Making is a right,
not a permission.
Right to Make is a movement built on a simple idea: the tools of creation answer to the people who own them. The freedom to make, print, build, and repair your own things, in your own workshop, without surveillance and without asking permission first. It is how prosthetic hands, classroom models, dental crowns, aircraft parts, and the spare part that saves a machine from landfill get made. That freedom is worth defending everywhere it comes under threat.
Four things,
held firmly.
Tools belong to their owners
A general purpose machine should answer to the person who owns it, not phone home for permission. What you make in your own workshop is nobody's business until you choose to share it.
Privacy is the default
A law that can only be enforced by inspecting everything everyone makes is surveillance with a safety label on it. We argue the technology, the privacy cost, and whether the mandate can even function.
Honesty wins the argument
We state the strongest version of the other side's worry first, then show why this method fails to fix it. Every claim we publish is sourced: the bill's own text, official committee analyses, and published research.
One fabricated number would be worth more to our opponents than a thousand accurate ones are to us.
Civility is strategy
We attack arguments, never people. This movement works because it belongs to teachers, librarians, dentists, engineers, and parents. It stays that way by being the voice lawmakers cannot dismiss.
Today, that fight
is called AB 2047.
California would force state approved scanning software into every 3D printer sold and make switching it off a crime. We are not defending crime: untraceable weapons are a genuine concern, and we say so plainly. This law simply fails to stop the criminal while it watches everyone else. Punish the crime, not the tool.
And it will not be the last of its kind. What California writes, the world tends to inherit, and a growing number of laws worldwide reach for the same answer: restrictions and surveillance on creative tools themselves. Wherever a law treats the ability to make things as a threat to be licensed, watched, or filtered, that is our fight too.
Operated by Keep On Making Ltd (England and Wales), affiliated with no manufacturer, and nobody pays for placement. Supporters appear here because they signed and stood up.
Built on a petition where every signer is a real person, verified by email, by name. That is what makes the number impossible to dismiss when it reaches a lawmaker's desk.
We amplify the organizations leading the legal and legislative work, like the EFF and the makers running the AB 2047 action hub, rather than duplicating them. The movement wins together or not at all.
If you make anything,
you are one of us.