and helping to stifle it.
3D GUN’T doesn’t stop there. It goes full Gestapo in your home, logging details of each print job and allowing authorities to trace activities and conduct a full audit trail, with integrated firmware installed directly on printers ensuring that unauthorized printing is blocked even if the printer is offline. The icing on top is real-time camera monitoring, providing visual oversight during printing and stopping any job where it detects a firearm shape.
“3D GUN’T is a critical tool in our efforts to ensure the responsible use of 3D printing technology… The solution not only prevents the illegal manufacture of firearms but also creates peace of mind for clients, whether they are makers, educational institutions, or businesses. With 3D GUN’T, users can oversee the management of their print jobs with the assurance that their technology misuse can be mitigated,” says Print&Go’s CEO John Amin.
The silver lining to this situation is that it opens up an oppertunity for 3D printer manufacturers who respect the rights of Americans to step in and fill a void. It also allows us yet another vote, this time with our bank accounts. Note these software developers and the 3D printer manufacturers who utilize this technology, then ask yourselves if you want to give them your money or invite them into your home.
Like it would only monitor for gun parts and not report on everything else like Alexa lol well another thing to add to the fuck no pile of technology.
3D Gunt. I thinkits a wrong letter somewear.
There will no more talk bout printin Gun stuff, you slaves get back to picking cotton before the democrackers start whip crackin…connect the h…
h ttps://youtube.com/watch?v=df4VdyGIqJ8&feature=shared
nope.
That’s why I like a good old fashion Series II Bridgeport milling machine and a South Bend lathe. Don’t forget a rotary phase converter as residential homes don’t have 3 phase power.
debbys does. And boxesof valvestems from Turkey
schrader’s gat.
LOLOLOL
Rotary phase converters are soooo yesterday. A 10hp digital single phase to three phase converter runs about $200 these days – I have 2 of them in my garage shop
Pb_fan59,
The important question is which solution has a longer lifespan.
The jury is still out on that one, but given the choice of inefficiency (you’re using a single phase motor of sufficient size to basically spin a 3 phase generator with additional required regulators and current injectors thrown into the mix, all of which require maintenance), cost, and freedom from voltage sag when load is applied – especially when dealing with multiple utilization points, a dedicated static digital converter makes sense. This is of course only where there isn’t utility supplied 3 phase power available, which is the ultimate first choice not usually available for residential customers.
Yeah, but it’s basically one electronic phase converter per running machine, where a rotary can spin multiple machines (within its limits). Pretty much everybody with a real shop and no 3 phase uses rotaries, and they’re both simple and damn near bulletproof. A delta wound motor is ideal; a wye wound motor has some (minor) limitations. Most of us home shop/RPC users have been running a rotary for decades- the common Fitch design is at least 30 years old. A used 10 hp motor is often free….(I picked up an extra for the cost of hauling it last year- Baldor, low hours, free to a good home). A used Bridgeport I J head is a couple three grand and will take a 0% lower (billet) to final shape just fine, no cloud or CNC needed.
““This partnership allows us to explore the intersection of technology and public safety. We are excited to contribute our knowledge to develop a system that can make a real difference in identifying and mitigating risks associated with 3D printed firearms,””
Here, let me correct that for you to reflect factual reality:
“This partnership allows us to explore the intersection of technology and spying on the public . We are excited to contribute our knowledge to develop a system that can make a real difference in extending our fascism of marx -ist social -lism to further oppress American citizens daring to exercise a constitutional right associated with 3D printed firearms,”
then this…
“3D GUN’T is a critical tool in our efforts to ensure the responsible use of 3D printing technology… The solution not only prevents the illegal manufacture of firearms but also creates peace of mind for clients, whether they are makers, educational institutions, or businesses. With 3D GUN’T, users can oversee the management of their print jobs with the assurance that their technology misuse can be mitigated,”
And once again, let me correct that for you to reflect factual reality:
“3D GUN’T is a critical tool in our efforts to ensure the use of 3D printing technology for fascism of marx -ist social -lism… The solution not only oppresses American citizens but also creates peace of mind for fellow fascism marx -ist social -list, whether they are makers, educational institutions, or businesses. With 3D GUN’T, the oppressed can see the management of the fascism marx -ist social -list and the fascism marx -ist social -list has the assurance that the fascism marx -ist social-list technology can help maximize the marx -ist social-list agenda by mitigating the exercise of a constitutional right by Americans.”
OMG, I went to their site to tell them how I feel and guess what, looks like they either shut down or are restricting their contact form. So I sent them an email.
Software developers should be smart enough to know these tools won’t amount to anything.
Like shotspotter systems and those handy dandy AI powered weapons detection systems the maker talks big knowing it won’t work, the buyer cuts a check, the check clears, the product fails to perform.
Shyster capitalism running off the backs of fascist activists and funded by taxpayers.
3D printing was born open source and forever open source it shall remain.
I like what you are saying, but – the list of folks that don’t like home printing is long and includes gun manufacturers, FFLs, retailers and even smiths.
That is a lot of weight on the other side of the scale. There may be a scuffle.
And “pre-ban legacy printers” could appreciate…
There’s a lot of weight on the other side of the scale for media piracy as well. Trillions of dollars and multi-nation government power.
Still piracy continues unabated and undeterred. Growing even.
Even in a world of always-online post-ban printers they can be made fairly simply at home from inexpensive parts and custom firmware always appears sooner or later. Glowforge is a good example. They sell their $7,000 device as having to be always online will only operate through official channels and proprietary servers. Well, custom firmware exists that bypasses all of that.
There will always be a “normie” customer who just uses a product as designed the way it was designed to be used. The trouble with 3D printing and homemade firearms is those customers are not and never will be “normies” so they will always work to jailbreak the machine and failing that will just DIY their own printer.
