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Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by stefanfisk on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:19PM (#46881416)
The could if lawmakers wanted them to. Here in Sweden potato guns are actually illegal if the potato achieves 10+ joule.
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Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by Zak on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:33PM (#46889694)
That's effectively a complete ban as a thrown potato would have considerably more energy than that. A quick web search suggests professional baseball pitchers achieve ~130J, and a potato is roughly comparable to a baseball in mass.
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Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by stefanfisk on Thursday February 05, 2026 @12:33AM (#46896052)
Yep.

I'm not saying that I'm for it, just that writing a law that bans them isn't all that hard.

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