Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel

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Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel


Cody Wilson who designed the first 3D gun, the "Liberator" is in litigation with the Feds over his design. The Feds claim that Cody violated ITAR and penalties can be 20 years in prison and $1 million fine per violation.

Cody maintains that his rights were violated when a restraining order ordered Cody to remove blueprints for the "Liberator" from his website. In addition the government told Cody that they are claiming ownership of his intellectual property.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...d-gun-challenges-feds-to-constitutional-duel/


"On Wednesday, the Second Amendment Foundation filed a federal lawsuit on in Texas, where Defense Distributed is now based, alleging the State Department, Secretary of State John Kerry and four other State Department officials and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, are among the defendants who violated Wilson’s First Amendment rights by restraining him from publishing information about three-dimensional printing of arms, as well as his Second and Fifth Amendment Rights."
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I hope he realizes just how much a Constitutional challenge will cost....

 

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3-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts the War Between Arms Control and Free Speech

Anyone know what his chances of winning this are?






http://www.wired.com/2015/05/3-d-printed-gun-lawsuit-starts-war-arms-control-free-speech/

3-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts the War Between Arms Control and Free Speech

Andy Greenberg Date of Publication: 05.06.15.

Now Wilson is challenging that letter. And in doing so, he’s picking a fight that could pit proponents of gun control and defenders of free speech against each other in an age when the line between a lethal weapon and a collection of bits is blurrier than ever before.

The Second and Fifth Amendments Are Getting Play, Too. Defense Distributed’s legal team on the case includes Alan Gura, a litigator who has successfully argued two second amendment cases before the Supreme Court, and ITAR-specialist attorney Matthew Goldstein. Wilson says that he’s been receiving additional legal advice from the civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) since not long after receiving the State Department’s ITAR letter. The EFF declined WIRED’s request for comment.

The lawsuit seeks damages from the State Department for years of restricting Defense Distributed’s activities. But first, it seeks to have a judge place an injunction on the State Department that would prevent it from continuing to censor Defense Distributed’s files. If that injunction is granted, the group could immediately publish a slew of gun blueprints it’s developed over the last two years even before any resolution is reached in the lawsuit.