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”.
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.