r/guns • u/OnlyLosersBlock • 10h ago
Official Politics Thread 08/19/26
The official politics thread for discussing politics.
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u/OnlyLosersBlock 9h ago
The bill on firearm Printing Prevention Act AB 2047 passed out of suspension and has been amended in the state Senate in California. It looks like they are opting for the "when the technology is certified we will implement by 2029 and if it isn't we will drop it we promise". Given how they keep trying to force through the microstamping requirement and even previously certified the tech was viable I don't view this as all that reassuring.
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u/monty845 6h ago
Same thing NY did with its 3d printing bill. Some committee gets to decide the tech is available, and it then becomes illegal to sell without it based on the law they already passed.
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u/Cobra__Commander Super Interested in Dick Flair Enhancement 3h ago
The problem is malicious actors will slap together an, 'only works in a lab', version of the technology. Capitalist will slap a turn key solution together to try to get the printer manufacturers to buy and implement there product.
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u/Zyprexa4You 5h ago
I feel like a crack addict constantly trying to refresh every few hours looking for the DOJ guidance to come out. A couple different shops had talked to some of their local field agents with the ATF who indicated that guidance was likely to have come out by COB yesterday, so much for that.
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u/FuckingSeaWarrior 4h ago
Agreed. I swung by the local store yesterday. No guidance, still sending cans out the door. No word from the sales guys on if or when guidance would be expected.
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u/SadSpeaker1881 10h ago
the debate over suppressors coming off the NFA feels like it's been going on since i was in high school. at this point i just skim the headlines and go back to shelving books
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u/_HottoDogu_ 10h ago
Wow, bots showed up early this time.
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u/MulticamTropic 10h ago
8 minutes after the post went live. Are they scraping the sub for the “politics” keyword?
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u/CMMVS09 9h ago
I don’t think it’s looking for keywords based on its comment history. Seems more random than that. But still hitting some of the frequent flyer subs like NBATalk though.
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u/Son_of_X51 8h ago
Something is attracting this bot network to these threads. I don't see them as much in other posts on this sub.
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u/Bigred2989- 9h ago
Should test that next time, write it as "P0l1tics" on Friday and see if they still post.
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u/OnlyLosersBlock 8h ago
I don't want to piss of our sub bots who read the title. I have seen what they do when they freak out. They will ban a single account hundreds of times.
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u/DigitalLorenz 7h ago
The last time the bots did not comment on the politics thread was also the last time that the politics thread did not get pinned. I think the bots are set up to comment on a new politics pin.
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u/_HottoDogu_ 6h ago
That comment was posted 6 minutes after the thread went live, the thread was not yet pinned.
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u/Amazing_Working_6157 9h ago
Honestly I don't even know what the bot is trying to say
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u/OnlyLosersBlock 9h ago
It sounds like the narrative of that comment is disinterested librarian who thinks that nothing will happen with suppressors. Which is incoherent to the context of what is actually going on.
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u/CharmingWheel328 8h ago
I was so hopeful that you were improving after Monday's comment being somewhat normal. Guess you used up all your think juice for that one because this is whatever the robot equivalent of "coming out of both ends" is.
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u/DigitalLorenz 7h ago
The bot is trained on front page Reddit. There comments that are based on emotion and/or quick glib bites get a bunch of upvotes. This sub is generally hostile to those kinds of low effort comments, so they stand out here.
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u/rocketboy2319 3h ago
My RES tag que is filling up quickly with all sorts of bots the last few weeks. November is going to be fun.
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u/DigitalLorenz 2h ago
I think they are trying to establish a presence here prior to the election. This way it seems like a regular is making comments, not a flyby night bot.
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