[PROCON]

According to the NRA, that would include blogs and web forums discussing technical details of common guns and ammunition, the type of info gun owners and ammo reloaders trade all the time

Was it Mark Levin who said that Obama was going to go all-out Mussolini in his 2nd term?

[onedoug]

What the hell does the State Department have to do with this, no less any other totalitarians?

[familyop]

Like most of the other attacks against the Second Amendment, it's another class war move against people who don't have much cash flow through government-related means: that is, those in the crushed private sector. People with large incomes don't need to have technical inclinations for repairing or making useful things. They simply buy whatever they need after consulting with "experts" (vendors and the like).

Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”

Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

...plus government-linked business interests, administrator-class pensioners, NGO heads and more. But remember that big layoffs of government employees and haircuts against pensions are probably in the near future. So it's yet another move against everyone's Second Amendment rights by way of conquer-and-divide tactics. We already see too much of the "I already got mine." rhetoric in discussions.

[familyop]

Here’s something else that you all might be interested in—more of a no-compromise organization.

National Association for Gun Rights
https://www.nationalgunrights.org/

[PapaBear3625]

The NRA article references last Wednesday's federal register, where on page two it has:

The Department proposes to revise the definition of ‘‘technical data’’ in ITAR § 120.10 in order to update and clarify the scope of information that may be captured within the definition. Paragraph (a)(1) of the revised definition defines ‘‘technical data’’ as information ‘‘required’’ for the ‘‘development,’’ ‘‘production,’’ operation, installation, maintenance, repair, overhaul, or refurbishing of a ‘‘defense article,’’ which harmonizes with the definition of ‘‘technology’’ in the EAR and the Wassenaar Arrangement.

§ 120.6 has "Defense article" means any item or technical data designated in § 121.1 of this subchapter."

§ 121.1 , in "Category I" includes rifles, shotguns, and pistols.

This could be applied to technical data on how to create a firearm, and specifically to 3-D printing of firearms. I could see the feds coming down on makers of 3-D printers to include a requirement that all designs for 3-D printing to be either uploaded to the feds by the printer, or that only approved designs be installable on a 3-D printer.

[Lazamataz]

We are reaching the Go Signs.