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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Guns are the least of it.
It’s the same challenge as trying to stop pirated media...good luck with that.
Utopian faith in government power knows no party.
They're way ahead of you bro.
Seems they've smuggled their malware in even earlier...into the boot up sectors of hard drives.
At the factory.
Remember when encryption software was converted to a stack of printed pages filling a suitcase, later to be scanned into a computer and reverted to code?
Cody Wilson made the plastic single shot .45 to prove a point. It doesn’t last for more than a dozen rounds. Printed guns are not viable, even metal printed guns, with present metalurgy. This is why Cody switchd gears and is now offering a customized mini CNC rig that machines an M16 lower receiver out of aluminum billet. This is what scares the poop out of the ATF&E. A couple hundred of these units working 24/7 could make enough unregistered and untraceable M16s to outfit an army of militias.
Next, we need Cody & Co. to come up with a portable means of jamming drone control signals, or a shoulder fired device capable of homing in on them and blasting them out of the sky. A hobby rocket fitted with guidance, control and proximity fuse would be the ticket.
Lessee... a proposal drawn up by the smartest woman alive who is flummoxed by e-mail? She's going to spearhead the attempt to put the information genie back in the bottle? lol
Better to transfer by flash drive anyway.
"Next, we need Cody & Co. to come up with a portable means of jamming drone control signals, or a shoulder fired device capable of homing in on them and blasting them out of the sky. A hobby rocket fitted with guidance, control and proximity fuse would be the ticket."
Utter idiocy on the part of the govt. Only thing that will happen is that the plans will be put on a thumb drive & walked over the US border to either Canada or Mexico & then put on a server in those countries. By the time the govt figures out what is going on the plans are all around the world .
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