...except the UN has stated they are not a nation, or a sovereign, and cannot recognize nations or governments. The UN's response has nothing to do with the international legitimacy of a Palestinian state.
You are discounting the fact that one of the core concepts of western criminal justice systems is... revenge.
We've formalized it, and tried to build in safeguards, and taken some of the emotion out of it to try and keep it from being a mob exercise with torches and pitchforks, but at its core, sentences for those convicted of crimes is about revenge for victims. It's a rarely acknowledged aspect that dates back to the very origins of formal justice systems.
It's also rooted in the fact that, while equally rarely talked about, one of the most effective forms of rehab for those traumatized by others through violence is revenge.
You'll rarely hear anybody who works in a western criminal justice system admit this, because it's extremely politically incorrect, but it is the truth, and criminal codes back to Hammurabi, the Torah, the Roman Republic and almost every other record of formalized criminal justice in human society reflects it.
There is no federal statute against distributing weapon blueprints, plans and diagrams for anything except classified information and, I think, weapons of mass destruction (nuclear / chemical / biological / etc). The only one that's actually somewhat enforced is control of classified information. Most people with a basic familiarity with nuclear physics can sketch you a functional nuclear weapon design on the back of a napkin.
A lot of government documents relating to small arms design and blueprints are actually available under FOIA, at least up to the end of the federal armory era (M-14).
You would be amazed if you realized how easy it was to make a simple submachine gun from hardware store parts. Which is exactly what a lot of the European resistance groups - and the British military - did during WWII with the Sten gun. Then we did it with the M3 Greasegun. All you need is a few pieces of pipe, a few springs, some stock steel, and some hand tools.
There has never, to my knowledge, been prosecution in the US of an individual simply for possession or even sale of plans, blueprints, diagrams, or instructions relating to firearms, even for firearm designs that would otherwise be unlawful to possess federally or under local law. It only gets froggy when physical objects come into play.
The ATF would lose and lose hard in a court case over just blueprints and they haven't chased that rattlesnake because they know it. They have no jurisdiction over intellectual materials or printed / written material, only actual firearm components. They have less than zero jurisdiction over the digital distribution, free or for profit, of plans, as that gets into seriously dangerous 1st Amendment territory that they don't want to risk. They get their dicks tied in a knot pretty frequently in court, they try not to make it happen even more often than that.
There is more than enough energy in.223 / 5.56x45mm to take most whitetail-sized deer species, especially in the 70+ gr bullet weights. Out of a 20" barrel, it will fragment reliably within most hunting distances (under 400 yds), and THAT will drop an animal quite nicely.
Unless you don't believe.243 is an appropriate deer round either. I'd really love to know when deer became armor-plated. Seems the deer my grandfather took with.270 are all but impenetrable these days to anything less than 7mm Mag, according to the Outdoor Channel...
Looks like this is little more than the latest expansion pack release for their flagship product, "Bully Everyone With Legal Threats And Be Giant Douchebags".
God I hate that company. The only thing worse than them and their SCO-style tactics are their rabid fanbois.
If you can come up with an anti-printing regulatory heuristic algorithm that can not only identify 3D objects but also deduce their function, AND do it with few enough false positives to avoid enraging so many of the technology's users that they utterly obliterate the bureaucracy responsible for imposing it......you'll have a Nobel prize headed your way. Just as soon as a supercomputer powerful enough to actually run your algorithm can be designed.
You can just as easily argue that Stratasys should have done their due dilligence and consulted with a legal expert on US firearms law, which would have clearly led them to the conclusion that what was being done was LEGAL, making any revocation of the lease at that point a premeditated act in bad faith.
The ATF has no jurisdiction over the possession or distribution of data files.
I HOPE they try to raid and prosecute someone for distributing 3D printer plans for a firearm... they will be absolutely obliterated in court and whoever they try to victimize will end up living very comfortably from the massive settlement.
These aren't the criteria ATF uses to determine sporting suitability, these are some of the old prohibited features from the 1994 Federal AWB, which sunset (ended) 8 years ago.
The reference to the assembly prohibition is half-right, half wrong, and is probably in reference to the 922(r) parts count requirement for imported weapons in a non-sporting configuration. That line of statute is a nice ugly marriage of authoritarianism and corporatism.
The ATF's process for determining sporting suitability is entirely arbitrary, frequently punitive, and they have literally lied under oath, violated court orders, and defied judicial injunctions to keep it so.
