New York State Senator Jennifer Rajkumar sponsored State Assembly Bill A02228, which requires anyone selling a 3D printer capable of “printing a firearm or any components of a firearm” to “request and receive criminal history information.” According to Gizmodo, this gives New York State 15 days to conduct the background check and determine whether the buyer can buy the printer. The senator proposed this law on January 15, which is still being considered at the committee level.
Senator Rajkumar introduced the bill to control the proliferation of homemade 3D-printed handguns. One profile example is the Luigi Mangione case, where it’s thought that he used a 3D-printed Glock-style gun during his assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
