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US State Department Halts 3-D Gun Production: Demands Removal Of All Online Blueprints
Three days ago, in an article that looked at the convergence of 3-D printing and the 2nd Amendment, we presented "the Liberator" - the world's first fully 3-D printed firearm. The name was aptly chosen because courtesy of its creator, 25-year old UofT law student Cody Wilson, and his non-profit group Defense Distributed, its online blueprint and assembly instructions liberated "anyone to be able to download and print a gun with no serial number, in the privacy of their garage" in effect completely circumventing any gun control/distribution laws, background checks and other regulatory hurdles of an increasingly authoritarian government. In fact, we were counting the number of days before some US Federal agency would come knocking on Cody Wilson's door and involved that other key Amendment - the First, by either "disappearing him" or politely enforcing a permanent Cease and Desist of all production, including, of course, the removal of all online "liberating" blueprints. We didn't have long to wait - it took just one week.
As Tech Crunch reports, "the State Department has demanded that new blueprints for a fully 3-D-printed gun be taken offline just a week after they were posted. The Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance is forcing outspoken Second Amendment crusader Cody Wilson to remove the downloadable 3-D printer files from Defcad.org under expert laws known as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)."
"Until the Department provides Defense Distributed with final [commodity jurisdiction] determinations, Defense Distributed should treat the above technical data as ITAR-controled,” reads the State Department order, seen below in its entirety.
Specifically, the Dept of State claims that under "ITAR, it is unlawful to export any defense article or technical data for which a license or written approval is required without first obtaining the required authorization from the DDTC. Please note that disclosing (including oral or visual disclosure) or transferring technical data to a foreign person, whether in the United States or abroad, is considered an expoert under [ ] ITAR." And since by implication this means that all the data can be seen by at least one foreigner, "this means that all such data should be removed from public access immediately."
Naturally, Cody would be stupid to fight the US government on this one, which is why he won't. "We have to comply" he told Forbes.
However, courtesy of the magic of the internet, taking down his files does nothing for the some 100,000 downloads of the entire blueprint set, distributed among various nodes, and are now held, in one instance, in Kim Dotcom's offshore New Zealand servers, where not even the long hand of John Kerry can reach. And just as a backup, the files have also been uploaded to the decentralized bittorrent database, Pirate Bay.
More interesting will be whether the PGP case study of anti-Big Brother retaliation applies in the Liberator case. As TechCrunch explains:
According to Forbes’ Andy Greenberg, Wilson sees parallels between his strife and the governments abandoned attempts at censoring military-grade encryption software. In the 1990s inventor Phil Zimmermann released software, PGP, so difficult to crack that it could have permitted malicious actors from hiding information from law enforcement. Wilson believes public pressure ultimately convinced the government to back off of Zimmermann.
It’ll be interesting to see whether the government has any actual power to prevent the propagation of 3-D gun blueprints.
Since the libertarian community is quite adept at bypassing the tyranny of an encroaching despot, it has already made the pre-banned files widely available to anyone who wishes to access them. The links, courtesy of SHTFplan.com, are below:
- Pirate Bay torrent download information: http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/8449468/Liberator_-_First_3D_Printable_Gun
- Or at: http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/8444391/DefDist_Liberator_Pistol
- ZIP FILE: http://www.fatguyinmontana.com/2013/05/07/defense-distributed-liberator-pistol/
- You’ll also need a 3D printer – the Cube 3D printer is available for retail purchase from Staples at a cost of $1299.
Finally, as a warning to those who wish to take the Federal government head on in what appears to be its attempt to regulate decentralized gun creation, SHTFplan also presents the following warning.
An administrator at the DefCad forums posted the following warning regarding the government’s takedown and the current status of The Liberator and 3D firearms based on its plans:
I’ll be bringing in legal authority and FAQ, but for now, if you are not a registered FFL/SOT:
1. DO NOT print a completely polymer firearm capable of firing a bullet (barrel inserts or no), as you will likely create anNFA regulated firearm. Specifically, you will likely create an AOW zip gun.2.
DO NOT print a completely polymer firearm capable of firing a bullet (barrel inserts or no), as you will likely violate the so-called Undetectable Firearms Act.
Not listening to items 1 and 2 means you are on your way to committing a Federal crime. Because of the public profile and interest over this kind of activity at the moment, you WILL be made an example of. You WILL go to federal prison, and you WILL never be able to own a firearm again.
The full State Department Letter, signed by Glenn Smith, Chief of the Enforcement Division, demanding the removal of the 3D gun blueprints is presented below.
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The Feds are not even sure if the Liberator meets ITAR standards... but they still demand it be removed from DEFCAD. Welcome to America... where you are guilty until proven innocent.
Might as well ban printing presses, or the internet...
Oh wait!!
How have they gone after this but not Bitcoin (yet) is what i dont get???
FORWARD !!!
Two quotes seem appropriate:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
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"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
It's funny, you know? "Shall not be infringed." How much more clear can it be?
It really depends upon what the meaning of the word is is.
so much for the first and second amendnment.
The guy pushing this seems pretty well informed and very convincing on the issue. It's a game-changer to be sure, can't wait to see how .GOV sorts this one out.
Cody Wilson & GB: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwkX8sWSxNQ
AJ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yeh6K7vPCOU&feature=player_embedded
Long Peerblock!
How dare this kid make something for free that cannot be taxed or otherwise fit into our paradigm of for-profit copyright law!
Bureau of Political Military Affairs
Fascinating.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
This is where people just don't get it and where .gov has everyone doing a brain fart. See, it's that "WELL RUGULATED MILITIA" part that's forgotten and shoved into the corner. People should be trained in the use of firearms and organized so when some ass hole walks into a Burge King with the inent of killing a bunch of citizens... but wait, every mom and dad is packing a 40 cal and KNOWS HOW TO USE IT. OOPS! Time to go to Mac Donalds.
And that, ladies and germs, is why the government is afraid. Once the Sheeple become a Well Regulated Militia it's check mate.
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
-- Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
What the Founders meant by 'Militia':
Tenche Coxe: “Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American… The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.” – Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
Tench Coxe: “Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American… [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.”, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
Tench Coxe: “As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.” in “Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution,” under the pseudonym “A Pennsylvanian” in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789.
Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts: “Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.” (spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789.)
Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts: “What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty.” Rep. of Massachusetts, I Annals of Congress at 750 (August 17, 1789).
Alexander Hamilton: “…that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.” (Federalist Paper #29)
Alexander Hamilton: “Little more can be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped.” (Id) {responding to the claim that the militia itself could threaten liberty}” There is something so far-fetched, and so extravagant in the idea of danger of liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or raillery (mockery). (Id)
Alexander Hamilton: “The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious, if it were capable of being carried into execution. A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it. To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss. It would form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country, to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the people, would not fall far short of the whole expense of the civil establishments of all the States. To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent, would be unwise: and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured. Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No.2
Patrick Henry: “The people have a right to keep and bear arms.” (Elliott, Debates at 185)
Patrick Henry: “Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?, 3 Elliot Debates 168-169.
Patrick Henry: “The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.” 3 Elliot, Debates at 386.
Thomas Jefferson: “And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms… The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”, letter to William S. Smith, 1787, in S. Padover (Ed.), Jefferson, On Democracy (1939), p. 20.
Thomas Jefferson In his Commonplace Book, Jefferson quotes Cesare Beccaria from his seminal work, On Crimes and Punishment: “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
Thomas Jefferson: “A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.” Encyclopedia of T. Jefferson, 318 (Foley, Ed., 1967).
Thomas Jefferson: “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”, Proposal for a Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed. 1950)
Richard Henry Lee: “To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…” (LIGHT HORSE HARRY) LEE, writing in Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic (1787-1788)
Richard Henry Lee: “A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves…and include all men capable of bearing arms.” (Additional letters from the Federal Farmer, at 169, 1788)
President James Madison: “…to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the States and to the people as equally incorporated with and essential to the success of the general system;… to keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics – that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe;…” – President James Madison, First Inaugural address, Saturday, March 4, 1809.
James Madison: “A WELL REGULATED militia, composed of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.” (1st Annals of Congress, at 434, June 8th 1789, emphasis added.
James Madison: “As the greatest danger to liberty is from large standing armies, it is best to prevent them by an effectual provision for a good militia.” (notes of debates in the 1787 Federal Convention)
George Mason: “I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.” (Elliott, Debates, 425-426)
Thomas Paine: “The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside… Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them…” I Writings of Thomas Paine at 56 (1894)
William Rawle: “In the second article, it is declared, that a well regulated militia is necessary to a free state; a proposition from which few will dissent. Although in actual war, in the services of regular troops are confessedly more valuable; yet while peace prevails, and in the commencement of a war before a regular force can be raised, the militia form the palladium of the country. They are ready to repel invasion, to suppress insurrection, and preserve the good order and peace of government. That they should be well regulated, is judiciously added. A disorderly militia is disgraceful to itself, and dangerous not to the enemy, but to its own country. The duty of the state government is, to adopt such regulation as will tend to make good soldiers with the least interruptions of the ordinary and useful occupations of civil life. In this all the Union has a strong and visible interest.” – William Rawle, “A View of the Constitution of the United States of America” (1829)
Joseph Story: “The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people.” – Joseph Story. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. 3 vols. Boston, 1833.
Joseph Story (Supreme Court Justice): “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic…”
Sir George Tucker: “The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits…and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.” – Sir George Tucker, Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court and U.S. District Court of Virginia in I Blackstone COMMENTARIES Sir George Tucker Ed., 1803, pg. 300 (App.)
George Washington: “A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
Ms. Erable
Outstanding quotes. I'm stealing.
Holder has ordered all 3D weapons to be taken offline immediately.....and sent to Mexico.
Real sorry but I'm afraid that cat's outta the bag Amigo.....The next improved generation is about to released.....disguised as porn.
Word is there's a million geek march on DC planned with fully armed thumb drives.
Since when does the State Department have any authority over guns?
The fucking tyrants are completely out of control. Time to call it what it is...
treason.
hmm..
let's just hope this kind of dangerous thing does not produce something that is suppressed and select fire.
Too late, it's already on a 100,000 plus computers around the world. It's a beautiful thing.
The proper response for Defense Distributed (and everybody who cherishes liberty) is "FUCK YOU!", proceed normally, ignore their edicts, make them come with guns drawn and let everyone see it...then stand with them and defy them! They have no authority, our rights cannot be nullified by legislation or decree...we have the power, and it is well past time they get the message loud and clear.
That's good in theory, but in practice they would come with guns drawn and the media would paint him as a trouble maker, printing untraceable guns for bad guys to use against your children, etc. The masses would cheer the victory and life would go on. It's sad, but you know it's true.
Personally, I have no problem with what this guy is doing, and my only concerns for public safety on the topic have to do with the operator of a 100% plastic (less the firing pin) gun.
well, actually, by the LAWS we have allowed them to create, they can now 'regulate' the arms (aka weapons of offence) that we have....
sorry, this is a consequence of electing poor leaders. nothing else. if you want to blame someone, look in the mirror and then start speaking to truth to your friends, relatives and neighbors.....that is where it has to start (again).
damn internet/computer...double post. it is Bush's fault.
If people had an understanding of maker culture they would know what this means. To makers this is a clock.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Lamina-Nixie-Clock/
and this is interesting.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Autonomous-Paintball-Sentry-Gun/
#41
that clock is freaking beautiful
my addition:
There is only ONE reason why govts attempt to disarm the people:
They intend to do to them what would otherwise get them SHOT.
Just so you know, the last direct download count on piratebay was 5.7M a few minutes ago, and the two torrents up and running have a steady 1600 to 1800 peers seeding away the zip file that takes mere seconds to save.
Streisand effect, when will they learn
And since it's PirateBay we're not EXPORTING we're IMPORTING. The Federales letter was all about exporting to foreigners.
Pop the link into a word or excel file and start emailing it to all on address lists.
Here´s a bit of background for those interested. Doesnt seem like TPB is intent to budge to pressure any time soon:
https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-takes-over-distribution-of-censored-...
And my won't we all just hoot and roar about the 2nd Amendment when someone takes an printed undetectable gun on a plane and flies it into a tall building in New York...
Again. Because it's their right isn't it...
Well done for saving this vital and very important information from the grasp of the evil empire and putting it in the public domain. Good one.
I'm not sure what good it would do to fly a gun into a building, but, whatever. Douche.
Ha ha ha ha ha... Tosser.
Wanna stop terrorism? First step: Stop supporting Israel. Second: There isn't a second step.
Now that's not strictly true is it?
One word for you: Mossad. What does the word deception mean to you? Because that is these people's specialty. Framing up an enemy is old hat.
