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it’s illegal to make a gun for personal use without a serial number in ny and ca. https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/consumer-alert.pdf htt

by kart23 8mo ago

it’s illegal to make a gun for personal use without a serial number in ny and ca. https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/consumer-alert.pdf https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/consu...

groundzeros2015 8mo ago
NY and CA have the most strict gun regulations
- namlem 8mo ago
  NJ and CA. You can't make guns at all in NJ, and you need a firearm permit to buy an airgun or bb gun.
- brewdad 8mo ago
  Combined they are home to 1 in 6 Americans so it's important info that applies to a lot of us.
RevEng 8mo ago
So it's okay to 3D print a gun as long as you have a serial number? That seems to reinforce that 3D printing shouldn't be banned, especially by blanket technical means.
- y-curious 8mo ago
  That is the essence of the weird gun laws. Take a Glock pistol as an example. The only part that has a serial number and is legally “the gun” is the thing you hold in your hand: the frame. It’s plastic and has the trigger and some parts to hold the magazine. The rest of the stuff? You can buy and overnight ship it to yourself legally with almost no regulation (as of 2026 CA requires more gun-like treatment for those parts).
  - stackskipton 8mo ago
    I just grabbed my glock to check. The frame, slide and barrel are all have serial markings and it's about 15 years old at this point.
    - y-curious 7mo ago
      Yes but nobody is forcing you to keep the parts that have markings. Those are wholly interchangeable without any paperwork required. It’s pretty weird imo
rolph 8mo ago
theres a procedural problem with this, and its apparently why the feds dont require serial number on a PMF until FFL transfer is about to occur when should you be required to serialize it? if you serialize after it is worked to the point of being a firearm, then there is a period in time, however short, when the firearm is unserialized, thus illegal, thus serializing after creation could be obscuring a crime. vs serializing before firearmhood, and you are now requireing a "hunk of metal" to be serialized because of what it MAY become in the future. and just when does a hunk of metal start becoming a firearm, the so called 80% threshold
- hahahahhaah 8mo ago
  Not really. You can just register prior. If hunk of metal doesn't become a gun do nothing.
  - rolph 8mo ago
    you have made it quite clear that you have no understanding of the issues.

by kart23 8mo ago

groundzeros2015 8mo ago

NY and CA have the most strict gun regulations

namlem 8mo ago
NJ and CA. You can't make guns at all in NJ, and you need a firearm permit to buy an airgun or bb gun.
brewdad 8mo ago
Combined they are home to 1 in 6 Americans so it's important info that applies to a lot of us.

RevEng 8mo ago

So it's okay to 3D print a gun as long as you have a serial number? That seems to reinforce that 3D printing shouldn't be banned, especially by blanket technical means.

y-curious 8mo ago
That is the essence of the weird gun laws. Take a Glock pistol as an example. The only part that has a serial number and is legally “the gun” is the thing you hold in your hand: the frame. It’s plastic and has the trigger and some parts to hold the magazine. The rest of the stuff? You can buy and overnight ship it to yourself legally with almost no regulation (as of 2026 CA requires more gun-like treatment for those parts).
- stackskipton 8mo ago
  I just grabbed my glock to check. The frame, slide and barrel are all have serial markings and it's about 15 years old at this point.
  - y-curious 7mo ago
    Yes but nobody is forcing you to keep the parts that have markings. Those are wholly interchangeable without any paperwork required. It’s pretty weird imo

rolph 8mo ago

theres a procedural problem with this, and its apparently why the feds dont require serial number on a PMF until FFL transfer is about to occur when should you be required to serialize it? if you serialize after it is worked to the point of being a firearm, then there is a period in time, however short, when the firearm is unserialized, thus illegal, thus serializing after creation could be obscuring a crime. vs serializing before firearmhood, and you are now requireing a "hunk of metal" to be serialized because of what it MAY become in the future. and just when does a hunk of metal start becoming a firearm, the so called 80% threshold

hahahahhaah 8mo ago
Not really. You can just register prior. If hunk of metal doesn't become a gun do nothing.
- rolph 8mo ago
  you have made it quite clear that you have no understanding of the issues.