Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 4, 2014 @03:12AM from the aggravated-hoplophobia dept.

SonicSpike writes with this news from Reason magazine: Cody Wilson, famous for making the first usable fully plastic 3D printed handgun and for his new project "Ghost Gunner" which mills metal lower receivers (the milling machine itself is of course not a weapon, and what it makes is not itself legally a weapon) for AR-15s, [informed me Monday] that his online payment processor Stripe has decided that his companies, all of them, qualify as forbidden "weapons and munitions; gunpowder and other explosives" services. This includes the Ghost Gunner and Defense Distributed.

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Re:Bitcoin... by ArcadeMan · 2014-11-04 03:36 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah! Screw those paper bills that can't be traced back and gives you anonymity, let's do something illegal with Bitcoins and its wonderful blockchain instead!

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Re:Lucky for Stripe by redmid17 · 2014-11-04 04:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Animal House was an awesome, irreverent movie that has stood the test of time and become one of *the* classic comedies.

Animal Farm is a dystpoian, allegorical novella about government overreach and oppression, which is what I think you're going after here.