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Proposed Regulation Could Keep 3D-printed Gun Blueprints Offline For Good
SonicSpike sends a report on a proposed update to the International Traffic in Arms (ITAR) regulations which could shut down the sharing of files for 3D printed gun parts over the internet. "Hidden within the proposal, which restricts what gear, technology, and info can and cannot be exported out of the U.S., is a ban on posting schematics for 3D printed gun parts online." This follows a lawsuit from Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed back in May fighting the federal government's command to remove blueprints for the "Liberator" 3D-printed gun from their website. A senior official at the U.S. State Department said, "By putting up a digital file, that constitutes an export of the data. If it's an executable digital file, any foreign interests can get a hold of it."
All Constitutional issues aside (Free Speech, Prior Restraint, etc.) They can't keep details of their spying program out of the news. They expect to prevent people from exchanging these documents?
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Making it illegal to transmit data put an immediate end to software piracy. I don't see why it can't work here as well.
Somebody put the genie back in the bottle!!!
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
If we start banning content because it could be a violation of INTERNATIONAL export...cue the Great US Firewall.
Proposed Regulation Could Keep 3D-printed Gun Blueprints Offline For Good
Yep. And drug laws totally eliminated illegal drugs, prostitution laws totally eliminated prostitution, etc.
Come on, people. This is the stupidest headline I've read in awhile. If laws actually had magical powers like that it would be irrelevant since there's already a law against using a gun to murder someone.
Do you have ESP?
The goal, of course, is not to prevent this stuff from getting out -- people will sneak it out trivially and host it outside the US. And state-level agency, or large terrorist organizations, could just send legal (on the surface anyway) visitors to pick it up, if they wanted to, which they don't.
The goal is to intimidate the makers of such designs. Arrest first and ask questions later, when such designs get out. I wonder how they will take that intimidation?
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This has nothing to do with guns or dicks. It's about control, the control of information that everyone already has. It's useless regulation that will end up costing billions of dollars.
They tried this with encryption methods and the result was to simply print it out and publish it as a book, then it became an irrefutable 1st Amendment issue. Idiot politicians never learn.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
By putting up a digital file, that constitutes an export of the data. If it's an executable digital file, any foreign interests can get a hold of it."
Right. Because in countries where you can trade a goat for a fully automatic AK-47 or even an RPK, people are instead going to download and print a flimsy, crappy piece of plastic that can shoot maybe 10 rounds before blowing your hand off. And in any case, they make much better weapons in caves than what this guy is making.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
This will be extremely effective, because no other nation in the world could possibly come up with a 3D-printer blueprint for producing gun parts. :P
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Good luck, Judges hate it when you try to be "clever" with tricks like that, and rarely rule in your favor. Also don't forget that the diagram is already technically broken into parts (individual bits) by virtue of being digitized and sent through the Internet anyway, so that particular attempt to circumvent a ban is unlikely to work with any law as effectively written.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
PGP: Source Code and Internals - Phil Zimmerman - books have 1A protection. So I have no doubt we'll soon see "The Liberator: Source Plans and Internals - Cody Wilson".
Also, WTF does "If it's an executable digital file, any foreign interests can get a hold of it" mean? Is ISIS unable to use non-executable files?
That should take care of it once and for all then. Glad that's resolved. (insert obligatory face-palm here)
Well, the people receiving those billions of dollars won't find the regulations so useless then, will they?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
With massive unemployment and young men and women looking to start a new career; there will be plenty of opportunities to work for oppressive regimes at curtailing freedom for the established ruling elite. It's like the intellectual and societal form of the broken window fallacy.
World war can't come soon enough!
Life is not for the lazy.
Doesn't work with non metal parts...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
If I put out plans for a screw or a pin, is that a gun part? A tube? A box? Spring?
Would the trigger on plans for a garden sprayer be illegal?
Real programmers use "copy con program.exe"
Anti-gunners seem to boil down defensive gun uses to winning and losing.
An armed population is a deterrence. There is a reason why many mass shootings happen at schools. They are completely disarmed soft targets. Shooters know there won't be anyone to shoot back at them.
I guarantee a mass shooter will move much more slowly and carefully if even ONE person shoots back. It's human nature. Slowing a mass shooter is one way to save lives - you don't need to hit the guy between the eyes for there to be a benefit.