Posted on 09/12/2018 5:38:34 AM PDT by marktwain
A Seattle court prevented Cody Wilson from publishing 3D files on the Internet for free. Wilson obeys. Now he sells the 3D files in thumb drives instead.
Cody Wilson, while complying with a court order requiring the State Department to retreat from a First Amendment legal settlement, has taken another route showing the irrationality of the court decision.
Here is a brief history of this interesting, if silly, attempt to stop the flow of information.
In 2013, Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed showed the technical potential of using 3D printers to make a simple, plastic, one shot pistol. They called it the Liberator. They released the files on the Internet, for free. Shortly after, the State Department ordered them to stop distributing the files on the Internet. The State Department, under President Obama, argued that distribution of the information on the Internet was an illegal exportation of controlled munitions.
In 2015, Defense Distributed sued the State Department for violating their First Amendment rights.
In 2018, under the Trump administration, the State Department, realizing they would lose the lawsuit, decided to settle with Defense Distributed. They admitted releasing the files on the Internet were not an illegal exportation of munitions.
Furious proponents of population disarmament went judge shopping. They found a compliant Senior District judge in Seattle. He ordered a temporary injunction against the settlement, then made the injunction permanent. His arguments are unlikely to stand on appeal. They delay the exercise of Cody Wilson and
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
I looks like we only oppose prior restraint when it could save a Republican President.
Before the thumb drive you could buy a bench top CNC machine pre-loaded with the code for an aluminum AR lower. The laws are pretty absurd.
Just have someone in another country post it.
Umm... Cody could post the files on a server in Botswana and someone could access them from East Cupcake New Hampshire through an ISP in Lichtenstein. How will anyone enforce the ruling of this idiot judge?
The entire thing has become Kabuki theater anyway, all the files are already out on the internet and easily accessible on thousands of sites with a few mouse clicks from when they were put up on the Defense Distributed website for a few hours before the Judge ordered them removed. So basically the judge is pretending she managed to prevent them from being release, and Cody Wilson is likewise pretending the files aren’t already out there to comply with the court order. Like I said Kabuki theater....
Correction: the files have been available for _years_, since before the export prohibition.
The stupid part is how hard it still is to “print” a single-shot small-caliber short-lived pistol. All this hysteria over borderline garbage. I know a competent guy who is trying to print a Liberator, and it’s going badly. This is barely proof-of-concept stuff, not the feared “push button, get a Glock”.
Know your Judge: Appointed to the Federal Bench by Bill Clinton.
“Born in Staten Island, New York, Lasnik received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Brandeis University in 1972 and a Master of Science in journalism from Northwestern University in 1973, a Master of Arts in education also from Northwestern University in 1974, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law in 1978.”
Just another East Coast Capo “transplant!”
You have to love watching judicial stupidity in action. Judges are meant to enforce laws not make them up.
You mean, they told him not to post THIS?
Piss OFF the LEFTIST Censors. FREE 3-D printed gun blueprints here, so download all 10 or so!
https://www.CodeIsFreeSpeech.com/
Cody Wilson is playing these leftist authoritarians like a concert pianist.
All of this does more to spread the message and make it popular than anything he could have done by himself.
Off topic.
You were great on Bill Frady’s radio show last week. Well done.
I will be on tonight at 5 pm mountain standard time.
Thanks for the kind words.
Nice. I’ll catch it on the podcast. I’m working all night tonight.
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