Ahole “judges” need to be impeached and removed!
Soon they will define compilers as “hacking tools.”
Only licensed, government-approved programmers will be allowed to own any programming tools, under penalty of law.
What are “build AR receivers?” part of an Assault Rifle?
Now lets see them enforce it.
But beware- someone hands you a thumb-drive it may be a crime now
This will still go to trial, but for now the US Governments position that the files can’t be distributed is the law of the land.
Gawd why can't people keep such simple grammar straight?
This looks like CAD/CAM files. Suitable equipment can use them in order to machine parts for such rifles.
Information wants to be free, so to speak, and if these folks’ CAD/CAM files are embargoed, someone outside the USA may produce equivalent files from scratch, perhaps even contracted by firms such as Defense Distributed. That is how computer encryption software controls were gotten around — new encryption software was produced outside the USA and imported.
In the end this is like trying to nail Jello to a tree.
Ironically, our “national security” should by definition revolve around our constitution and individual unalienable rights...
Looking at the link, it appears that part of the argument is that the files are not ITAR*-compliant. ITAR prohibits a US citizen or company from distributing arms-related information to foreign entities. If these files can be downloaded by non-US citizens, then I can see where this would be an ITAR violation.
*International Traffic in Arms Regulation
Hans the grammar NAZI says it’s “lose”, not “loose”. ACHTUNG!
Make an AK 47 receiver out of a short shovel, and you have the added benefit of the handle as a stock.
Is the appeal now running amuck?
>sigh<
~ MM ~
series?!
looses appeal?
this is hugh.
That’s exactly why the encryption program PGP was written _outside_ the USA.
DD should do the same.
Why don’t they just RELEASE it in Source, publish it in a Book so it can copied and pasted, compiled and wala the proper file is there????
See PGP Encryption.
So no distributing G code? You can learn G code on the net or at most community colleges. I taught myself to “write” it in 1975 from a set of books from Rockwell.
"The Government also vaguely asserts that imposing a prior restraint upon the domestic publication of the technical data here is justified to protect foreign relations with other countries that have more restrictive firearms laws than the United States. Inflicting domestic speech censorship in pursuit of globalist foreign relations concerns (absent specific findings and prohibitions as in Humanitarian Law Project) is dangerous and unprecedented."
That is the REAL motive behind the State Department's refusal to grant an OK and the Court's decision to not provide an injunction and the Appellate Court's majority's decision to not reverse that decision. . . the Liberal thinking that supports the Globalist Humanitarian Anti-Gun agenda. . . which trumps all Constitutional Rights.