{"id":117463,"date":"2026-06-23T16:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117463"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:47:58","slug":"117463","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117463","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shootingnewsweekly.com\/3d-printed-guns\/like-all-gun-control-measures-3d-censorware-mandates-are-doomed-to-fail\/\">Like All Gun Control Measures, 3D Censorware Mandates Are Doomed to Fail.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Assn. of 3D Printing supports the legislation in New York and California, but \u201cit\u2019s not going to work,\u201d [Chairman Bill] Decker said. \u201cIt\u2019s more of a political statement than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Criminals still will come up with ways to make guns from 3-D printers, either by altering their designs or taking their printing projects elsewhere, Decker said.<\/p>\n<p>The more aggressive the technology becomes, the more likely that it also blocks unintended items, said Rory Mir, director of open access and technology community engagement at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights group. Some harmless pipes might look like gun parts, or an S-shaped wall hanger might resemble an auto sear trigger used to modify a semiautomatic weapon into a machine gun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese sort of censorship algorithms don\u2019t work, and they wind up capturing and blocking a lot of lawful speech,\u201d Mir said.<\/p>\n<p>If print instructions are submitted for a cloud-based artificial intelligence search, it also risks the privacy of people\u2019s artistic and proprietary creations, Mir said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David A. Lieb in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2026-06-20\/new-law-takes-aim-at-guns-made-with-3-d-printers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In California and New York, a push to take aim at guns made with 3-D printers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like All Gun Control Measures, 3D Censorware Mandates Are Doomed to Fail. The Assn. of 3D Printing supports the legislation in New York and California, but \u201cit\u2019s not going to work,\u201d [Chairman Bill] Decker said. \u201cIt\u2019s more of a political statement than anything else.\u201d Criminals still will come up with ways to make guns from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,24,8,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-rights","category-rkba","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117464,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117463\/revisions\/117464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}