California’s advancing 3D printer surveillance/kill-switch bill (AB 2047)

Why It Matters

Needs editorial pass.

Evidence

EFF “We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme” (published/updated June 26, as bill passed Assembly and heads to Senate); details on mandated “firearm blueprint detection algorithm”/print-blocking software in every sold printer by ~2028, criminalization of non-compliant open-source alternatives, recent amendments (carveouts, watered-down standards, Hollywood exception), and technocratic absurdity. High HN traction.

Signal Read

Source Trail

Daily scan: 2026-06-27

• eff.orghttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme