This issue is a Trojan Horse for anyone who thinks it’s just about “printed” guns.
It’s about government giving itself the power to make a machine specification file illegal to share because it could be used to make a gun or gun part. If this is allowed to stand, all the technical information on paper or in digital form which could be useful for fabricating or repairing a firearm can be embargoed. Everything from gunsmithing books to CAD files used by gun manufacturers, the gun grabbers will go after it all.
The line has to be drawn before bad precedents are set.
Wait till China figures out gerber files!
“The line has to be drawn before bad precedents are set.”
There is a line (or, rather, several), and they’re not straight lines, but this ought to be protected free speech...because the lines of which I speak are the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. When Kavanaugh is confirmed, any attempts to engage in the prior restraint of the exercise of the Free Speech clause of the 1st Amendment will likely be tossed out.