Wilson hoped to share his ballistic blueprint for free on the web. (Courtesy: Cody Wilson)
Posted on 05/07/2015 10:22:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Cody Wilson had a vision to forward the digital revolution by creating the nation’s first firearm on a 3-D printer, and, taking a page from WikiLeaks, share the blueprints with the world via the Internet in what he called the “Wiki Weapons project.” Now he is suing the federal government in hopes of keeping his dream on target - and staying out of prison.
Wilson was so taken with the idea, he dropped out of law school and designed "The Liberator," the nation’s first pistol built exclusively on a 3-D printer, consisting of 12 separate parts made from plastic and a single metal firing pin.
Within two days of publishing the blueprints on the Internet, on May 5, 2013, 100,000 people around the world had downloaded them. The goal, Wilson said, was to invalidate the government’s “unconstitutional” hold on gun technology.
“The technology will break gun control,” said Wilson, who formed the non-profit organization, Defense Distributed, with his partner, Ben Denio, in Little Rock, Ark., in the summer of 2012. “I stand for freedom.”
But Wilson’s invention also caught the attention of the State Department, which came after him with both barrels blazing. The feds claimed Wilson violated the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, which “requires advance government authorization to export technical data,” and as a result, could spend up to 20 years in prison and be fined as much as $1 million per violation. …
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ISIS TAKE NOTE
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.I think that, in this case the Feds would have to prove that (a) export controls are not an infringement, and (b) that
the peoplecannot be construed to mean humanity in general.
If it pi$$es off Chuck You Schumer, it can’t be all that bad!
Especially since the Founders’ belief was that those rights were inherent, inborn, and that writing them down in the Constitution was merely recognizing and honoring them, not granting them. Under that view, how can non-US peoples NOT have been born with the same rights?
Wilson has no idea how low and underhanded the current administration will go to remove a “problem”. Probably dispatching King Samir Shabazz to his address as we speak...
It doesn’t matter if voters or governments like what he’s doing. It doesn’t matter what the law says. It doesn’t matter if the information turns out to be good. It doesn’t matter if the information is damaging.
The truth is, “you can’t stop the signal.”
May as well pass a law saying the earth is flat and put folks in prison for demonstrating it’s not. It’s pointless.
Dear governments everywhere, welcome to the new reality.
Two words for the court - selective enforcement. There are prints and G code for many guns on the net. You can DL them and be making a “weapon” within a few minutes.
Wilson hoped to share his ballistic blueprint for free on the web. (Courtesy: Cody Wilson)
Americans were making guns and ammo long before the U.S. Constitution was penned.
1777 Sept. “24th Weather delightful. 4 or 5 shot exchanged between our [British] foraging parties
and the rebels about 9 this morning. Early this morning our pickets in the fear fired at some straggling rebels.
This township of Norrington is very rebellious.
All the manufactures about this country
seem to consist of Powder, Ball, Shot, firearms and swords.
The army halted this day.”
p474, “Montresor`s Journal”,
Volume 14 By John Montrésor, James Gabriel Montrésor
They did something similar to Galileo for demonstrating that heliocentric orbit was reality whereas Aristotle’s geocentric orbit, the dogma of the day, was untrue.
May as well pass a law saying the earth is flat and put folks in prison for demonstrating it’s not. It’s pointless. …
IIRC, Paule Revere’s Ride was about warning the people that the British were coming............to confiscate all the firearms in American colonies.......................
Maybe, maybe not. It may have been something he felt so strongly about that he was willing to give his life for it if need be.
Actually something very similar to that was done.....
Well, that’s why governments want “net neutrality” just for starters. An internet they control means an internet over which they control the content.
Not exactly true (although his post made me think of exactly the same history). Heliocentricity leads to easier cosmological math, but since any coordinate system in space is arbitrary anyway, you can't really say one is "correct" and one is not. It's not like there's a golden sphere at the origin and visible axes shooting off into space that defines the "real" coordinate system.
Excellent point.
No, it’s true. Unless one is trying to once again say that the sun orbits the earth? Nothing arbitrary about the moon’s orbit of the earth. Some things are fixed in relation to one another.
No, it depends on your coordinate system. It’s CONVENIENT to say the Earth orbits the sun, and the moon orbits the Earth, but a coordinate system could be composed in which it works the other way.
Absurd. The orbits are the same no matter the coordinate system; merely writing them as inverse does not change the actual paths.
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