There is a company called Saw Stop which developed a safety system for table saws that detects when a finger touches the blade and applies a brake to the blade to stop the user from getting more than a minor injury.

It’s cool technology, but it’s expensive. A compact Saw Stop table saw us $900. The standard is $2,300.

Replacement brakes are $120.

If that is where this ended, I wouldn’t be posting.

Saw Stop, which is owned by the parent company for Festool, has lobbied to have the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Saw Stop like safety brake on all new table saws sold in the United States.

Currently Saw Stop is the only manufacturer of this product and therefore would have an instant monopoly.

There is also questions over how Saw Stop would enforce its patent. Saw Stop has said publicly that it would open the patent to the public if the new rule is passed, but it’s still enforcing it the meantime. So their promise is no guarantee of anything.

What this comes down to, is that their is the potential here for a rule change that would make it impossible to go to Lowes or Home Depot and buy a $99 table saw. You might have to buy a safety table saw for several times that.

I am the owner of a $99 after Holiday clearance sale Kobalt table saw. It’s great for $99.

If I had to pay $500 for it, I wouldn’t have bought it because I’d never recoup that value from my saw.

One Congresswoman seems to get this and wants to block the Saw Stop rule.

A new rule mandating finger-detection technology in table saws could raise costs by hundreds of dollars and result in a government-mandated monopoly.

I introduced a bipartisan bill to protect consumer choice and block this mandate until the patents for this tech are made public. pic.twitter.com/vQ26gCvWKG

— Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (@RepMGP) May 15, 2024

She’s right.

The internet attacked her.

we should respect the consumer's choice to have their fingers chopped off by a table saw https://t.co/gkf2QQaz3b

— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) May 17, 2024

Hi ma'am. Greatly respect your work on allowing fingers to be cut off. Thank you

— mr Biden sir youre cheugy (@LaborPal) May 16, 2024

Ah yes the “Let corporations cut off fingers” bill

— ? (@comemenism) May 15, 2024

"You should cut off your own fingers!" is quite a platform to run on.

— Jonathan Vankin (@jonvankin) May 15, 2024

you’re literally pro-fingers getting chopped off lmao

— Mike Figueredo (@HumanistReport) May 16, 2024

Fighting for the right of working-class Americans to lose their fingers! pic.twitter.com/IS7NY97sfS

— Craig Lawrence (@clawrence) May 17, 2024

This is just a sampling.

I’m absolutely convinced every single one of these people has never used a table saw.

I don’t think any if them has ever used a power tool.

These are all soft handed people who do nothing buy touch keyboards all day.

There are two important factors.

Saw Stop saws are very expensive. A portable jobsite Saw Stop Saw is $1,700. A jobsite Saw by Ryobi or Kobalt could be had for $300. Even a DeWalt is $600.

Ignoring the patent, there are embedded costs from adding circuit boards, sensors, and the electronics for the brake.

Low cost homeowner hobbyists table saws will disappear.

Businesses will have to pay out significantly more for saws.

Likely, small businesses and independent contractors will simply stop using table saws and switch to circular saws.

The reality is that most table saw injuries come from improper use. Failing to use guards or pushing tools.

Businesses, tradesmen, and hobbyists have been using table saws for years without being injured because they use them correctly .

But these doofuses know they can’t be trusted to use a saw without hurting themselves so they want safety mandated, at the expense of cost efficient saws.

They take a stance of moral superiority instead of incompetence.

People like this should be ignored, because they are the sorts of idiots who stab themselves trying to take the pit out of an avocado, they can’t run a table saw.

From the University of Washington:

Just a casual d*ath threat in the vandalism this morning at @UW pic.twitter.com/akhQb4AufM

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) May 15, 2024

We all know that they lean Jews. They call Israelis and Zionists colonizers, and the red triangle is a symbol used by Hamas propagandists to mark IDF targets in their videos.

Right now, these Hamasnicks are on campus because they live there. Once the school year ends and they leave for the summer, it will get worse.

Deat threats against Jews will metastasize into violence.

It will get bad.

Prepare for the worst.

From The Daily Mail:

Teen gunman who ‘sprayed DC neighborhood with 26 rounds from an AR-15’ is released on bail by self-confessed ‘woke’ judge

Judge Lloyd U. Nolan Jr., a self-described ‘woke’ magistrate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, ruled that Amonte Moody, 18, be released on bail ahead of his trial.

The 18-year-old allegedly peppered a street with 26 rounds while targeting a car of four people at 2:30am on April 22, with Ring doorbell footage capturing a suspect shooting wildly from the hip with the assault rifle.

Nobody was injured or killed in the shooting spree, which unfolded just over a mile from the US Capitol. Despite the chaos he allegedly caused, Nolan granted Moody pre-trial release and home arrest.

Prosecutors argued that house arrest and GPS monitoring are insufficient for keeping the community safe.

