New York Official Warns Against 3D-Printed Guns, Cites State Safety Record

You can tell Cody I will get ahead of him next. I can’t always be on the forefront when I see someone intentionally thwarting a law. It is the law that you cannot have 3D-printed guns in the state of New York. And if you think it’s okay to have someone in their kitchen who may have severe mental health problems who wants to shoot up kids in your school, make a ghost gun at their kitchen table or create a munitions factory where there was none, with no regulations, no background checks, no nothing, and people broadcast that as if it’s a proper thing to do is challenge me on that, then I say go for it. Because you’re trampling in the wrong space.

It’s not ideal, but I also didn’t think it was a smart idea for people to manufacture weapons of mass destruction at their kitchen table and kill kids. So I’m going to be the one who says no. I’d rather have the regulation that protects and prevents it. Use 3D printers for any kind of good. You can make all kinds of things with 3D printers. It’s not a ban on 3D printing. It is a use that is illegal because you cannot have a gun in the state of New York without having had a background check, having regulation, having it registered. We have all kinds of rules, which is one of the reasons why we are one of the safest states in America. Lowest gun homicide deaths in America. It’s extraordinary, because the rules are working. So not everyone loves rules. I get it. This is not the wild west. This is New York. We’re going to do it right.