The terrorism has nothing to do with supporting Israel and everything to do with meddling in the sovereign affairs of other countries, establishing military bases in their territory, etc.
The bullets would be detectable, genius. Engage in thoughtful analysis every now and then, would ya?
Bullets can be made out of other things and still be just as deadly at close range.
Check out youtube and theres a handfull of videos out there of guys using shotgun slugs made out of wax that are punching holes in tires, refrigerators, tv's, etc etc.
And what was the cartridge casing made from? So you're talking about plastic muzzle loaders? Really? At some point, what ifs become... tedious.
There have been all-plastic casings, want to say it was Federal that marketed them back in the early 90's. Their big selling point was that they would withstand more reloading cycles than aluminum or brass.
Not sure why they didn't stick around though, wasn't into reloading then (wish I had been, young and dumb).
For short range a bullet made of a dowel rod, or a stack of toothpicks and epoxy resin would be a real Mother Fucker. Or how about a glass marble? I used to get results with those out a wrist rocket years ago.
I'm not sure about the upper psi threshold of something like schedule 80 or 160 pvc, but if you can approach 10k psi then I'm thinking you could run .380, .32 auto, or 22lr out of it without getting nervous. Hell, my little charter arms Explorer II pistol has a steel sleeved aluminum barrel that has max diameter no larger than my thumb, and the only reason the steel is in there is so that the rifling remains persistent. For a disposable like this, at ranges it's supposed to be utilized, who needs rifling?
Of course, I also refuse to purchase a polymer AR lower... so... I'm probably a bit risk averse in this regard. [I also have a giant hard-on for all-steel CZ 75s... if they fail, you can always club someone with them].
I still don't think technology/development have gotten plastics where they're a perfect solution for firearms nor ammunition. We may get there eventually, but at present I'm not about to trust my life (nor anyone's around me) with an entirely plastic solution.
It's just a really weird market concept to me as well... I could definitely see military application if you can reduce gear weights for soldiers without sacrificing reliability, at all, but for consumers... who show up to the range with a six pack and walk a few feet from the truck, I'm not sure plastic guns have much allure. Even for the DIY types, there are plenty of battle proven metal designs capable of being manufactured with common tools and machines... I'm just not sure to whom this product appeals.
some just don't understand the principles of freedom
Oh do let me guess, that's the one where I can do what I like when I like to whoever I like without any regard for anyone else or their rights because I'm free and unimpeded by any restriction is it?
Or perhaps its the one in which we have rules in society so that we can live together without ripping each other a new throat every time we feel our rights to freedom have been interfered with eh?
Or maybe its the one where the rules just enforce themselves without any central authority to enforce them. Dream on...
Fuckin Gov Troll!!!
Fuckin Dick Head!!!
ID'd as does not work and play wrll with others.
Jot that down in his Febbie file.
i think the invisible fist is somehow coming into view.
What's this "we" business, you two-bit sophist. Shouldn't you be somewhere crouching down, and licking the hand that feeds you?
If you've got nothing to say then shut the fuck up.
Internet Gangster.. Ass Clown
Why don't you just give yourself a green arrow eh?
Tosser.
Indoctrinated = critical thinking MIA
Pilots lock doors now, asshat.
My apologies, I forgot 911 happened because someone forgot to shut the fucking door... Dickhead.
Your apology is accepted. Pilots did not lock doors pre 9/11. Bad men armed with bits of sharp metal got into cockpits and flew planes into buildings. A terrorist armed with a disentigrating plastic gun isn't going to get a pilot today to open a door. FYI I'm a bitch not a dickhead, and you are still an asshat.
So what do they do when one of the pilots is a terrorist and kills the other pilot. No Flight 93 heroics can happen then.
What happens if one of the pilots is a terrorist but the other pilot is a ghost from the future and knows about the other pilot and makes him a vampire and then macrames a crucifix out of the stewdess's panties and uses it to burn the vampire pilot to death and saves the plane. That would be cool.
Seriously, if you are imagining scenarios where terrorist pilots pose as retired US military, join the USAPA, fake 10+ years flying history and recommendations, and somehow get hired by an airline that is laying off... you should probably just hide under your covers. I'm not saying it couldn't happen. I'm just saying your odds of getting buried alive in a sinkhole under your bathroom is much much higher. And terrorists don't have hard-ons for planes. They are happy to try and kill you at a marathon or sporting event too. Plus they don't have to take flying lessons for that.
