Posted on 08/04/2018 5:11:36 AM PDT by marktwain
Judge Robert Lasnik is a U.S. District Court judge in Seattle, Washington. He has issued a restraining order, forbidding Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed from releasing documents on the Internets that show how to make simple guns and gun parts with 3D printers.
The judge issued the restraining order as requested in a lawsuit filed against the federal government, for refusing to prevent the publication of the information. From seattletimes.com:
During the Tuesday hearing in Seattle, Eric Soskin, a lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department, said they reached the settlement to allow Defense Distributed to post the material online because the regulations were designed to restrict weapons that could be used in war, and the online guns were no different from the weapons that could be bought in a store.
Since the weapons “did not create a military advantage,” he told Lasnik, “how could the government justify regulating the data?”
But the judge countered, “There is a possibility of irreparable harm because of the way these guns can be made.”
In the Defense Distributed First Amendment case, the Obama administration claimed that computer code on how to build a simple single shot handgun was a military weapon that should be regulated under International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The regulations are designed to control the export of defense and military related technologies.
The current administration noted the arms supposedly regulated are already superseded by current military organizations all over the world. There is not a military in the world that does not have access to better military technology
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So these guys are robbed of their First Amendment rights, and we are Second, just because somebody miss-understood his need to get leised?
The files are out there....trying to enforce this is, well,.....DUMB.
Irreparable harm to tyrants is a GOOD THING
So a paper onhow to build an atom bomb = legal.
A book on how to make a gun = illegal?
So can we get a Judge to BLOCK the Judges ruling that Pres Trump needs to but DACA back in force?
“Judge Robert Lasnik is a U.S. District Court judge in Seattle, Washington. “
Somebody keeping a list?
“Seattle Judge Blocks Release of Documents on How to Make Guns”
Apparently the Supreme Court could care less if it’s authority is usurped.
Seems like a good time for the Attorney Genital to step forward. (Just kidding Jeff)
States that are no longer America
Washington
The only reason they have the ability is because the government entity who has oversight (Congress) has done nothing. Like most judicial meddling, the judge has usurped a power his office does NOT have.
Bookburning up next!
So when does this guy prohibit the publication of missile guidance textbooks? After all, if you can build a rocket, you can nook the Earth!
Far too dangerous, Comrade: the little people must not know.
These people seem to have no knowledge or memory of the ubiquitous sharing of films, music, and software.
These injunction stories sound good to statist control freaks but it’s like holding the ocean back with a broom.
A liberator you can manufacture yourself.
Lets hope the Iranian people got a copy.
“The only reason they have the ability is because the government entity who has oversight (Congress) has done nothing.”
Because Democrats want to use the judiciary to do things that they could not be caught dead voting for. (Gosh, we didn’t do that. Some judge in Oregon did that.)
The file has escaped into the internet where no efforts to prevent distribution can prevail.
They have the power, they do not have the authority.
Is denying first amendment and second amendment rights an impeachable offense.?
I wish the role of the US Supreme Court was to seek out and remove judges who acted as political activists rather than enforcers of clearly written laws.
This guy should lose his position, and the case should be dismissed. How can you argue with both the First Amendment and the Second Amendment? This guy should be gone in less than 24 hours. But, alas, our system doesn’t allow that.
Honestly, People!
Do we realize how ridiculous this entire debate sounds?
Some guy in a black robe thinks he can pass a ruling to prevent documents that already on line from being downloaded.
Really?
It’s like ruling stopping people from exchanging phone numbers.
In a word: unenforceable.
Samizdat.
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