8 states suing Trump administration, company over 3D guns

AP ^ | 07/30/18

[Simon Green]

Eight states are filing suit against the Trump administration over its decision to allow a Texas company to publish downloadable blueprints for a 3D-printed gun, contending the hard-to-trace plastic weapons are a boon to terrorists and criminals and threaten public safety.

[DoughtyOne]

Bwa ha ha ha...

Still more people in positions of power who can’t read.

[Zathras]

We could always send them to school:
“Derek Zoolander’s School for Kids Who Can’t Read Good and want to Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too”

[Jeff Chandler]

Political judges will pop up to allow these states to sue the federal government on the grounds they want their way. Jurisdiction over the federal government will be granted to these states and that will be the law of the land for several years until SCOTUS overturns the rulings.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Rather ironic it’s the same states that issue free passes at the border to any and all.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Dutch Boy]

3D printed guns expose the futility of gun control. The harder they try to outlaw an object, the more creative the objects become. Had they focused on the actual bad guy, they would have dramatically reduced the thing they claim is their intent. But then again, gun control has never been about guns. It’s a means of control over free people.

[so_real]

"Why are you allowing dangerous criminals easy access to weapons?"

Oh how the "stupid" burns in Bob Ferguson. The "dangerous criminals" already have easy access to weapons. It's part of the "dangerous" half of "dangerous criminals". And they acquire that access "criminally", hence the second half of "dangerous criminals". The State Department simply leveled the playing field so that non-dangerous, non-criminals also have easy access -- so we can defend ourselves.

[Redwood71]

But this isn’t a problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQlQqDgcO7A

rwood

[farming pharmer]

Defense Distributed agreed to temporarily block Pennsylvania residents from downloading the plans after state officials went to federal court in Philadelphia on Sunday seeking an emergency order. The company said it has also blocked access to users in New Jersey and Los Angeles.

Excatly what VPNs or TOR like setups were made for. Take that you communist bastards!

[TexasGurl24]

They can’t stop anything.

These files have been out there for years. The genie is out of the bottle.

https://github.com/maduce/fosscad-repo/tree/master/Firearms

I love how these lunatics think that passing a law makes this magically disappear.

[FLT-bird]

More grandstanding. Political question doctrine. They’ll be thrown out of court.

[Charles Martel]

“These downloadable guns are unregistered and very difficult to detect, even with metal detectors...”

I see they've resurrected the "hard to detect" BS that goes back to the Bush 41 years, in an effort to blur the issue of home-built firearms.

[Arm_Bears]

Stop all federal dollars going to these states until the question is resolved.

See who blinks first.

[FL_Native]

Anybody with basic CAD software make an exact replica of any gun

[Regulator]

So they’re against free speech, as well as the Second Amendment?

Why bother having a Constitution? Except when it benefits your own power by allowing for your election. And the laws that say you can steal money from other people and call it “taxation”.

[Disambiguator]

Plastic guns? That gun control argument is soooo 1986.

[backwoods-engineer]

Eight states are filing suit against the Trump administration over its decision

STUPID.

This was a settlement. It can't be changed now.

[Captain Compassion]

Yep. The cat is out of the bag. The horse has left the barn.

[Svartalfiar]

These aren’t replica guns, they’re real ones that can function and fire. A few rounds at least