The New York Gun Ban is Coming for Your 3d Printer (and more!)
June 7, 2026
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as posted by the channelNew York just became the first state in the country to order your 3D printer to scan what you make — and decide whether you're allowed to make it. It's buried in the state budget, it redefines a computer file as a "firearm product," and the software to enforce it was picked out seven months before the law existed.
I'm Leonard French, a copyright and tech attorney, and this one isn't really about guns. It's about who controls the tools you bought and paid for.
In this video I break down what New York's FY2027 budget (S.9005-C / A.10005-C, Part C) actually does — separating the law that PASSED from the scarier version everyone online is still reacting to:
The "ghost gun" that set this off — and why the new law wouldn't have stopped it
How a budget bill quietly swept in 3D printers, CNC machines, and lathes
The "convertible pistol" / Glock-switch ban and its wild definition of "common household tools"
Why sharing a gun design file is now a crime — and the safe harbors nobody's talking about
The First Amendment fight over whether code is speech (Junger, Corley, and the brand-new Third Circuit ruling)
Why engineers say the print-blocking tech literally can't work — and why the law admits it
The Manhattan DA letter that named the surveillance software before any of this was law
What this means for the rest of us: right-to-repair, open-source firmware, and who really "owns" a machine
Whatever you think about firearms, the architecture being built here is the story. If a tool can be forced to phone home for permission before it does what you bought it to do — do you own it?
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