Facebook Bans Sites That Host Blueprints of 3D-Printed Guns (cbsnews.com)

Yesterday, Facebook said it's banning websites that host and share blueprints of 3D-printed guns. "Sharing instructions on how to print firearms using 3D printers is not allowed under our Community Standards," said a spokesperson in an email statement. "In line with our policies, we are removing this content from Facebook." BuzzFeed was first to report the news: The move comes amid a rush by states to block these instructions from being posted. A July settlement between the State Department and Defense Distributed, an open-source organization that created the first completely 3D-printed gun, cleared the way for the group to publish the gun code. However, that was stalled when a federal judge on July 31 granted a temporary nationwide injunction that prevented Defense Distributed from uploading the plans. The injunction prevents Defense Distributed from publishing the plans. But the instructions are widely available online, on sites such as CodeIsFreeSpeech.com -- which hosts plans for parts of an AR-15, a Beretta, and Defense Distributed's Liberator. Attempts to post the site on a user's News Feed, through Facebook's Messenger app, or on Instagram (which Facebook owns) produce a variety of error messages. Other sites that host the files can still be posted through Facebook. Specifically, Facebook says that 3D-printed guns violate the regulated goods section of the social giant's community standards, which limits gun sales and exchanges to licensed dealers.

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Yawn.

[Alypius]

More posturing by SJWs who think their opinion is important. The plans have been out for a while now and we hardly need FB's help to find them. Alternatively, we can go to an actual dealer and get blanks to make our own non-novelty gun.

Re:Yawn.

[ShanghaiBill]

And for all that, the murder rate in the USA is about half what it was 50 years ago....

The murder rate is irrelevant. Gun control is about culture, not "saving lives".

In many ways, gun control is the mirror image of abortion. Liberals are often perplexed when conservatives dismiss their argument that we could save way more babies by sex education, access to contraceptives, better prenatal care, nutrition supplements for pregnant women, and streamlined adoptions, than by banning abortions. That is all true, but is missing the point. It is not about "saving babies" but about a culture of people behaving irresponsibly and then flushing the consequences down the toilet.

Similarly, gun violence dramatically declined over the past few decades mostly because of a big reduction in environmental lead pollution. There is much more we could do: black children still have twice the blood lead levels of white children, and prison inmates have three times the average level. Yet there is WAY more passion about closing the "gun show loophole", something that would have a negligible effect, than about not poisoning kids, which would likely save thousands of lives annually. Likewise, gun control advocates focus on school shootings and "assault weapons", not because these represent a lot of deaths (school shootings are less than 0.05% of gun deaths, and handguns kill a thousand times as many people as assault rifles), but because they represent "gun culture".

Re:Yawn.

[BlueStrat]

it's a METAL BLANK that is where the serial number would go on the "legal" firearm you described. It omits that serial #.

It's perfectly legal to make yourself a firearm and there is no legal requirement for a serial number to be applied nor registered. As long as the firearm you manufacture would be legal for you to posses otherwise (not a restricted type like fully-automatic/select-fire, sawed-off shotgun under 18 inches in barrel length,, etc) you are free to make one for personal use without serial numbers or registration of any kind, only rules about who may legally possess apply as long as you don't sell/trade it to another party.

TPTB over the decades have worked to chip away at our educational systems, our mental health systems, our criminal justice system, and our common shared beliefs using propaganda involving the pushing of identity politics and intersectionality that has it's roots in Post-Modernism. This has naturally eventually resulted in a dumbed-down, fractured/divided., frustrated, and angry population. Then TPTB step in to "solve" the problem *they created* by removing liberty and personal freedom.

Don't be their willing tool of your own enslavement.

Strat