PLA is a poor material choice for the application but an easy one. So they might not care. I am not saying that it is dysfunctional, just not a good choice.

PLA hydrolises over time, and becomes brittle and is sensitive to UV, ie day light. It is enough to leave it in a sunny place with some glass reflection for it to soften up and deform but the worst features is probably that unlike many other polymers it tends to fail catastrophically, when it fails, ie nothing much happens until it snaps and splinters. Its impact resistance is also comparably poor.

You seem to run in doors that are open. My whole point was that 3d printing is not suitable to create the functional parts of a fire arm, and by that I mean creating it directly with 3d printing, not some helper products and I also mean for hobbyist levels. Maybe with metal 3d printing etc more is possible but that is neither easy nor cheap nor readily available in anyone’s basement. It is easier to get your hands on a CNC and probably cheaper too.

If your argument is that for what 3d printing can be used, it is a fairly easy method and can enable cost effective low number production, yes it can. So yes, if you will, then it has made it more accessible for those things. If someone want to regulate private firearm construction however, just regulate private firearm construction. Don’t outlaw open 3d printers, CNCs or if we are at it, woodwork tools.

Interesting read. I did not know about the honestly horribly ineffective (if not outgright dysfunctional) legislation in much of the US in this regard. I was however having functional arguments in mind though. The functional core components of a Glock are not made from organic polymers, for a reason.

Yes, printing the frame of a firearm is perfectly feasible. But if you don’t know your tool and its materials, you are putting yourself at risk. It is really like with all those other tools that can produce such a frame just as well. But then, if you say most people print it with PLA you might have a strong point that most people 3d printing that don’t know what they are doing or don’t care about PLA’s serious limitations for that application, and do it anyway.

PS: I wouldn’t consider using a 3D printed jig … and ECM as a part being produced by 3d printing. A helper part is for producing it by other means is 3d printed. Again, plenty of alternative methods to do so. Are they all going to be restricted?

Technicalities are important. Parties can campaign on that and peopld vote on it but there us no obligation, only majorities in Parliament. Things like that, the letter of thff es law start to matter especially during constitional crises.

Trump is nervous about the mid terms for a reason. His agenda of dismantlig state institutions, rule of law and democracy could run into a dead lock with an actively hostile legislative.

It is literally his job description to do so.

Still these votes are for Parliament/MPs on the ballot, not the prime minister directly, aren’t they. Yes, parties will campaign with a certain perdon as prime minister in mind, but that position is not directly elected, is it?

Trump can only rule by executive orders because the other institutions let him and majd no fuss. Things would get a whole lot mire diffucult for him if the majority in the legislative actually did make a fuss about it.

Hungary did not elect a prime minister, it elected a parliament. The new govnernment incl the prime minister is just a consequence of parliamentary majorities, which changed.

The US is an odd one, as it elects just a part if its legislative but it does elect that part nonetheless. While that won’t push the US president out if power, it could turn him into a lame duck. The destruction of the US democracy and state institutions relies on the legislative being complicit and staying silent.

What? Hungary can’t turn its economy on its head overnight? No kidding. Of course economic dependencies can’t change over night. The important thing is that the a correcting course is set. With political will, things can change dramatically in a few years.

Creating unrealistic expectations and then crucify them for not meeting those on the first day, is just a way of being useful idiot for Putin.

The prime purpose for those loans is spending on European defense products. That is also part of the loan criteria.

What a load of nonsense.

Targetting commercial offers would not cut it though. They would have to make octoprint, open source firmware etc a crime. A lot of printer run exclusively on non-commercial software and on Chinese control boards, with or without raspberry pi.

What is next? That CNC with custom firmware is becoming a crime as well? Woodwork equipment as well?

If it is so obvious, you could easily show me a source with the number of victims of 3d printed fire weapons, legally owned commercial fire weapons and illegally owned commercial fire weapons, in California or the US as a whole.

Or were you commenting on the suitability of FDM or resin printers for producing critical function parts of fire weapons? Which of the parts one could produce via FDM or resin, that couldn’t be produced with subtractive manufacturing methods? Please elaborate with actual arguments.

I mean he is not lying here for once. Orban was one of the EU leaders who was doing everything he could to undermine and prevent European sovereignty and make us all colonies to foreign powers, or further fortify that position. The US and Russian regime liked that.

Fair, however, the point remains, that the whole 3D printers are dangerous weapon manufacturing sources is BS. 3D printers, at least those affordable to hobbyists are a damn poor choice for creating fire weapons. Yes, you can print some non-critical parts but that’s about it. How many people died due to 3d printed guns in the US and how many to legally/illegally owned?

Budapest is great, Fidesz has lost control over the city government also already a good while ago.

In a way it is a mix of Prague (Buda) and Vienna (Pest).Unlike in Prague the castle district was heavily damaged in WW2 though. Budapest is probably the edgiest city of the triade Prague-Vienna-Budapest. Unlike Vienna it does feature a beautiful river front at the Danube and of course its spectacular Parliament building and of course its famous historic baths. Nightlife is probably the best of the three.

My bad. That was obly Tiktok in the OS. So it is under Chinese control. Either way Russian propaganda is ever oresent there.

Magyar? No.

All three of them are controlled by US tech oligarchs that are closely aligned with the US regime which was heavily interfering in favour of Orban as well. As far as I know you were flooded in all three with Fidesz propaganda and disinformation. Never mind that Russian propaganda is strong in all three of those as well and it was doing the same.

I find it entertaining to think that corrupt politicians would be bound to the US. Take the corrupt AfD, its leading candidate for the EU election was corrupted by not one but several foreign powers. By all means, they appear to sell out German interests to pretty much any foreign power that is willing to pay enough.

The European Commission is way less powerful in the EU context than any national government in the national context. It is one of the major players but only one of a handful and cannot do much without the support from other players.

You seem to have a funny definition of “dysfunctional” or confuse the term with “politically shortsighted”. Europe did have a relationship with the US that was beneficial to both sides, that was the basis of it and the reason it worked for so long. This has ended, one could have seen it coming much earlier and indeed France has seen it coming for a long time and is therefore also one of the best prepared member states but even France has been complacent when it comes to modern IT infrastructure. That has little to do with being dysfunctional.

I am wondering if you are really that naive and truly believe that Putin ever intended to see the EU member states as equal partners. His rhetoric have changed indeed his goals not really, at best his means have become increasingly bloody and ruthless. If you can’t see that Russia wants to rebuild its colonial empire in Europe I really can’t help you. And if you can’t see that colonial empires are based on oppression and exploitation I can’t help you either. Maybe read how the old East Block worked economically, communist economy aside it was just the same old story.

You really seem to believe the US to be all powerful apparently. This has little to do with reality and lies at odds with the actual EU legislation which is often at odds with what the US would like. Does the US have influence? Of course it has but it is not nearly as total as you seem to believe and it is rooted in Europe’s dependence. I listed a boat load of initiatives that are being undertaken right now to reduce those dependencies for that very reason. Most of them are something the US opposes to varying degrees (from mildly to hysterically). If your world view held any water, hardly any of those would exist.

European unification happened of course in the context of “PAX America” but it was formed by the interests of many players. The fading away of the Western European Union was certainly a consequence of US opposition for example. That does not change the fact that a unified Europe within the EU is the only realistic chance for European autonomy and shared sovereignty without being vassals of either the US or Russia, which is as I said, the key reason why the US and the Russian regime are firing with all their propaganda might against the EU nowadays and you appear to have completely fallen for it.