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3D Gun File Downloads Blocked; Selling Begins Instead

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:05AM   
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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• Re:"ammunition will be a better problem" (Score: 3, Informative) by mhajicek on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:34PM

  by mhajicek (51) on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:34PM (#727862)

  I'm reading a book called "The Perfectionists" which contains a detailed rendition of that story among others.

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  The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek

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