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The current administration noted the arms supposedly regulated are already superseded by current military organizations all over the world.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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Samizdat.
It will stop when we, or our elected representatives in the executive branch, make it stop.
I don't know how many people remember, but President Clinton declassified and released nuclear weapons designs. Designs that we had never used (but that would work) were deemed overclassified due to a military culture of secrecy and declassified. They were then released under FOIA requests. I have no objection to digital files on firearms, but I had a huge problem with releasing "inefficient" nuke plans.
You can’t block what has probably been downloaded thousands of times already.
I wonder how many hard drives those files are already on.
Let’s see the feds go and search hundreds of millions of computers for them.
Zatso? He manifestly does have the power, he did it, didn't he?
Bingo.
It takes a goodly amount of tweaking to get a nuke to work. Something a government could do, but probably not a private concern trying to be clandestine about it, in this day in which satellites can spy and see caches of uranium and plutonium.
Also its consequences are a good way to get almost everybody hating you, whatever your cause was.
Sorry "Judge." You're several weeks too late.
You can bet your schumer that the “judge” already has his gun(s).
Or try to prosecute someone — it will be pressed towards the USSC if so.
Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.
It’s all a proof-of-concept until someone comes up with a way to “3D print” using gun steel. For the same money, more clandestine weapons could be had on the street. And I would never try to even test fire a gun printed on any modern 3D printer unless I were dressed in serious protective garb. CAD machines and designs for samurai swords would probably serve my arming needs better.
It’s all a proof-of-concept. One could better class something like this as a “consumer product” like BB guns are, even though a (perhaps a few) normal cartridge could be fired in one.
The judge is much later than that. Websites such as www.cncguns.com have had similar sets of files available for years now. Goes back to well before the first 3-D printed handgun or AR-15 receiver. I'll bet the files have been shared through BitTorrent, too. By now, those files are on computers all over the globe.
Your proposal is acceptable...
Just did a Torrent search and guess what ? LOL
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