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posted by martyb on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the sign-of-things-to-come dept.

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


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by jmorris on Wednesday August 29 2018, @06:52AM (4 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday August 29 2018, @06:52AM (#727706)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @08:02AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @08:02AM (#727716)

    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

      by mhajicek (51) on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:30PM (#727860)

      Machinists and gunsmiths tend to be conservative or libertarian more often than not.

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    • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:20PM

      by JNCF (4317) on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:20PM (#727881) Journal

      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

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday August 29 2018, @11:39AM (#727772) Homepage Journal

    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.

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