I suspect he was taking the piss...
I understand now. Your mannerisms and vernacular indicate that you are British, or some kind of vulgar Anglophile. Regardless, your slave mentality is explained quite succinctly.
FYI you can be whatever you want.
Personally I thought my description to be perfectly satisfactory.
Just go back to reading your romance novels since your panty waist attitude is so prevelant
It's highly unlikely that there were even pilots in the two planes that hit two towers...and brought down three! It's exceedingly unlikely that there was a pilot in/on the missile that hit the Pentagram.
For all you douche bags who down arrowed Idog...it's called a drone. And most likey what happened.
Why aren't you throwing a fit over the film, "In the Line of Fire"? (1993 Clint Eastwood) It details how to make a plastic gun and ways to evade security.
If you really want to stop global terrorism, write to your politicians to stop supporting Israel and remove anyone affiliated with "friends of Israel" type of organisations from positions of power. That goes double for the CIA. There's an old fashioned word that describes what these zionists are doing: Treason.
I tend not to get too worked up over fictional films.
And as for stopping terrorism, not sure I ever advocated that....
Not sure it's even possible as long as someone disagrees with you strongly enough. And Israel is far from being alone when it comes to the 'pissing people off' game is it?
Reasonable reply, if a little defeatist.
Realist...
"If you really want to stop global terrorism, write to your politicians to stop supporting Israel and remove anyone affiliated with "friends of Israel" type of organisations from positions of power. That goes double for the CIA."
No one, past or present, that holds dual citizenship, should ever be allowed to accede to any government office (including dogcatcher). Minimum punishment would be permanent expulsion to his second country.
I guess if this ever becomes a problem passengers will have to get their courage up and take out the attackers "let's roll" style.
Want clarity, substitute the word control for infringe and vice versa Then you'll come to realize just how many "gun control" laws are unconstitutional, merely from the simple word change. I believe far fewer would pass if they were called "gun infringement" bills, acts, or whatever.
What does that question mean? What do "it", "really", "depends", "upon", "what", "the", "meaning", "of", 'the", "word" and "is" mean? It depends on what "mean" means, doesn't it? You can play at this until the cows come home. That doesn't change the fact that lawmakers and judges bickering over the meaning of "shall not be infringed" are playing a self-serving little game of words with a phrase the meaning of which is obvious to any child.
And if one is genuinely a semantically-challenged idiot - and I'll give leftist logomachs the benefit of the doubt - and can't figure it out, have a look at what 'gun legislation' looked like in the United States immediately after the passing of their constitution.
"Shall" is the imperative so the intentions of the author(s) is/are clear. How right you are.
YES YOU CAN!!
Who knew Dept of State was going to be Amerika's Gestapo. Kerry can hardly find him a huntin' license.
FORWARD SOVIET!
Mach schnell!!!
Vorwarts, Gerade aus!!!!
Jawohl!
Seriously?
I bought a Kinder Surprise and all i got was this lousy plastic gun
They own bitcoin purely by the need to have an income in the real world to exist.
You ain't paying property taxes, depositer haircut, any government tax demands with bitcoin. OWNED!
All the kid has to do is publish a book with the instructions in it. Having it on the internet may violate a law, but first amendment rights allow you to write whatever you want in a book. Other countries could censor or ban the book, but in America there is not a single piece of banned literature federally. And every court case involving banned literature has always been ruled in favor of the author.
Hope and Change. While they lie their asses off on their gun running in Benghazi and also Fast and Furious.
Now we will be able to see if Bitcoin can survive.
This is when you know we've reached full-retard banana republic status. The fucking government runs guns to drug cartels while outlawing firearms blueprints.
I'd like to say it doesn't get any more bizarre than this, but I'm sure the assholes in Washington will one-up themselves within 24 hours. Each day brings fresh horrors from the District of Criminality.
You can still download the cnc files necessary to machine out an AR-15 receiver, and someone out there has a video detailing the conversion of a manual Harbor Freight mill to a CNC machine. Knowledge is power. That's why .gov is so desparate to control it.
Like I said below, someone on here once posted a link that showed how to make an AK-47 out of a shovel. The bag no longer contains the cat, and killing the internet is the only way to stop information from spreading. We'll see how desperate they become.
It's funny how our government condemns all these oppressive regimes around the world at the same time that it so obviously wishes to emulate them. Might as well start burning books.
