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With 3D Printer Gun Files, National Security Interest Trumps Free Speech, Court Rules (arstechnica.com)
A federal appeals court ruled this week against Defense Distributed, the Texas organization that promotes 3D-printed guns, in a lawsuit that it brought last year against the State Department. In a 2-1 decision, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals was not persuaded that Defense Distributed's right to free speech under the First Amendment outweighs national security concerns. From an ArsTechnica report: The majority concluded: 'Ordinarily, of course, the protection of constitutional rights would be the highest public interest at issue in a case. That is not necessarily true here, however, because the State Department has asserted a very strong public interest in national defense and national security. Indeed, the State Department's stated interest in preventing foreign nationals -- including all manner of enemies of this country -- from obtaining technical data on how to produce weapons and weapon parts is not merely tangentially related to national defense and national security; it lies squarely within that interest.'
In the 90's the feds viewed the PGP source code as a possible violation of the Arms Export Control Act as the feds had long viewed encryption tech as a munition, so this is nothing new. There is an easy solution though: https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
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TWO constitutional rights. The first and second amendments are both violated by this ruling.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Here I was thinking that national defense was the purview of a different department... The name escapes me at the moment.
Yes, let's just ignore that Australia used their registration database to confiscate their firearms.
Fuck your mother.
You may not, but the problem is that too many of the politicians you vote for do. HRC is on record many times this campaign saying she wants to see the "Australian model" implemented in the US. That means forced confiscation of all personally owned firearms under the guise of "buybacks." The buybacks are mandatory, and you go to prison is you don't comply.
Here's a list of politicians talking about confiscating guns, just from a short period in 2013:
Hawaii legislature proposes gun confiscation
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/...
New York Assemblyman asks colleague not to mention that original proposed SAFE Act included confiscation
http://www.breitbart.com/Breit...
Missouri Democrats introduce legislation to confiscate guns
http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-...
VA has veterans who cannot manage their own financial affairs declared prohibited persons unable to own firearms
http://www.humanevents.com/201...
NJ State Senator "We needed a bill that was going to confiscate confiscate confiscate."
http://www.politickernj.com/ba...
Oregon Legislator calls fears of gun confiscation a "paranoid delusion" and then states he is in favor of gun confiscation
http://www.examiner.com/articl...
Governor Cuomo says, "confiscation could be an option."
http://www.nationalreview.com/...
Feinstein suggests "compulsory buyback."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/...
CA assembly proposes confiscating 166,000 legally registered guns.
http://www.mercurynews.com/bre...
And the classic from 1995:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Do you notice any common political party among the people calling for confiscation?
You mean other than in California where the State can confiscate your firearms on an anonymous "tip" that you are a danger. And it can do it without warning, and does not have to return the firearms until you can prove that you are not a danger.
Oh and they have criminalized possession of magazines that were previously legal, meaning if you did not turn them in to the police on-time, then you run the risk of losing all your firearms - permanently (convicted of a gun violation = automatic, lifetime loss of firearm privileges in CA).
But other than that, yeah - no one's coming for your guns...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!