The notorious "Sporting Purposes" clause is rather ambiguous, by design. It gives the ATF an exceptional amount of arbitrary power to declare something to be "sporting" or "unsuitable for sporting purposes" simply by decree. Not so surprisingly, their concept of "sporting" is pretty much restricted to expensive bolt-action deer rifles, aristocratic clay pigeon shotguns, and MAYBE dangerous game double rifles.
The very notion that competition shooting even exists with semi-automatic rifles, handguns, or tactical shotguns is earnestly ignored by the agency. That gives them just enough excuse to (mostly) publicly get away with declaring anything potentially remotely useful for... ahem... social purposes to be "unsporting".
We "inherited" the entire notion of "sporting purposes" justification from - believe it or not - the original Nazi gun control laws. There is congressional record of the author of the 1968 Gun Control Act requesting an english translation of those laws from, if memory serves, either the Library of Congress or the Congressional Research Service. Significant portions of the more restrictive parts of the 1968 GCA are, essentially, cribbed wholesale from Nazi laws, and after nearly 60 years, much of the public has now been acclimated to consider living under Nazi firearm regulations as "reasonable". I wish I was joking.
Understanding why ATF is so inherently hostile to private gun ownership in the first place is a very long, convoluted and unhappy story wrought with corruption, authoritarianism, bureaucratic myopia and a long-accumulating phenomenon of an entire government agency worth of people who continually have chosen to find some way to justify the existence and importance of their jobs and salaries, even when doing what is ethical, constitutional, or simply legal demands otherwise. With several decades of infusion at the upper politically-appointed levels of authoritarian, statist, anti-gun idealogues, you have a quick recipe for bad things and gross abuses of power....such as their current activities, which have consisted mainly of illegally supplying thousands of weapons to international narco-terrorist cartels, then parading fallacious or wholly fabricated statistics around the media to justify even more draconian abrogations of American rights.
I can think of nothing that would scare the ATF more than 3D printing technology that can literally print a modern firearm becoming affordable and widespread, because it would make them almost entirely irrelevant. They would fade away in obsolete obscurity much like a federal bureau that existed to tightly control horse buggy design and possession, faced with the announcement by Henry Ford of the automobile for the common man.
As a MS FlightSimulator art dev alum, those of us who build stuff like FS and Xplane usually refer to them and try to think of them as sims, not games. Which is part of the reason the FAA has begun to as well. : )
Neither of you have a clue what a barrel shroud actually is. Just like the fools who wrote the original federal AWB.
A barrel shroud is a metal heat shield that covers the forward part of the barrel. It was ORIGINALLY designed as a cooling system for belt-fed machine gun barrels; it later was adopted for combat shotgun barrels so that the user could grip them properly for the employment of a bayonet.
You don't attach anything to a barrel shroud. That's an accessory rail. They're two completely different things. Please become even slightly informed about the technical specifics of what you're arguing about...
...from somebody who doesn't drink or go to bars and therefore has no familiarity with mixed drinks or the culture of bar attendance. Like, say, Mormons, Muslims, or... eh, me.
People don't just magically stop having bills after 35, individuals are getting married and starting families later in life, and software / tech careers are becoming the linchpin of what's left of the American middle class.
Effectively cut them off from their career fields at such a pivotal point in their lives, en masse... see what you reap. You may not be doing much hiring of any kind when they're done shoving your dumb, pathologically stock-price-obsessed ass effectively out of society.
Beadwork armbands, moccasins, ponybead necklace, fringed quiver, ornamented bow and belt, and tomahawk.
Messer Ezio's great-grandson here is *not* an English colonist. He most likely speaks an eastern dialect of one of the Algonquin peoples and languages....and I for one can't wait to play this.
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...except the UN has stated they are not a nation, or a sovereign, and cannot recognize nations or governments. The UN's response has nothing to do with the international legitimacy of a Palestinian state.
If it keeps ONE CHILD SAFE, we have to throw out all your civil liberties.
Every time she opens her mouth these days, stronger and stronger derp comes out.
Recently she's gotten up to weapons-grade stupid. Time for her to go.
You are discounting the fact that one of the core concepts of western criminal justice systems is... revenge.
We've formalized it, and tried to build in safeguards, and taken some of the emotion out of it to try and keep it from being a mob exercise with torches and pitchforks, but at its core, sentences for those convicted of crimes is about revenge for victims. It's a rarely acknowledged aspect that dates back to the very origins of formal justice systems.
