Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.
Posted on 07/01/2015 7:34:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Those handy digital blueprints that enable anyone to 3D print gun parts or even a weapon from scratch could be under threat thanks to a new proposal from the State Department.
A notice posted on June 3rd in a recent Federal Register show that some changes are being made to the International Traffic in Arms (ITAR) regulations. Hidden within the proposal, which restricts what gear, technology, and info can and cannot be exported out of the US, is a ban on posting schematics for 3D printed gun parts online. The ruling comes just a month after Cody Wilson and, his group Defense Distributed filed a lawsuit against the federal government for forcing them to remove blueprints of the “Liberator” 3D-printed gun of off their website. Wilson described the move as a violation of First Amendment Rights and believes that the new mandate is a direct response to his lawsuit.
“This is a direct action on behalf of the Obama administration to control public speech about guns on the Internet,” Wilson told FoxNews.com. “They cynically redefine any posting of any technical data to be an ‘export,’ and thereby claim that it isn't speech. It's surreal and they're getting away with it.” …
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Lord they forget our youth is smarter then they are technologically. Put any controls on those printers and our youth will get through it in two seconds. How dumb.
Thumb drives ... good.
They do such a great job of keeping thousands of tons of high-grade drugs and millions of illegal aliens out.
And the Porn. You just can’t find any of that stuff on the internet. [/s]
...TOR browser downloaded...VPN secured...
fixed.
Morons. Won’t work.
Oh wait. How stupid of me.
They don’t expect to keep 3-D printer scripts for making guns out.
They expect to put use this issue as a pretext to put spyware in every single copy of Windows, Apple and Linux operating systems.
Unconstitutional, not that it matters.
The “US” State Dept works for the Moslem Brotherhood
and Iran against all Americans, so the US Constitution
is quite irrelevant to them.
“which restricts what gear, technology, and info can and cannot be exported out of the US, “
YES, we’d hate for foreign nations to get copies of blueprints to make plastic single shot pistols.
Of course, it’s OK to just give them the latest military hardware, vehicles, and weapons.
This kind of thinking worked so well keeping marijuana out of the hands of people for the past 60 years. Of course this will work.
Correct and sadly, correct.
Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.
The “Streisand Effect” will certainly occur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Although this seems like a modern, Internet-era phenomenon, variants of it have always existed. My grandfather did not drink very much before, during, or after Prohibition except maybe a bit around Christmas and New Years. However, during Prohibition, he made “bathtub gin” and gave it away. I have heard that it was surprisingly good.
The nice thing about dealing with dumb as dirt anti-gunners is they live in this neat and tidy world where the dark web doesn’t exist.
The thing is though; it does.
Stupid is as stupid does. (Yep; that means liberals)
If it was in a Book, would they BAN it?
I hear ISIS is Tweeting a thousand Terrorist Threats every day.
Have they stopped them yet?
Idiots. I could get them now, make tons of backups, and sell them and get money.
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