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3D Gun File Downloads Blocked; Selling Begins Instead

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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    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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