Making your own guns has been legal in the United States since before it was the United States. Our colonist ancestors built their own guns all the time, buying pieces they couldn’t manufacture themselves, then assembling them in their home workshops or even on their kitchen tables. They built guns because that was just one of the ways you could get one, especially if you didn’t live near a gunsmith.
And through the years, building your own firearms has remained legal, at least up until recently. Politicians and the media started screaming about “ghost guns” and how they were untraceable. 3D printers became common, and people started using them to make their own guns, which bothered even more people.
One of those is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
He has a dream, and he’ll tell it to anyone who will listen.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said he plans to push for a nationwide crackdown on 3D-printed firearms, building on legislation he’s promoted to New York state lawmakers in recent years.
Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled the proposal during her 2026 State of the State address on Tuesday. It would require 3D printers sold in New York to include technology that blocks the unlicensed production of firearms and gun parts. It would also make it a crime to possess, sell or distribute digital blueprints for printing illegal guns.
Bragg, who recently became head of Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, a national advocacy group, said Wednesday he hopes to bring the effort to other states and “blanket the marketplace.”
“Think of a world where you can’t buy a printer that prints a 3D gun,” Bragg said during a CityLaw Breakfast event at New York Law School. “We don’t then have to do the enforcement cases.”
Bragg doesn’t believe that.
He can’t believe that. He literally can’t be that stupid. I know he can’t because he’s still able to muster enough brainpower to breathe. Only someone lacking in that basic minimum could actually believe that there’s literally no way someone can get around software that tries to limit the components they can print with their own printer.
As for a world where you can’t buy a printer that prints gun components, we know that’s Bragg’s dream, but it’s actually a nightmare.
Imagine, if you will, a tyrannical regime that has made gun ownership practically non-existent except for a select elite. They oppress the people with their particular flavor of authoritarianism, then, when people rebel, they slaughter them. They do that because the people there are unarmed and unable to fight back.
Oh, wait, you don’t have to imagine that. It’s happening in Iran right now.
I don’t know if 3D printers there can make guns or not, but I know US export laws make it so we can’t lawfully send them the files if they can.
I don’t know about you, but I have no interest in a world where we can’t 3D print our own guns.
Moreover, what about milling machines and metal lathes? Someone with the know-how can use those to make a gun. Hell, the much-maligned Ghost Gunner is nothing but a CNC mill optimized for making gun receivers. Someone with a CNC mill made for more general purposes could easily use that to make them, too.
Is Bragg going to outlaw those? Will he demand that those manufacturers put in software to prevent them from making those items, too?
What about regular mills? Anyone with the know-how can build a receiver with just that. They don’t need CNC. What about that, Mr. Bragg?
But the stupid continues.
The effort is part of Bragg’s broader push to target the systems that enable gun violence, not just individual offenders. He likened the proposed restrictions to existing limits on home printers, which can’t produce counterfeit currency.
The difference is that private citizens can’t own counterfeit currency lawfully anywhere in the country.
What Bragg wants to do is pressure the industry to prohibit us from building guns throughout the nation, despite it still being legal in most states. He wants to circumvent the need for a law by making it a practical impossibility unless you know how to jailbreak your printer. He wants to inflict New York’s will on the rest of the nation regardless of what the people of the other states want.
And people wonder why we need things like the electoral college, the non-proportional representation of the Senate, and other measures to prevent the tyranny of the majority.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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