It's also rooted in the fact that, while equally rarely talked about, one of the most effective forms of rehab for those traumatized by others through violence is revenge.
You'll rarely hear anybody who works in a western criminal justice system admit this, because it's extremely politically incorrect, but it is the truth, and criminal codes back to Hammurabi, the Torah, the Roman Republic and almost every other record of formalized criminal justice in human society reflects it.
There is no federal statute against distributing weapon blueprints, plans and diagrams for anything except classified information and, I think, weapons of mass destruction (nuclear / chemical / biological / etc). The only one that's actually somewhat enforced is control of classified information. Most people with a basic familiarity with nuclear physics can sketch you a functional nuclear weapon design on the back of a napkin.
A lot of government documents relating to small arms design and blueprints are actually available under FOIA, at least up to the end of the federal armory era (M-14).
You would be amazed if you realized how easy it was to make a simple submachine gun from hardware store parts. Which is exactly what a lot of the European resistance groups - and the British military - did during WWII with the Sten gun. Then we did it with the M3 Greasegun. All you need is a few pieces of pipe, a few springs, some stock steel, and some hand tools.
Neither did nuclear weapons. But we still created and used them, and for good reason.
Regardless, your analogy is bad and you should feel bad.
There has never, to my knowledge, been prosecution in the US of an individual simply for possession or even sale of plans, blueprints, diagrams, or instructions relating to firearms, even for firearm designs that would otherwise be unlawful to possess federally or under local law. It only gets froggy when physical objects come into play.
The ATF would lose and lose hard in a court case over just blueprints and they haven't chased that rattlesnake because they know it. They have no jurisdiction over intellectual materials or printed / written material, only actual firearm components. They have less than zero jurisdiction over the digital distribution, free or for profit, of plans, as that gets into seriously dangerous 1st Amendment territory that they don't want to risk. They get their dicks tied in a knot pretty frequently in court, they try not to make it happen even more often than that.
There is more than enough energy in .223 / 5.56x45mm to take most whitetail-sized deer species, especially in the 70+ gr bullet weights. Out of a 20" barrel, it will fragment reliably within most hunting distances (under 400 yds), and THAT will drop an animal quite nicely.
Unless you don't believe .243 is an appropriate deer round either. I'd really love to know when deer became armor-plated. Seems the deer my grandfather took with .270 are all but impenetrable these days to anything less than 7mm Mag, according to the Outdoor Channel...
I'm sure it'll go fantastic until somebody in the Party finds some popular files unflattering to the North Korean regime on TPB.
And then it gets interesting.
Looks like this is little more than the latest expansion pack release for their flagship product, "Bully Everyone With Legal Threats And Be Giant Douchebags".
God I hate that company. The only thing worse than them and their SCO-style tactics are their rabid fanbois.
If you can come up with an anti-printing regulatory heuristic algorithm that can not only identify 3D objects but also deduce their function, AND do it with few enough false positives to avoid enraging so many of the technology's users that they utterly obliterate the bureaucracy responsible for imposing it... ...you'll have a Nobel prize headed your way. Just as soon as a supercomputer powerful enough to actually run your algorithm can be designed.
There's a remarkably low amount of violent crime in Vatican City.
Can't quite say the same for North Korea... even if most of it is state-sponsored.
You can just as easily argue that Stratasys should have done their due dilligence and consulted with a legal expert on US firearms law, which would have clearly led them to the conclusion that what was being done was LEGAL, making any revocation of the lease at that point a premeditated act in bad faith.
This is absolutely correct.
The ATF has no jurisdiction over the possession or distribution of data files.
I HOPE they try to raid and prosecute someone for distributing 3D printer plans for a firearm... they will be absolutely obliterated in court and whoever they try to victimize will end up living very comfortably from the massive settlement.
These aren't the criteria ATF uses to determine sporting suitability, these are some of the old prohibited features from the 1994 Federal AWB, which sunset (ended) 8 years ago.
The reference to the assembly prohibition is half-right, half wrong, and is probably in reference to the 922(r) parts count requirement for imported weapons in a non-sporting configuration. That line of statute is a nice ugly marriage of authoritarianism and corporatism.
The ATF's process for determining sporting suitability is entirely arbitrary, frequently punitive, and they have literally lied under oath, violated court orders, and defied judicial injunctions to keep it so.
