no one wants guns at the airport but bullets are still detectable. Also a gcode file for cnc would look a lot different than a 3d printer file, unless you 3d mill the whole thing from a solid billet.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 11:37 AM Steffen Möller via Emc-developers < [email protected] wrote: > > > > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2026 um 18:18 > > Von: "Jon Elson" <[email protected]> > > An: [email protected] > > Betreff: Re: [Emc-developers] Washington State Bill 2321 > > > > On 1/22/26 10:03, Robert Schöftner wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, dem 22.01.2026 um 13:17 +0000 schrieb andy pugh: > > >> > https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2321.pdf?q=20260122051205 > > >> > > >> Page 2, line 17. > > >> > > >> If this passes then we would probably have no alternative but > to not > > >> allow the use of LinuxCNC in Washington State. > > >> > > >> I see no way at all for LinuxCNC to comply. But I also see no > way at > > >> all to prevent the use of LinuxCNC in Wa. > > >> > > > obviously I am not a lawyer, but IMO linuxcnc is no "machine" and > this > > > text seems to be concerned with "machines". In some sense, software > (at > > > least the source code) is "speech" and should have first amendment > > > protections in the "land of the supposed-to-be-free". cf. the PGP > > > situation ~30years ago which was classified as munitions and they > tried > > > to export-control it as such. > > > > > > This will probably be more of a problem for Tormach and in general > all > > > CNC machine tool vendors. > > > > I PITY all manufacturers of machine tools and 3D printers if this > insanity passes. What about slip-ups? How about if some machine builder > has implemented the required filter and had it tested by some agency, and > then it is found that a ghost gun part was made on that machine because the > software FAILED to detect it? What about guys who make airsoft gun parts? > Those would LIKELY be refused. I can imagine a case where a shop buys a > new machine specifically to make airsoft guns, and it refuses their > G-code. Then, they sue the manufacturer or the dealer of the machine. UGH! > > Some specs for that detection software would be nice. It is not like with > some replicator of the Enterprise where you order a gun that would then be > denied. You print multiple parts that you assemble to then resemble a gun. > I presume we all on this list can come up with a design for a gun that does > not look gun-like at all - in its parts or when assembled. Sounds like we > have a new sport - come up with the most ungunlike gun. > > Wrt subtractive manufacturing - correct me if I am wrong, but if I recall > correctly the world has handguns for some 150 years and you do not need the > CNC bits to prepare a gun, right? > > Other than finding that craze entertaining, I admit to share the worry to > have untraceable, dead-cheap throwaway-guns on the (black) market that are > non-detectable by metal detectors and unrecognizable while disassembled and > say smuggled into the airport by multiple individuals that then share a > coffee and parts while waiting for their departure. > > Steffen > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