And people at the stake. Might as well go all out.
McMolotov... the internet kill switch will be the new Fahrenheit 451.
He's a little ahead of you
"Wilson argues his activities are legit, because ITAR doesn’t apply to information sold in a library, and conveniently has his being sold in an undisclosed Austin, Texas, bookstore."
Have you looked for "Who's Who" in your local library lately?
This is not true anymore. Any and all books that contain blue prints to power plants, dams, public buildings......
have been systimatically removed from the public domain, the stated cause is that they have "sensitive information" in them. I.e. they require a security clearance to view. There were several news articles that came out about 7 years ago where professors were required to turn over books from their own (personal) library after the feds got wind of them having them.
What were you smoking when you dreamed this one up?
"...have been systimatically removed from the public domain, the stated cause is that they have "sensitive information" in them."
What happens if it's all in your head?
Oh, shit!
Unfortunately, in the real world, transferring technical information overseas is a federal crime and does get punished. Crying "Freedom of speech!" doesn't work.
Cody is graduating law school, and so should be able to figure out whether he's screwed or not. ITAR is a pain in the ass to navigate.
This came up with Phil Zimmermann and PGP back in the 90's, when Bill Clinton and his pet fascist popinjay Louis Freeh thought they could stamp out strong crypto by government fiat.
As I recall, Zimmermann was very careful to ensure that he personally did not release the PGP code to anyone but a US citizen. If it then ended up on some foreign web server, he couldn't be blamed. They would have had to catch him in an act he never committed.
The effect was the same. It flew around the world at the speed of light, all the faster due to the impetus so many people felt to flip the bird in the face of the government scum. I know I sent several copies to overseas friends on principle, to express my contempt for the statist filth.
Freedom of speach applies equally to oral statements as to written statements. There are limits to this freedom (e.g. hate speech) but, without a doubt, Wilson has the right to speak here. Now, it's an open question whether he is entitled to speak to non-americans in violation of ITAR. Note that there is nothing in this letter from the dept. of state that prohibits him from leaving the CAD files online and restricting access to american citizens.
Coincidence? - 10 May 1933 - Tag der Bücherverbrennung
On May 10, 1933 the Nazis purged and burned books by 131 authors. The books were claimed to propagate "ungerman" thoughts.
of course the entire thing could be a scam and Cody just an operative
And I thought I was paranoid(for thinking the same thing). Not far fetched- totally get out in front of the situation to control it.
I still downloaded the plans.
I don't have a 3D printer.
Will my Canon OfficeJet work?
Only if you can afford the ink it'll take to build up the parts over time, which could be quite considerable.
Maybe you can print a 2D version of it that would be good in Flatland.
Well we already know a 2d version of a gun will get you banned from schools across the country! Totally brainlessly insane! Our educators fail to use free thought and common sense.
Intimidation works until one day...
you mean keira knightley's bosom?
Build one:
reprap.org
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
Bingo. The dude is too slick. There's something about him that seems contrived. Also, if you're going to do something like this, why tangle yourself up with the government by becoming a federally registered firearms manufacturer?
3D guns would have evolved on the scene without little Cody driving the agenda. By getting him in there all spit and fire and making very defiant public statements, the debate now gets framed within the drama that surely will unfold upon Cody's response. Lets see if Cody ends up nude on a street corner yelling at people.
I am Chumbawamba.
He got registered to keep from getting burned, making guns is a quick way to get a trip to club Fed. I think he's just an attention whore looking for free PR.
You don't know a damn thing. Making most guns is perfectly legal, in fact. I fai to see how they broke the law at all if a metal insert was used. This is government harassment, pure and simple.
Frankly, I don't see what the whole "3D printer" excitement is all about. As one who used to work in manufacturing, computer controlled machining centers have been around for a very long time. And very small scale units are available to hobbyists. They cut metal usually, but also can cut other materials. The 3D printer showed in the link looks like a toy.
The technology behind firearms is pretty simple and I don't see where it woulld be very difficult to make something that would make a round of ammo go 'bang'. I don't think I'd be particulary anxious to test shoot the plastic gun shown in the photo.
Sounds like a gross over reaction by people who are clueless. the 'gun knowledge genie' was let out of the bottle many centuries ago.
I would +1 you again. Great comment.
