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BREAKING: US Government Takes Over 3D Gun Manufacturer
The Free Patriot ^ | 5/9/13 | Matt Liponoga

Posted on 05/09/2013 7:14:18 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe

The revolutionary concept of 3-D printed firearms has been building momentum for months now. Online observers, innovators, investors and the generally curious celebrated as the first completely 3-D printed handgun became a reality. Since the blueprint for “The Liberator” hit the web, the file was downloaded thousands of times in just a few days.

Today, the government shut it down.

Cody Wilson, the 3-D gunsmith, law student, and founder of the non-profit innovation outlet, Defense Distributed, broke the bad news in a tweet to his followers.

(Excerpt) Read more at freepatriot.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2016election; 3dconfiscatioed; 3dgun; 3dgunsmith; 3dmanufacturer; 3dprinting; banglist; defcad; defensedistributed; election2014; election2016; guncontrol; oldnews; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; secondamendment
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To: NewJerseyJoe

I am sure 3D condoms would be perfectly okay even if the condoms made it to 6 year olds. Leftism truly is a mental disease.


61 posted on 05/10/2013 3:32:14 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: max americana

Because of liberals my wish list has things on it I did n9t even want.

I didn’t want extra guns and ammo. Had to go and buy them.

Didn’t need hundreds of incandescent lightbulbs. Bought them because they were being phased out.

Now I didn’t know I wanted a printer but will add this to my wish list too.

The leftists are idiots. If they shut up and let people be free, few people would even be buying these things. Promise to ban them and people want them.


62 posted on 05/10/2013 3:37:04 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: BwanaNdege

Street gangs in Papua New Guinea make guns to go with their machetes.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3012964/posts


63 posted on 05/10/2013 3:52:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: DBrow
I have a makerbot cupcake. The most amazing thing to me about it is the fact that it could have been built 25 years ago. It's all hardware store stuff. The magic is in the CAD software, the software that renders models into G-codes, and the modern computers need to run that software. Unless they outlaw laptops, they are not going to be able to control it.
64 posted on 05/10/2013 4:18:32 AM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

They weren’t in violation of any law, president hussein just didn’t like ‘em.

Apparently that’s enough these days.


65 posted on 05/10/2013 4:26:48 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: molson209

Too late, horse out of the barn.


66 posted on 05/10/2013 5:00:18 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: All

Look for this to land up in the sourts, 1st Amendment issue.


67 posted on 05/10/2013 5:02:29 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Born to Conserve

Revolt is coming.


68 posted on 05/10/2013 5:03:05 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl
The Federal government blatantly broke the law here and there are a lot of people even on this thread that ignore the fundamental problem. The point is Federal government has no lawful authority to take this action and it amazing to me that the entire nation isn't inflamed over this blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of powers. Mark my words, the fact that the Fed has done this means that they think their powers are no longer restrained by the constitution. Our Federal government is now officially a criminal enterprise.
69 posted on 05/10/2013 5:20:35 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Durus

Okay. What do we do?


70 posted on 05/10/2013 5:30:56 AM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: Durus
Never even heard of this office. Where in the constitution was this power granted to the government. The government that was created by the states for their common defense?

Wilson received a letter from the US Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance, Enforcement Division (DTCC/END) which demanded the group remove the content in question from public domain.

The complaint reads that the “DTCC/END” will review the data Defense Distributed has released to ensure compliance with “Category I of the USML” (United States Munitions List). Apparently, releasing the files possibly violated the ITAR, or International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

But no one is trafficking munitions or arms, just ideas.

71 posted on 05/10/2013 5:51:33 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: orinoco
"Instead of shipping parts we will be transferring files and products will be fabricated locally. Even the left wingers will see that using 3D printers for manufacturing reduces the products carbon footprint since there will be no required shipping."

Sci-fi story had that as the basis for interstellar travel. "Way stations" printed/cloned new bodies. Only the "mind" and "3d Code" for the body was transmitted as coded radio transmissions. After transmission, the "left behind" body was dissolved and recycled.

72 posted on 05/10/2013 7:59:50 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: DBrow

The printers will be free.
The material ‘ink’ will be very expensive.............if you can get any at all.........


73 posted on 05/10/2013 8:12:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: BwanaNdege

We were in Des Moines last weekend at the State Historical society. They had on display a primitive cannon where the barrel is made of wood and then it was wrapped the entire length in wire to give it’s strength.


74 posted on 05/10/2013 8:18:02 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Red Badger

lol like ammo!


75 posted on 05/10/2013 8:41:30 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: null and void

So much for the first amendment.


76 posted on 05/10/2013 8:52:03 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Mean Daddy

“They had on display a primitive cannon where the barrel is made of wood and then it was wrapped the entire length in wire to give it’s strength.”

Essentially, that is how the external fuel tank for the Space Shuttle was made, as well as the lightweight scuba airtanks, etc.

It is called filament winding. The Shuttle & scuba tanks use epoxy resin instead of wood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOZl3v4RC18
Filament Winding Processes

Fiberglass reinforced packing tape around PVC pipe would be a “quick & dirty” method.


77 posted on 05/10/2013 11:32:09 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: Fee


If you're referring to the one pictured above, it's actually capable of firing several shots.

It's made out of ABS plastic, which has a high enough "glass transition" temperature so that the barrel doesn't deform after just one shot. It wouldn't do well on rapid fire; but, so long as it's not over heated, it can be fired multiple times.


78 posted on 05/10/2013 12:14:06 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Ozark Tom

Absolutely, except this is an overreach by State.

I firmly believe this guy crushed the latest gun control bill because he pointed out that magazine restrictions are unenforceable.

He’s trying to Roe v Wade the Feds, and I think he’s smart enough to win.

They just threw him into the briar patch.


79 posted on 05/10/2013 12:24:23 PM PDT by GEC (We're not drilling in ANWR because...)
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To: Wonder Warthog

I remember that story. Whhere the guy didn’t age as long as he was inside his house and was 100 + years old? And the govt was just starting to investigate how old he was?


80 posted on 05/10/2013 4:32:20 PM PDT by sidetracked
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