Posted on 05/10/2013 9:37:36 AM PDT by BerserkPatriot
A few days after the blueprints for the world’s first printable gun were published online, Defense Distributed has been asked by the State Department to pull them down, citing possible arms trafficking violations. The blueprints, however, are still available on The Pirate Bay and many other file-sharing sites, which adds a 3D chapter to the IP enforcement debate.The Pirate Bay says it welcomes the blueprints and has no intention of taking the files down.
Enter DEFCAD, a site dedicated to hosting designs that have been banned at Thingiverse. Namely, the entirely printable 3D gun design which clocked up more than 100,000 downloads within its first two days of release.
This did not sit well with the Department of State Office of Defense Trade Controls who kindly requested that DEFCAD remove the availability of the 3D printable gun documents, enthusiastically named “The Liberator,” citing a possible violation of International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
In the letter from the State Department, which can be read in full at Forbes, the Government explains that it wants to review whether the designs are in compliance with arms export control laws. ... While DEFCON promptly complied with the request to remove access to the design, it was shared so widely during the short window of availability that it is now virtually impossible to prevent any further distribution. Currently, there appears to be several torrents available for the design at The Pirate Bay and the site informs us that these will not be censored.
“TPB has for close to 10 years been operating without taking down one single torrent due to pressure from the outside. And it will never start doing that,” A Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak.
(Excerpt) Read more at torrentfreak.com ...
It is probably the same laws that restrict exporting missle technology and such. The law probably directly lists data files as technology that is included in the law. But the problem is not the law, it’s the misapplication of the law. It will probably go all the way to the supreme court and who know how they will rule.
In the meantime, the files will exist and will be sent around the world.
Liberal cities will soon have ‘buy backs’ - I think I’ll print our several copies ;o)
Now, that’s creative.
We need more and better gun files. Is there one for a 9mm Sten?
I couldn’t find one
Not with that hi-cap magazine I printed out to go with it.
“How about a Hoy?”
Link didn’t work for me. Can you get me the info some other way?
I can pull up a discussion forum on which the guys have been talking about the Hoy rifles and the Hoy family, if only very briefly.
Just google: Hoy rifle
You’ll see there the forum listed as Americanlongrifles.org but that seemed to be the link I couldn’t get to work on FR.
If I remember right I also googled Patrick Hoy, who was apparently the guy who was making the rifles back in the early 1800s. Interesting story, IIRC, he had some farm ground and a mill but turned to gunmaking after a flood wiped him out.
Somewhere I think I saw a photo of one of the rifles too, or maybe just the barrel...
Sorry to be of so little help here but I can’t take time right now to dig it up again...good luck
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