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State Department orders firm to remove 3D-printed guns web blueprints
the guardian ^
| Friday 10 May 2013
| Amanda Holpuch, Ewen MacAskill, Charles Arthur
Posted on 05/11/2013 3:13:00 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Brown Deer
State Department?????
This is Justice Department territory, and even it should keep it’s paws off this.
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:15:02 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Leftist, Progressive, Socialist, Communist, fundamentalist Islamic policies, the death of a nation.)
To: Brown Deer
Hasn’t it already been downloaded about 50,000-100,000 times?
Horse, barn door etc.
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:15:55 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: DoughtyOne
John hanoi Kerry?
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:16:10 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: DoughtyOne
It’s on the net if you know where to look.
They can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:16:17 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: Brown Deer
“You can’t stop the signal Mel.”
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:16:21 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Brown Deer
first and second amendment....the regime goes for the 7-10 split...all in one swell foop.
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:18:47 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Brown Deer
How is this their business?
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:19:30 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: DoughtyOne
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.
To: DoughtyOne
No not really. Arms export control regs are State Departments purview
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:22:03 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Brown Deer
“The ban, by the State Department citing international arms control law,”
this alone aught to scare hell out of ya
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:22:34 PM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(I'll surrender my guns alright - bullets first)
To: Brown Deer
...citing international arms control law... 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.
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:23:28 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: madison10
ITAR. It sucks. Phil Zimmerman crossed swords with them over PGP. Phil 1, State 0 in the long run.
Bits aren't bombs.
/johnny
To: Brown Deer
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?
To: muir_redwoods; Brown Deer
I wonder how many downloaders’ IP addresses the gov’t got, before the site ‘went dark’?
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:24:54 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(AR-10s & AR-15s are the Muskets of the 21st Century. Free men need not ask permission.)
To: muir_redwoods
Hasn’t it already been downloaded about 50,000-100,000 times?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.
To: jeffc
They did the same thing with the popular PGP encryption algorithm, claiming that 3 lines of code was a 'munition'.
It didn't work well then for them, either.
/johnny
To: Brown Deer
Defense Distributed, the company that made the prototype, stated on Twitter that its project had "gone dark" at the instigation of the government.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.
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:26:16 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
To: Brown Deer
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.
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posted on
05/11/2013 3:26:17 PM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: Brown Deer
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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