some states have "ghost gun" legislation that affects the legality of 3d printed firearms, however what i don't understand is what's to stop someone from buying an oem gun with a registered serial number, then printing a frame for that gun and putting the serial number on the 3d printed gun? if the police run the number it's just going to return as a registered to your name?

should the law be changed so that people who already own guns and thus are legally allowed to own guns be able to make 3d printed guns without restriction as long as they don't sell it? since it seems the reason for banning ghost guns is because it allows felons and otherwise prohibited persons from legally acquiring firearms.

i've seen 3d printed guns that are basically a 1:1 replica of the real thing, if a cop somehow detected it at the range or if you're carrying or whatever, and they handle it and run the number it'll return as legitimate.

You're trying to insert some degree of rationality or logic into the thoughts and acts of gun controllers. That is your big mistake. They aren't interested in anything other than banning guns; "ghost guns" is just a scary angle they jumped on despite producing your own firearms having been legal since pretty much forever.

A machinist mills a receiver out of a solid block of steel whats the difference over the plastic one in the eyes of the law?

FPNI
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Think about how dumb the average person is.
Then realize that half of the population is dumber than that.

That's not the reason.  That's their excuse for banning them.

They want them banned, because they have no way of knowing how many there are, or where they are.  That's absolutely infuriating, for people that have a compulsion to control things/people.

Who cares what they think. Build it anyways.

This is the only right answer. ^

I got into 3d Printing so I could decide what I made, not allow some bureaucrat to make dictates that they don't understand.  

They will have to do their control thing without me or my compliance.

Because

middle 4 posts nail it


also.. what states specifically ban 3d printed recievers?  i have heard of bans on home manufacture in general but hadnt heard of printing called out.  that would be dumb imho because you can home manufacture a reciever so many ways.

Because as far as the Left is concerned, any restriction is a good restriction.
As recent events reveal, it's not even just the guns it's everything.