States Pass Legislation to Peer into Your House

American Thinker ^ | 25 Apr, 2026 | Trish Randall

[MtnClimber]

It starts with a crusade against ‘ghost guns.’ It ends with government bureaucrats able to see everything you do.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house.” —James Otis, patriot.

As an American citizen, whenever legislators deploy the ever-flimsy progressive banner of “public safety,” I feel decidedly unsafe.

Newly proposed and enacted legislation targeting 3D printers and CNC machines would impose restrictions more severe than those the Supreme Court rejects for actual guns. In conjunction with restrictions on tools, states would create a category of computer source code illegal to possess.

The excuse? “Ghost guns”!

There’s abundant hair-on-fire rhetoric, even written into legislation. Washington’s recently enacted HB2320 states, “Undetectable and untraceable firearms and firearms components presents a growing threat to public safety.” The author of California’s AB 2047 testified, “These firearms are incredibly dangerous because they are not part of our regular flow, meaning they are not marked, they are not permitted, they are made in someone’s home, and we don’t even know they exist.” Not actual use, but private possession frightens this lawmaker.

Plain text on the ATF’s website states that personally manufactured firearms (PMFs) are legal to own and make, even with 3D printed components.

California, Colorado, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington lawmakers are generating restrictions on certain tools and computer code, used to create millions of items unrelated to guns every day, to thwart Americans’ attempts to make a gun it’s legal to make.

In August, Colorado will forbid using a 3D printer or CNC to make any firearm or part, along with sale or distribution of digital firearm-making instructions to anyone but a student or instructor in an approved gunsmithing program.

[Don W]

Not firearm related, but my little town wants to install water meters now, after years of just an annual fee. Not unusual, but a little odd after such a long time.

My issue isn’t the installation of a water meter, my problem with this new development is that they want this meter installed INSIDE MY HOUSE!

I am somewhat averse to having a radio emitting monitoring device installed in my basement.

The thin edge of the wedge, if you will...

[LastDayz]

Shall not infringe is beyond some peoples comprehension. Appears the commies are still entrenched in many areas of American society.

[MtnClimber]

If it was on my property I would wrap aluminum foil around their radio emitting device.

[Redcitizen]

Here’s the modern version of the jawbone of an ass.

https://www.recoilweb.com/gforces-american-jawbone-review-188892.html

[oldtech]

Had these water meters for quite awhile where I live with no real problems I can IDENTIFY. Who knows if they are accurate or what else they are being used for...??? Guess they can legally use them to overcharge for water, but they do that much of the time anyway I think. They best not be using them for anything illegal or sooner or later someone will figure that out. At that time, the city best know it’s going to hit the fan.