Posted on 07/01/2015 7:34:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Those handy digital blueprints that enable anyone to 3D print gun parts or even a weapon from scratch could be under threat thanks to a new proposal from the State Department.
A notice posted on June 3rd in a recent Federal Register show that some changes are being made to the International Traffic in Arms (ITAR) regulations. Hidden within the proposal, which restricts what gear, technology, and info can and cannot be exported out of the US, is a ban on posting schematics for 3D printed gun parts online. The ruling comes just a month after Cody Wilson and, his group Defense Distributed filed a lawsuit against the federal government for forcing them to remove blueprints of the “Liberator” 3D-printed gun of off their website. Wilson described the move as a violation of First Amendment Rights and believes that the new mandate is a direct response to his lawsuit.
“This is a direct action on behalf of the Obama administration to control public speech about guns on the Internet,” Wilson told FoxNews.com. “They cynically redefine any posting of any technical data to be an ‘export,’ and thereby claim that it isn't speech. It's surreal and they're getting away with it.” …
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It’s a free speech issue. I don’t think you can criminalize public data....if you make the data files public I don’t see how they can stop it.
Pikers. They can 3D print cruise missiles and their guidance systems now. Druggies will, within a few years if not now, transport recreational pharmaceuticals from caves in Mexico to caves in the US Southwest via 3D printed cruise missiles. Retail sales will be delivered by quadcopter, possibly quadcopters with fake Amazon markings as camouflage.
“They expect to put use this issue as a pretext to put spyware in every single copy of Windows, Apple and Linux operating systems.”
Yes. This. This is a political control tool. They could care less about 3D printed guns.
How? Someone owns the servers. Funny what they’ll take off line when facing a real million dollar fine and a decade in prison.
Everyone go here and download all the parts and instructions
www dot cncguns dot com
Good luck with that useless legislation.
The genie is ALREADY out of the bottle.
This is what occurred several years ago when the major music companies realized that DIGITAL meant, you could now turn ANYTHING into a file and ENDLESSLY distribute it.
Of course, the option of taking a couple of Benjamins down to the parking lot of a liquor store in a seedy part of town and asking if anyone has a gun for sale is still open.
#26 for later
Someone will figure out a way to embed the codes into porn videos.
You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
Their laws worked during Prohibition.
The laws have worked against drugs.
The laws have worked at keeping illegals out.
I am sure this law will help too.
I miss the Constitution, but it was wonderful while it lasted.
For later
Anyone know a link where you can get machined CAD/drawings rather than 3d print? I’d like to collect them all :)
They tried to do the same thing with PGP back in the 90s. Didn’t work. This won’t either.
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