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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: 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.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(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