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Feds Pull 3D-Printed Gun Design from Web
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | May 9, 2013 | Mary Chastain

Posted on 05/09/2013 4:59:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The federal government has sent a letter to a personal defense advocate demanding he remove the 3D blueprints for a functional homemade gun from his website.

Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed, which hosts designs for 3D-printable firearms and firearm components, has complied with the government order to remove the files.

“DEFCAD files are being removed from public access at the request of the US Department of Defense Trade Controls,” reads the banner at the top of his website defcad.org. “Until further notice, the United States government claims control of the information.”

Defense Distributed's Twitter account lays blame on Secretary of State John Kerry:

Defense Distributed @DefDist

#DEFCAD has gone dark at the request of the Department of Defense Trade Controls. Take it up with the Secretary of State.

12:46 PM - 9 May 2013

198 Retweets 13 favorites

On May 6, Wilson announced the test fire of the Liberator gun....

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 3dp; 3dprinters; 3dprinting; banglist; guncontrol; johnkerry; obama; schumer; secondamendment; texas
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Of course they did.
1 posted on 05/09/2013 4:59:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well duhm, the feds would pull plans for making a pointed stick off the internet if they thought they could get away with it...


2 posted on 05/09/2013 5:01:12 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Somebody has to explain to me — what gives them the legal authority to do this to the guy.


3 posted on 05/09/2013 5:01:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Don't the feds know that you can purchase plans of everything from cannons to gatling guns to 'grease guns' legally via the internet?

/johnny

4 posted on 05/09/2013 5:01:40 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So how many got out to the public? LOL


5 posted on 05/09/2013 5:02:27 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure somebody here has the file saved to print the gun...please link it.


6 posted on 05/09/2013 5:02:32 PM PDT by BreezyDog (Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is good.

It's not a Second Amendment issue.

It's a First Amendment issue.

Get it to the USSC ASAP.

This is exactly the kind of speech the First Amendment was intended to protect.

The First Amendment ain't about protecting porn.

It's about protecting political speech, and instructions on how to build firearms is political speech.

7 posted on 05/09/2013 5:03:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: BenLurkin
I'm betting they think ITAR does. But Phil Zimmerman sorta knocked that out on "weapons grade encryption".

I've still got a t-shirt. I wear it to get my DL pic taken.

/johnny

8 posted on 05/09/2013 5:04:04 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: BenLurkin
what gives them the legal authority to do this to the guy.

Authority? We don't need no steenkin' authority !

9 posted on 05/09/2013 5:04:23 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s exactly right.


10 posted on 05/09/2013 5:04:29 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Life, liberty, property, family, RKBA, sovereignty, security, borders, independence, the oath.)
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To: JRandomFreeper; BenLurkin

The plans were in a thread here just the other day. And does Mr. Obama actually think those are the only people on Earth who can figure out how to print a firearm on a 3-D printer? Hilarious!


11 posted on 05/09/2013 5:04:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fedzilla doesn’t realize....what’s put on the Internet stays on the internet.


12 posted on 05/09/2013 5:04:56 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Correct. Bits aren't bombs.

/johnny

13 posted on 05/09/2013 5:04:58 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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So how many got out to the public?

I read that the first day saw 50,000 downloads of the plans.

14 posted on 05/09/2013 5:05:29 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Fascists.
15 posted on 05/09/2013 5:05:48 PM PDT by DManA
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To: JRandomFreeper

You can learn everything you need to know about making a gun from your average 8 year old palestinian. Suggest using common sense for the sake of safety.

I saw them make a wooden cannon on mythbusters.


16 posted on 05/09/2013 5:06:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let me explain it to those that are dense.... take a tube. Put substance in it that burns quickly. On top of that, put just about anything. Potato, lead, depleted uranium. Touch off the flamable substance. The projectile moves downrange.

Humans have been doing it for over 500 years.

/johnny

17 posted on 05/09/2013 5:07:35 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Izzy Dunne

I think I was #37488...

I’ve already passed on copies as well.

:-)

Suck it Kerry.


18 posted on 05/09/2013 5:07:54 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Dead Corpse

Torrent?


19 posted on 05/09/2013 5:11:05 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

I pulled mine direct download. Had a bunch of people ask for it around work, server share.


20 posted on 05/09/2013 5:12:41 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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