The reason for this, the USAO filing noted, is that the Pretrial Services Agency (PSA) ‘only works during normal business hours.’

Shockingly, this would mean that if a suspect violates their terms at certain times, ‘PSA only finds out about violations that occur at night or on weekends after the fact, once normal business hours resume.’

Here are some relevant photos:

That looks like a 30 round magazine, whixh are banned in DC, and short barrel abs rifle buffer tube, which makes that an SBR.

A poor, misguided youth takes an illegal SBR with an illegal high capacity magazine (in DC), attempts to murder four people, and could have killed a whole lot more through negligence, and he’s giving an ankle monitor.

You and I, on the other hand, know we’d be nailed to the fucking wall for accidentally crossing into DC from Virginia with a CCW pistol or a AR-15.

It’s absolutely crystal clear that they do not give a shit about fighting gun crime.

They don’t want people like you and I to own guns.

The two tier justice system reveals itself more and more everyday.

This happened in the Dominican Republic.

But, I will tell you as a Florida boy, this could have happened in South Florida.

Warning, very graphic.

Yes, that is his left hand that goes flying off in the first few seconds of the fight, that he goes and retrieves when it’s over.

Machetes scare the fuck out of me.

They are a useful survival tool, but that are also an extremely devastating close proximity weapon.

As a personal policy, a machete is treated like a pitbull, if it comes out and twitches near me or my family, I’m going mag dump into whoever is holding it.

Sorry for the lack of posting.

I’ve lost 5 lbs in a week on this new diet called diverticulitis.

Honestly, I haven’t wanted to do much more than sleep on a heating pad.

Hopefully it will be over soon.

Not “anti-war.”

Not “anti-Israel.”

Not “anti-Zionist.”

“Anti-Jewish”

Anti-Jewish is a demographic.

I will give her credit for her honesty, it really makes the morality of the situation crystal clear.

Let’s look at New York Senate Bill S9225.

An act to amend the penal law, in relation to the regulation of pistol converters and convertible pistols

Section 1 amends subdivision 1 of section 265.00 of the penal law, which defines “Machine-gun” and adds two new subdivisions 36 and 37 to that section to define the following terms: “Pistol converter”, and “Convertible pistol”.

Section 2 amends subdivision 10 of section 265.02 of the penal law, as added by Chapter 1 of the laws of 2013 by adding a new subdivision 11 that criminalizes the possession of any pistol converter.

1. “Machine-gun” means a weapon of any description, irrespective of size, by whatever name known, loaded or unloaded, from which a number of shots or bullets may be rapidly or automatically discharged from a magazine with one continuous pull of the trigger and includes a sub-machine gun, AND ALSO INCLUDES ANY CONVERTIBLE PISTOL THAT IS EQUIPPED WITH A PISTOL CONVERTER.

36. “PISTOL CONVERTER” MEANS ANY DEVICE OR INSTRUMENT THAT WHEN INSTALLED IN OR ATTACHED TO THE SLIDE OF A SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL INTERFERES WITH THE TRIGGER MECHANISM AND THEREBY ENABLES THE PISTOL TO DISCHARGE A NUMBER OF SHOTS OR BULLETS RAPIDLY OR AUTOMATICALLY WITH ONE CONTINUOUS PULL OF THE TRIGGER.

37. “CONVERTIBLE PISTOL” MEANS ANY SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL THAT CAN BE CONVERTED INTO A MACHINE-GUN SOLELY BY THE INSTALLATION OR ATTACHMENT OF A PISTOL CONVERTER.

If I read this correctly, any pistol that can be converted to full-auto by adding a converter is a machinegun according to this bill, regardless of whether or not it has been converted.

Since this bill is in direct response to the availability of aftermarket Glock switches, that means that every Glock is would be classified as a machinegun.

If a converter is created for other striker or hammer fired pistols, those models, too, would be reclassified as machineguns by virtue of the existence of converters.

Presumably, AR pistols would also be illegal machineguns, assuming you have a NY SAFE compliant model that’s been registered, duty to the existence of lightning links.

In the end, this bill seeks to ban the most popular handgun in America, and possibly many other models, due to the existence of an already illegal aftermarket accessory, even of your don’t own or install the accessory.

New York will probably pass it, the ensuing court fight will be where New Yorkers possibly get a reprieve.

Update:

Based on the number of comments I read, I want to highlight a piece of relevant text.

“CONVERTIBLE PISTOL” MEANS ANY SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL THAT CAN BE CONVERTED INTO A MACHINE-GUN SOLELY BY THE INSTALLATION OR ATTACHMENT OF A PISTOL CONVERTER.

“That can be converted” is the kicker.

A Glock can be converted into full auto by the addition of a switch.

That section of text makes it clear that installing a switch is not required. If the model gun can be converted by installing a switch, that is sufficient to be a machinegun.

Yes, it’s bad law. So is thr NY SAFE Act. That didn’t stop New York from passing it.