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For those in the US with a combined interest in 3D-Printers, intersections of the 1st and 2nd Amendments, and legal precedents; Cody Wilson has been fighting the US Government for half a decade.
Short version: after Wilson uploaded his 3D pistol plans to his site, over 100,000 people downloaded it - this drew the attention of the US authorities, who tried to use the International Trade in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to force a take-down.
The authorities argued that by posting the 3D printer plans for a firearm, Mr. Wilson was effectively exporting firearms, and subject to federal regulation. Eventually the Department of Justice dropped the case, paving the way for DIY'ers to publish such things freely.
The article cites 'promises' made by DoJ to move the regulations to another department.
Wired's article: A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandora's Box for DIY Guns (archive)
Related: The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home
Japanese Gun Printer Goes to Jail
Suspected 3D-Printed Gun Parts and Plastic Knuckles Seized in Australia
FedEx Refuses to Ship Defense Distributed's Ghost Gunner CNC Mill
Man Who Used CNC Mill to Manufacture AR-15 "Lowers" Sentenced to 41 Months
Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Friday July 13 2018, @01:28AM (15 children)
The Soviet Union and other Communist countries tried to maintain firm control of printing presses and all other mass media. The photocopier and laser printer smashed that plan. Wide availability of small concealable sat dishes and the VCR put the final nails into the coffin of that plan and soon the Soviet Union itself.
America didn't go for overt government control but all media was controlled by carefully controlled Deep State Jews at roughly six (precise configuration and number has varied by remained fairly consistent at "large enough to create the illusion of choice but small enough to tightly control") conglomerates. The illusion of freedom allowed U.S. control over mass media to survive until the Internet finally smashed it to bits. Desperate attempts to impose censorship on the Internet are currently ongoing but are almost certain to fail.
Now the same process is playing out with arms control and the rise of 3d printing. It will always be possible to buy a factory made weapon that is better and cheaper than a 3d printed one, if it is legal. Much the same way a mass printed book is better and cheaper than one run off on a laser printer or photocopied. A mass pressed DVD is better than a multi-generation VHS copy, etc. But first in the U.S. and then the whole world, 3d printing means the choice is no longer allow civilian ownership of small arms or ban it but allow open / semi-regulated sales or underground 3d printed ones with no trace at all in the official system. Outright bans won't be an option much longer. Controlling where one can carry will be for a bit longer, until people get tired of the danger of "gun free zones" and demand they be either eliminated or actually policed heavilly enough to actually be safe.
Tight central control over the radio spectrum is similarly threatened by SDR, fixed purpose, tightly regulated radios replaced with software.
(Score: 3, Touché) by hemocyanin on Friday July 13 2018, @01:48AM (6 children)
Often enough I like what you say but then you come back and remind why I have a red faced frownie next to your name.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mobydisk on Friday July 13 2018, @02:15AM (5 children)
IKR! I have mod points, and I am reading the first paragraph thinking "oh, that's a good point, history is repeating itself." Then the second paragraph comes along and I had to read it 3 times because the word "Jews" makes no sense whatsoever in this context. I thought it was a misspelling so I'm trying to figure out what word he meant. Then I am thinking "maybe it was a voice to text thing and Siri screwed up." It was confusing as heck! It's like if you were sitting in class and your math teacher was says "Okay class: First you add the ones digits to get 12, then you carry the 1, then the Jews steal your life, then you add..." I kinda want to try reposting the comment but without the racist garbage, and see if I get modded up.
(Score: 3, Touché) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday July 13 2018, @03:01AM
It's jmorris. It's just what jmorris does.
I am at times tempted to mod him up too, but inevitably the next sentence comes and there's some wacko thing about Jews. Every single time.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by jmorris on Friday July 13 2018, @03:57AM (3 children)
Look at the ownership of all of the major media companies. Not most. All of them. Then look at the news business in particular. This isn't an imageboard but those damning JPGs for CNN, NBC, NYT, FOX and NPR are widely available. Every news organization is run by, staffed by and generally dominated by Jews at concentrations so far above their representation in the population that there is zero chance of it being a coincidence.
Just as an example, from the one that got the creator doxxed by CNN, lets take a look at CNN. At the time the infamous image was created:
Jewish President and majority of the C-level leadership are Jewish at the parent Warner.
The President of CNN is Jewish as is the Vice President and a majority of the Executive Vice Presidents.
