Posted on 05/11/2013 3:13:00 PM PDT by Brown Deer
The US government has blocked a Texas-based company from distributing details online of how to make a plastic gun using a 3-D printer.
The ban, by the State Department citing international arms control law, comes just days after the world's first such gun was successfully fired.
Defense Distributed, the company that made the prototype, stated on Twitter that its project had "gone dark" at the instigation of the government.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
State Department?????
This is Justice Department territory, and even it should keep it’s paws off this.
Hasn’t it already been downloaded about 50,000-100,000 times?
Horse, barn door etc.
It’s on the net if you know where to look.
They can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.
“You can’t stop the signal Mel.”
first and second amendment....the regime goes for the 7-10 split...all in one swell foop.
How is this their business?
It has something to do with treaty law and the “distribution” of banned items abroad. that is why it is State.
Not saying I agree just reporting the way I heard it.
No not really. Arms export control regs are State Departments purview
“The ban, by the State Department citing international arms control law,”
this alone aught to scare hell out of ya
I think I'd ask a judge what the frick that has to do with U.S. citizens. Has someone who DL'd the plans sold a gun or the plans to someone in another country? If not, citing "international arms control law" makes as much sense as the State Department saying Elvis told them to stop 3D printable guns.
Face it, it's just another lame liberal attempt to stop citizens from owning guns.
Bits aren't bombs.
/johnny
Wow, looks like someone found where the Constitution says the State Department can overrule the Second Amendment.
Can they point me to chapter and verse?
I wonder how many downloaders’ IP addresses the gov’t got, before the site ‘went dark’?
You're right and it's on sites that don't give a rat's behind what the State Department wants. I'm sure the guy knew there was a chance they would stop him, which is why he got it out on the Net ASAP.
It didn't work well then for them, either.
/johnny
This guy is no fool. He posted the plans, loudly claimed same and had 100,000+ downloads in two days. Then when Fedzilla came knocking he said agreed to remove the plans. Brilliant! Those 100,000 downloads will insure the plans live on the Internet forever. The genie has exploded out of the bottle.
More.
If I were the CEO of that company I know where I would tell them to go or put it. Show me your authority, and don’t say it is on the USML of the IRAR.
Good to see our State Department is keeping the world safe from plastic guns. Now if they could just up their game to include keeping our ambassadors from getting murdered we’d have something.
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