P.S. - - - apparently the claim to fame for this 'printer' is that it lays down some kind of special plastic to form the manufactured part. Regular computer controlled machining centers start with a block of material (metal, plastic, wood) and cut away the un-needed material to form the part. Such machining centers could produce all the parts shown. As mentioned previously, the technology has been around for a very long time and is proven. - - - Metal, wood, and plastics can be readily found . . . and for cheap. I bet the material used in that 3D printer is much more expensive and difficult to find.
Now if they come up with one of those Star Trek replicators that will instantly produce any kind of meal you crave . . . now that would be worth getting excited about.
Not even that special - cheap 3d printers (and there's much cheaper than the one advertised in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing#Printers) use either run of the mill abs or pla thermoplastics, or both: http://www.protoparadigm.com/blog/2013/01/the-difference-between-abs-and...
Now in general terms, I think the approach used by the 3D printer of laying down plastic to form the shape is kinda 'neat'. But I don't see this as earth shaking, or any more of a 'threat' than other technologies that could create the objects.
I can picture some desk bound, paper pushing clueless bureaucrat seeing this and freaking out, thus over-reacting. Its an illustration of how incompetent they are, and how anxious they are to exert their 'authority' over others.
Someone on here once posted a link about how to make an AK-47 out of a fucking shovel. If .gov thinks restricting blueprints will kill the spread of information, they're more stupid than I thought, which I didn't really think was possible. Then again, I'm never surprised by the idiocy that comes out of our government.
You should write your own blog. It would be infinitely better than the majority that are hawked on these comment pages. I would read it.
The correlation between legallity and prosecution has been falling rather dramatically over the last dozen years or so.
Bankers go free, children with crude drawings of guns go to prison.
How many prototypes were requires in the past twelve moneths to reach final design?
What is the manufacturer's stated- intent personal use or distribution?
The list of questions go on and on...
If you you fail to see how the state could argue (successfully) that they were breaking the law, then you would appear to either not know what the law is or how the law is usually implemented and enforced.
I'm not sure that "irrationally" and "indiscriminately" actually bolster your argument.
Irrational, indescriminate -- from our perspective or theirs?
The more literal pages of "tools" we deprive the State of, the more irrational their behavior will appear to the masses.
I think he's just an attention whore looking for free PR.
Agreed. He seems to pretty full of himself. Besides, a CNC machine would seem to be a better way to go. Don't know that I want a plastic firearm.
You don't like it? Go somewhere else...isn't that what you guys usually say when it's not about you?
Except this is our country, you progressive jerkoff. "Shall not be infringed" was here before communist, 'tolerant', idiots like yourself showed up and purposely hijaked the media, academia, hollywood, etc. to try and brainwash Americans to your substandard of thinking. It will never EVER work by the way. Why don't you go to Canada, Sweden, France, Australia.. anywhere else!
I didn't down vote your post; but I am not going to upvote it either for daring to soil what's left of my filthy country (Australia) with the likes of 'em.
You leftist jagoffs want to ban our second amendment rights, we will ban your first amendment rights. You want a war, we'll see if guns or words are more effective. Let us know when you're ready
Standards don't matter and they don't care about exports, notice they said to remove it from public access. This was all about shutting them down.
DEFCAD however needs to get around the "export" argument they are using. They need to implement a policy of only allowing Americans to access the website. Downside the Feds will subpoena every record they have and bully them into the ground to see if they could find an "export" to take them to Court on.
Back in the day, SSL encryption for browsers and PGP were scheduled as munitions (yes, munitions) not to be exported. This got relaxed eventually, but the cat-and-mouse game in the intervening years is instructive as a parallel to this case.
Source code and binaries with SSL encryption used to require the end user to affirm (click here!) that they were US citizens and would not export the dangerous SSL weapon to the Dirty Huns or beady-eyed terrorists or anyone else. There was an "international version" with broken SSL for everyone else, and a "US version" with working 128-bit SSL for USCitizenisms. My mainland-born Chinese neighbor had the 128-bit version, as did my Iranian (but anti-regime) friend and everyone else I knew. It wasn't really a problem.
PGP had a harder battle, and at one point the lead creator of PGP encryption printed out the OCR-able source code as a book because paper books can't be interdicted thanks to the First Amendment (as the argument ran). This never went to trial, though, so it's not clear whether a judge would see it the same way.