I supposed this could work sort of like a child safety lock in that it will keep very young and/or very dumb children from defeating it. For anyone with half a brain these measures would only be a temporary nuisance.
I have to respectfully disagree about shot spotter and similar acoustic locating systems. It does not infringe one bit on the lawful gun owner going about their business. I want the police to respond quickly to all firearms discharges in urban areas. I would go further and say that if I ran such a system I would have it programmed for patterns of loud noises and have Cops issue tickets for vehicles with no mufflers or super loud stereos.
My point is shotspotter doesn’t work.
Just about every municipality that has purchased it abandoned it only a few years later for it being completely useless. The system is a grift.
We had the opposite problem where it worked great but all the results were in the culturally enriched neighborhoods to the point where it was obviously faulty because of racism. The tech works well enough on vehicles for pointing the gunner in the right direction for the .mil but it is expensive and not what most cities will want to deal with data or law enforcement wise.
does it detect thumb drives in envelopes?
If your printer is not connected to the internet, how can it report you ???
well, according to anti-gun inanimate non-living objects can do lots of things on their own…so I guess when you aren’t looking it could use its cell phone to call the police or sneak out to do it.
Or… it could simply refuse to work if there is no internet connection.
Cura, arguably one of the best slicers is open source.
The firmware on many printers is open source.
Many of the printers are based on the open source RepRap hardware. Any of these walled garden printers could be cannibalized for parts to make an open source printer. Probably just have to swap a board out.
This has already been attempted by a different slicer. From what I remember they’re out of business now. No one needs them, no one cares and few will use their slicer or printer firmware. The ones that do will probably be institutions and not privately held printers. Even they will probably go towards Cura because these people will likely do something stupid like try to lock you into their filament or something.
While I would argue with you on Cura being the best slicer, lol, I agree. There are so many printers, slicers, and supplies out there that this crap will never fly. It may also speak to the benefits of having a machine NOT made in America, where this crap could be inserted into the printer itself. A cheap Ender 3 clone will print a can just as easily as a Bambu X1C. It just might take a little bit longer. Or build yourself a Voron (if you are a handy sadist, lol).
Dr. J.,
Oh, yeah, I’m MUCH happier having my online (or otherwise) activities monitored by the RCCP!
I don’t want ANYONE looking over my shoulder. If my actual ACTIONS violate the law, prosecute me for the actual legal violations. I am not OK with a “Minority Report” approach to law enforcement . . . even though i am a huge fan of LAW enforcement. I’ve downloaded lots of 3D printing software – and I (cringe!) bit the bullet and paid the money to buy a commercial 3D three-axis milling machine. But what I do with those TOOLS doesn’t matter until I DO something with them, something that is actually illegal.
Making your own gun isn’t illegal (nor SHOULD it be). If I actually use a homemade gun to commit a crime, I should be prosecuted for committing a crime. The tool is irrelevant.
Not to mention that writing a slicer is something that any number of AI systems will be able to do in the very near future.
Think of this as the proverbial “canary in the coal mine” of software censorship, “Coming soon to theaters near you.”
Never ever forget that there are a LOT of nasty people in the world always looking for ways to antagonize other people. Getting their fingers into software censorship is a wet dream for them.
Meh, these are both “cloud based” printing services, i.e. software as a service, in this case 3D Printing software online. They are mainly directed toward “institutions” (governments, industry, academics, NGOs, etc). It’s the local, run on your own machine software that matters, and most of that is very open source and can be changed by almost anyone that has the patience to learn how to code.
Cura is free, open source, and does not give a crap what you print.
Who cares if statist tools exist, they can never stop the signal, mal.
This is what happens when we become dependent on computers.
I make my firearms the old fashioned way, break out someone’s pick up window.
That’s NOT a 3-d printer at the head of the article. It’s a tabletop 3-axis milling machine. Why would anybody go to an outside fabricator, with NO evident security? All 3-d printing systems that use plastic feedstock really cannot print a part subjected to the mechanical shocks found if firing a firearm. However, there are many 3-d printers that use high-strength metals that are coming out in the affordable range for home/small business use. On the large-scale end of things SpaceX has been using these 3-d printers to produce most of the part(s) for their Raptor 3 engines. Competitors thinknthe Raptor 3 is only partially assembled, nope the pictures show a complete, ready-to-fly rocket motor.
Why are these companies now accused of being “brown shirts?”
When just a few years ago TTAG and other “libertarian” sites were saying it was OK for these companies to stop people from using this information. Because these same companies were privately own.
And wanted to do business in countries with less freedom compared to the USA. So the libertarians are comfortable with tech companies stopping Americans citizens, from using their 1st amendment civil right.
In order to make $$$.
And yet at the same time.The libertarians demand we do business with communist Cuba. Or communist China.
And then they demand we stop doing business with the Philippines. Because the government there cracked down on criminal drug users. Who steal and murder innocent Philippine people.
A google/youtube update to remove ad-blockers lasts about 5 minutes.
So does any movie or series with “piracy protection”.
And these clowns seriously think they’ll stop 3D-printers with software?
Hahahahahhaha. Wait, they are serious? Let me laugh even harer. Bwahahahahahhaha.
There are several ways to stop this illegal violation of your Civil Rights…not the least of which is filing federal lawsuits against the illegal invasion of your privacy.
There is also the ability to re-flash the firmware with new code that negates the ability to spy on and illegally disseminate your private use of your property.
Can’t stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.
These companies will lose market-share. Much like Liberty Safes, you don’t attract loyal customers by violating trust.
Oh little pile of Dooley, hijack not intelligent conversations. Always remember the dumbest kids in school are Liberal Arts Majors, you know, the ones who become lawyers and run for office? Do that before you speak…
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