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dylan604yesterday at 4:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

It's not about banning, it's about taxing. Distilling liquor without paying taxes is illegal.


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9x39yesterday at 5:08 PM

Their proposal is about getting lines like this ratified:

"No person, firm or corporation shall sell or deliver any three-dimensional printer in the state of New York unless such printer is equipped with blocking technology," https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S9005

They don't like firearms in the hands of the public.

The goal is to be an indirect ban that's hard to challenge. California has had significant success with strategies such as requiring "microstamping technology" (but it could be anything - it's just a limiting mechanism) in conjunction with an approved handgun roster to limit handgun sales in the state. This is almost certain to be a similar strategy.

marcosdumayyesterday at 4:42 PM

> Distilling liquor without paying taxes is illegal.

One can always expect the "don't thread on me" country to have some of the craziest, most intrusive rules at the most random places.

wizzwizz4yesterday at 4:40 PM

This is handled without banning glass containers.

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