I get that states like New York, and governors like Kathy Hochul aren’t fans of gun ownership in general, but especially when they don’t get to have some kind of control over who gets a gun and who doesn’t. They want to be able to peer into the industry and know everything, which is why anything that removes a gun from that paper trail is a bad thing. For them, 3D printers spell doom, which is why Hochul opted to go after them.
But the truth of the matter is that the internet is a strange place, and if you’re going to live by the tweet, you will also die by the tweet.
Hochul made a post about “ghost guns,” and unsurprisingly, the internet had thoughts.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) is facing social media backlash after using an X post to pledge that printers sold in her state “will be required to include software that blocks it from printing a firearm.”
Hochul’s X post:
Ghost guns are the fastest-growing gun safety threat in the country.
They’re built in basements and garages, untraceable by design.
New York is stepping in to stop them.
Every 3D printer sold in this state will be required to include software that blocks it from printing a…
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) May 7, 2026
Here are just a few of the responses Hochul’s post received:
- “Democrats are the fastest-growing gun safety threat in the country.”
- “People will just buy the printers in another State.”
- “Have you considered banning basements and garages to stop the construction of these ghost guns?”
- “Does she realize guns aren’t generally printed only certain components so good luck with ‘software’ that can determine what is exactly being printed.”
- “Yay! Another way to control Americans…You. Are. So. Brave.”
- “Why would NY expend any resources to prevent people from exercising their Second Amendment rights? Meanwhile, you release violent criminals without bond and they repeat their crimes harming more New Yorkers. You should be ashamed.”
- “Eliminate the Gang Data Base. Handcuff Police. Provide Sanctuary to Illegal Aliens. Track 3d printers.”
And the backlash extends through post after post.
And it should.
See, the truth of the matter is that so-called ghost guns are certainly scary sounding, but the data doesn’t really back up the idea of them being some massive threat. When I wrote about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s jihad against 3D printers, I noted how few of these guns turn up, even with this massive growth in their use, especially when compared to violent crime involving a firearm as a whole.
They might be growing in number, but you’re still looking at a statistical drop in the bucket. Why the focus on that when, as one commenter noted, Hochul and her fellow Democrats have done everything they could to make things easy on the criminals? Plus, as another pointed out, this supposedly heinous threat is at a time when homicides dropped to record levels last year and, according to the anti-gunners’ favorite website, the Gun Violence Archive, they’re down significantly for this year.
The problem with so-called ghost guns is that because they exist outside of the paperwork system, there’s no way to ever step in and figure out where all the guns are. If gun confiscation ever comes on a wide scale, they have no way of knowing about those that are traded back and forth outside of a licensed dealer’s books, and because these were never on there to begin with, it’s impossible to know they even exist should such a scenario come to pass.
Will criminals use them? Yeah. Especially when the media keeps going on about how scary and dangerous they are and how criminals will benefit from them. They see stuff on social media, just like the rest of us, and they might not necessarily be the smartest of people, but they’re not that dumb. They listen and figure, “What the hell?”
Plus, we’ve got the technical aspects of how implausible their whole push is. Printers will be jailbroken within the first five minutes of the law going into effect. People will build their own printers and use software without that nonsense built in. They’ll buy them from other states. Nothing at all is going to stop the criminals.
But it’s never been about them. In fact, Hochul and people like her secretly love armed criminals, because while the laws on the books in New York already prohibit making your own gun, they know that if they go too far, people can simply load up the files, build the weapons, and go to work defending our country from our government. Stopping that is what they’re after, and the criminals just help give them an excuse.
It’s just a terrible excuse.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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