Moving to on screen talent the Lead Political Anchor, Chief Political Correspondent, Chief Political Analyst, Chief Political Director, Chief National Correspondent and Chief Washington Correspondent are all Jewish. A majority of the shows, at least thirteen, are hosted by Jews.
Lets broaden to the flagship Sunday Morning shows
NBC: Meet the Press with Chuck Todd (Jew)
ABC: This Week with George Stephanopoulos (Not Jewish, he has the job because he is a Clinton Minion) and co-host Martha Radditz (Jew)
CBS: Face the Nation with a recent change to Margaret Brennan who provides the exception to the rule. Just for extra diversity she is a Muslim convert. And she is a paid up member of the CFR so her Globalist bonafides are sound.
FOX: Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace (Jew)
FNC: Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo (Married to a Jew)
CNN: State of the Union with Jake Tapper (Jew)
And while we are noticing things, notice how they are all so ideologically similar. All were unquestionably "With Her" but Martha is the only one seen crying on air the night HRC went down to defeat.... You say Maria is on FNC so not her? Oh yea, she is a huge donor to the Clinton Foundation and worse.
The same pattern repeats with monotonous regularity across the rest of the cable dial. And in broadcast, print publishing, the music industry, film, etc. Not just any Jews mind ya, a very specific sort. Not the religious type, the secular Bolshevik sort.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Friday July 13 2018, @04:13AM (2 children)
Don't obsess over the jews, look at the pattern of unscrupulous, overweight, white men in positions of power *everywhere*, not just the media.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday July 13 2018, @04:21AM (1 child)
Only when Quantum Jews are in the "White" state. :)
You see "Jew" is a Quantum state of being, it can be a religion, a race, an ethnic background, a culture or many Jews can be "White" as needed. This is very handy for when they want to pontificate about "their fellow white people" and what "we" should do to hasten "our" passage from the Earth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 13 2018, @09:47PM
He's a troll, like EF but somehow even LESS self-aware. I'm often tempted to write a browser plugin for soylentnews which removes all posts from certain users from the page. Never read dumb shit again! Implement your own filters to keep out the necro-troll, etc.
(Score: 3, Touché) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 13 2018, @01:54AM (5 children)
You must be unfamiliar with the Internet
Get back to me when you can link me in uncensored news website whose Alexa Rank is less than a hundred
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by ewk on Friday July 13 2018, @01:40PM (4 children)
About this 'unfamiliar' claim... you do realize that 'the Internet' is a bit more than just (censored or uncensored) news websites?
I don't always react, but when I do, I do it on SoylentNews
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 13 2018, @07:22PM (1 child)
Yes, but how is porn relevant here?
(Score: 2) by ewk on Saturday July 14 2018, @10:38AM
The amount of porn consumed through other means than a website probably isn't.
But, (the kind, quality, quantity, availability of) porn in itself is one of the indicators about the state of a society.
With that is it maybe on par, but probably even more relevant, compared to weapon related behaviour and laws :-D
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday July 14 2018, @12:48AM (1 child)
Take all the people who use the Internet in any way.
Now take just one example person, whose time is divided among those any ways in proportion to how the whole world's population uses each service on the Internet.
Most of that person's time will be spent on Facebook, with a modest amount of time on news websites that consist largely of propaganda, as well as a substantial amount of time listening to RIAA Label-Signed "musicians".
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Touché) by ewk on Saturday July 14 2018, @10:32AM
A simple 'yes' would have sufficed :-)
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(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Friday July 13 2018, @06:08AM (1 child)
No, it did not. Neither photocopiers nor laser printers were widely available USSR time. Not in the other East European countries in the communist block.
Photocopiers were massive, required special technician maintenance** and the access to them was heavily controlled.
To even own a mechanical typing machine, one needed to go and register it with the police.
** (for in 1984, 5 years before the fall of communism, an HP laserjet [wikipedia.org] was "sold for $3500,[12] had trouble with even small, low resolution graphics, and weighed 32 kg (71 lb)."
Really, what alternate reality are you living in? Handwritten and low tech info exchange was the norm at those time [wikipedia.org].
Wanna see the "walkman" of those times in USSR? Here's an example [reverb.com].
VCR? Not in the private ownership, unless you were the progeny of a apparatchik of above medium level.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 13 2018, @03:12PM
Off topic: I heard that Xerox service people dressed like spies would service equipment in the Soviet Union and plant and retrieve bugging devices on equipment used at *cough* certain *cough* locations.
The Centauri traded Earth jump gate technology in exchange for our superior hair mousse formulas.