The notorious "Sporting Purposes" clause is rather ambiguous, by design. It gives the ATF an exceptional amount of arbitrary power to declare something to be "sporting" or "unsuitable for sporting purposes" simply by decree. Not so surprisingly, their concept of "sporting" is pretty much restricted to expensive bolt-action deer rifles, aristocratic clay pigeon shotguns, and MAYBE dangerous game double rifles.
The very notion that competition shooting even exists with semi-automatic rifles, handguns, or tactical shotguns is earnestly ignored by the agency. That gives them just enough excuse to (mostly) publicly get away with declaring anything potentially remotely useful for... ahem... social purposes to be "unsporting".
We "inherited" the entire notion of "sporting purposes" justification from - believe it or not - the original Nazi gun control laws. There is congressional record of the author of the 1968 Gun Control Act requesting an english translation of those laws from, if memory serves, either the Library of Congress or the Congressional Research Service. Significant portions of the more restrictive parts of the 1968 GCA are, essentially, cribbed wholesale from Nazi laws, and after nearly 60 years, much of the public has now been acclimated to consider living under Nazi firearm regulations as "reasonable". I wish I was joking.
Understanding why ATF is so inherently hostile to private gun ownership in the first place is a very long, convoluted and unhappy story wrought with corruption, authoritarianism, bureaucratic myopia and a long-accumulating phenomenon of an entire government agency worth of people who continually have chosen to find some way to justify the existence and importance of their jobs and salaries, even when doing what is ethical, constitutional, or simply legal demands otherwise. With several decades of infusion at the upper politically-appointed levels of authoritarian, statist, anti-gun idealogues, you have a quick recipe for bad things and gross abuses of power. ...such as their current activities, which have consisted mainly of illegally supplying thousands of weapons to international narco-terrorist cartels, then parading fallacious or wholly fabricated statistics around the media to justify even more draconian abrogations of American rights.
I can think of nothing that would scare the ATF more than 3D printing technology that can literally print a modern firearm becoming affordable and widespread, because it would make them almost entirely irrelevant. They would fade away in obsolete obscurity much like a federal bureau that existed to tightly control horse buggy design and possession, faced with the announcement by Henry Ford of the automobile for the common man.
As a MS FlightSimulator art dev alum, those of us who build stuff like FS and Xplane usually refer to them and try to think of them as sims, not games. Which is part of the reason the FAA has begun to as well. : )
...and that's post about the precise details of my plan on the internet.
OPSEC, motherfuckers.
Neither of you have a clue what a barrel shroud actually is. Just like the fools who wrote the original federal AWB.
A barrel shroud is a metal heat shield that covers the forward part of the barrel. It was ORIGINALLY designed as a cooling system for belt-fed machine gun barrels; it later was adopted for combat shotgun barrels so that the user could grip them properly for the employment of a bayonet.
You don't attach anything to a barrel shroud. That's an accessory rail. They're two completely different things. Please become even slightly informed about the technical specifics of what you're arguing about...
...from somebody who doesn't drink or go to bars and therefore has no familiarity with mixed drinks or the culture of bar attendance. Like, say, Mormons, Muslims, or... eh, me.
...it won't end well, now, will it?
People don't just magically stop having bills after 35, individuals are getting married and starting families later in life, and software / tech careers are becoming the linchpin of what's left of the American middle class.
Effectively cut them off from their career fields at such a pivotal point in their lives, en masse... see what you reap. You may not be doing much hiring of any kind when they're done shoving your dumb, pathologically stock-price-obsessed ass effectively out of society.
My wife is Menominee (one of the Algonquin peoples). She zeroed in on those beaded armbands and the choker and instantly knew what she was looking at.
And, tada, she was right. :)
Props to Ubisoft for achieving that level of accuracy and historical fidelity.
The Assassin Order frowns on your failure of a crosspost and has dispatched Stabs-Through-TCP/IP to... correct the situation.
Beadwork armbands, moccasins, ponybead necklace, fringed quiver, ornamented bow and belt, and tomahawk.
Messer Ezio's great-grandson here is *not* an English colonist. He most likely speaks an eastern dialect of one of the Algonquin peoples and languages. ...and I for one can't wait to play this.
You can suck my cock, and I can not buy your game. So there you go! You've successfully shot yourself in the foot and sucked a cock at the same time.