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After being enjoined from distributing 3D CAD Files of firearms from his website, DEFCAD.com, Cody Wilson announces plans to sell the files for any chosen price.
In other words: If he can't be the "Napster" of crypto-guns, he'll be the "iTunes," Wilson told reporters at a press conference Tuesday in Austin.
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Josh Blackman, Wilson's lawyer, said in an interview Tuesday that selling the blueprints directly to people within the United States is perfectly legal."It's not about distribution, it's about posting them," Blackman said. "There's no prohibition on distributing these files — the prohibition is on doing it in a way that foreign persons can access."
Also at The Register, BBC, and Ars Technica.
Previously: Federal Judge Imposes Preliminary Injunction Against Defense Distributed's DEFCAD
(Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Wednesday August 29 2018, @06:22AM (7 children)
Point 1. The information is already out there. Perhaps not as easy to find as it was a short while back, but the details are known by a lot of 'foreigners'. Something to do with 'stable doors' and 'locks' springs to mind.
Point 2. Does the US judiciary really believe that no-one outside of the USA will be able to design a 3D printable gun? The fact that it has been achieved, albeit for a single shot weapon, means that others will try. Some will be successful. Ammunition will be a bigger problem for some countries outside the USA, but that will be resolved too, unfortunately.
I'm not sure what it actually being achieved by this prohibition.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by jmorris on Wednesday August 29 2018, @06:52AM (4 children)
He is distributing more than the one shot "Liberator" plastic gun. It is just a demo that can be printed now.
vz58, ruger_10-22, ar10, liberator, ar15, 1911, beretta_92fs are in the archive I'm sharing on BT. Obviously one would need a more advanced printer for the others. But then DD also sells a computer controlled milling machine capable of turning an unregulated "80% lower" into a ready to use part and everything else on an AR15 is available "off the rack" as spare / after market upgrade parts. Others have access to 3d printers that can work with metal and the price and availability of such equipment will only improve. The genie is well and truly out of the bottle now, gun control will soon be as dead as the old Soviet Era controls on printing presses.
We all know that only a small modification is required to convert the civilian AR15 into a real select fire military version. As software it will be but a minor "patch" floating on the dark web. The government will never know how many people have printed and tested a full auto mod, then squirreled it safely away for SHTF day. Which will help tilt the balance of terror back toward the citizens and keep the peace.
And do ya know what the result of all this will be? Absolutely nothing. Which is the entire point. Arms are the most available as they have been in decades and that is now going to be locked in. And it is a good thing. Misuse of legal weapons is rare. Especially among the more serious, the ones who would be making their own, the sort who spend lots of time at the range shooting, members of the NRA, etc. the rate of misuse is trivial. The gun nuts will now have the power to keep the 2nd Amendment against all comers. Now it is up to US to keep the Internet free and so preserve the 1st.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @08:02AM (2 children)
It is so funny that jmorris thinks that running a CNC milling machine is just like sending a file to a machine that squirts out droplets of molten plastic! Machinists, and gunsmiths, unlike conservatives, actually have to know stuff, rather than just going off about it. "Spray and pray" is not about spittle, but it is just as effective, either way. Which is to say, "not".
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:30PM
Machinists and gunsmiths tend to be conservative or libertarian more often than not.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:20PM
CNC machines and 3D printers both use g-code, you can send a file to either machine. They both require regular maintenance and calibration, you can't just indefinitely send files to either machine and expect reasonable results. I think you're either overestimating the difficulty of running a CNC machine, underestimating the difficulty of running a 3D printer, or both.
Please don't make me defend jmorris again, it hurts.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 29 2018, @11:39AM
Some Kuron explained to me that anyone at all could make an AK-47 out of one square foot of sheet metal and a barrel that a machinist must fabricate.
To work that sheet metal one mostly uses a Bending Brake and a foot-operated sheet metal shear. There's a proper name for this shear but it's 4:30 in the morning and my paying client is getting impatient with me.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 29 2018, @11:36AM (1 child)
If you're patient and diligent enough it's not hard at all to make black powder out of Horse Diuretic.
You can make lead ball by hurling a crucible of molten lead from a modest tower into a basin of water. That's how it was actually done by both sides during our Revolution.
That the manufacture of firearms from strictly-specified interchangeable parts was such a big deal was due to someone having figured out how to make balls that are all the same size, but I don't know how that was actually done.
When the owner of that particular Defense Manufacturer asked the US Army's purchasing agent to pick out gun parts completely at random then assemble them into a complete flintlock, that purchasing agent gave that particular Defense Manufacturer a totally righteous rimjob.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by mhajicek on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:34PM
I'm reading a book called "The Perfectionists" which contains a detailed rendition of that story among others.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek