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After Court Order, 3D-Printed Gun Pioneer Now Sells Pay-What-You-Want CAD Files (arstechnica.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tussle-continues dept.

CaptainDork writes: In a surprising announcement, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson announced Tuesday that while he would continue to comply with a federal court order forbidding him from internationally publishing CAD files of firearms, he would also begin selling copies of his 3D-printed gun files for a "suggested price" of $10 each. The files, crucially, will be transmitted to customers "on a DD-branded flash drive" in the United States and won't be available as downloads.

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  1. Re:Clever kid ... by blindseer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The next step, if any, will be for the Feds and/or states to address the legality of shipping firearms without a license.

    A firearm schematic is no more a firearm than the photo on my driving license is a person.

    I know that doesn't make any sense, but neither did, "Cody is violating firearm export ..."

    The government used a law on the export of militarily valuable information to prevent these files from being posted on the internet. While there are bits of data with significant value for national security this is not one of those bits. They didn't call the schematics a "firearm" but they certainly tried to create some kind of equivalence between a representation of the thing and the thing itself.

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  2. Re:Yep - he is by penandpaper · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The last example I can think of is the Battle of Athens.

    1946 wasn't that long ago. It took an attempt to steal the election and shooting a black man in the back for voting before veterans raided an armory and seiged a prison to steal back the ballot boxes.

    I don't know when the next example of tyranny will present itself and hopefully I never do see it. But it's not a question of if but when. Unless you can find a way to change human nature or remove humans from the governance process then I don't expect that question to change.

    It must say something about the nation we live in that the very idea of tyranny and freedom (freeze peach) is a joke these days. I don't whether that is a good or bad thing.