Given that DEFCAD's plans are already available on the Pirate Bay, printing the schematics might not be necessary for the replication of the already-available code, but it would provide an interesting legal challenge and align open weapons-design with the historical battle for encryption rights.
I remember that we in the Netherlands had to settle for the 56-bits version of SSL as we were considered "potential enemy aliens" by the US (even though the Netherlands has been a friend of the US since the revolution, John Adams was US ambassador to the Netherlands before the War of Independence had ended). Only the Canadians could use the 128-bits version. Of course there were patches available that upgraded SSL to 128-bits and everyone used them, including the Reds and the terrorists. It was a pretty much useless ban which only harmed American encryption manufacturers.
We don't trust you. It's the wooden shoes. You people are nucking futs.
Same goes for java, still - you need to download the extra jce files, if you want decent encryption..
And in the end they adopted a Belgian encryption system...
True but you did roll over to the Nazis pretty quickly.
Who cares about SSL anymore?
I run BT and can sniff whatever I want. Just SSLstrip and voila, I can see whatever goes trough SSL.
http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/uk-shirt.html
As an future lawyer in the pyramid Cody doesn't seem to have much promise
He folded like a house cards to a bad bluff from bureaucrats
Sure they could back up their threats with force like KDC but a bluff nonetheless
At this point in his education Cody seems to have a good career ahead of him as a public defender or maybe a Federal Prosecutor
Hate to tell you, but complying with a government order is the first step in doing anything else about it. Running around screaming "Fuck you federal government!" may be really hip and adorable on television, but in real life that ends in getting sent to Club Fed.
Cody is now free to do whatever he wishes in order to fight this. Or maybe he'll learn that he's SOL on publishing it. Either way, he gets to remain free and perhaps to do more interesting things in the future.
Tactical retreats are necessary... ya' know, to live to fight another day.
First of all, it's already out of the bag - sorry! And now it's going to be improved upon by any geek on planet Earth.
Second of all, you can have my "Liberator" when you pry my computer mouse from my cold, dead fingers.
Exactly. Every nerd on the planet is gonna be tweaking and improving that printable gun. Pretty soon, it may morph into a truly effective weapon. Good.
They're going to delete every copy of the blueprint on the Internet.
Just like Hulk Hogan is going to delete his sex tape.
http://m.tmz.com/#Article/2013/05/10/hulk-hogan-sex-tape-the-dirty-gawke...
If only our government would have put a stop to dangerous pressure cooker technology before Boston we would all be safe.
I find it hilarious that people really believe banning anything stops criminals, terrorists or black markets. Information will flow as it did long before the internet.
If only they spent half that amount of energy stopping Eric Holder from running illegal firearms to Mexican drug cartels...
Better yet,
just end the entire sham "war on drugs" (aka Prohibition II).
Then there would be no "drug cartels" or drug gangs.
But I guess that would also mean having to cut back the CIA, bankster money laundering, the world's biggest prison system, and US drug lord "allies".
never mind.
How do you expect the CIA to get black project funding if we end the war on drugs?!?! Why do you hate your country?
The CIA is plugged into the banking industry.
I am for ending the war on drugs. But it will not put an end to the Mexican cartels. They are criminal enterprises already doing extortion, kidnapping for ransom, theft and anything else that will give them money and power. Take away the drug profits, there will be an expansion in other crimes. Do you think they will say, "Oh, drugs are legal now, I guess we should go back to being farmers now." Organizations fight for survival just like people. With the Warsaw Pact gone, why does NATO still exist?
Alcohol prohibition created the mafia.
Drug prohibition (and the CIA) created the cartels.
Government causes far more problems than it solves.
And it was no accident in either case.
Prohibition happened in Canada first. This set up the Canada - US supply lines that would then be used in Prohibition, except of course that everything was reversed. When there was prohibition in Canada the alcohol was bootlegged from America, and vice versa.
Did you know they spray coca fields in Colombia? Oh yeah. Not every coca field, but specific ones. You can't just go out on a plane and start spraying the boss' coca fields! It has to be the competition's coca fields...
No, No, No. We need the war on drugs to continue because it keeps the cops busy. Otherwise, they might dream up a "war on gardening" which would really suck.
(I have tobacco plants growing in my front yard. I await the eventual appearance of the crop gestapo.)
How am I supposed to do my canning if they ban pressure cookers?