Federal judge blocks release of 3D-printed gun plans for the time being

[CLP]

So much for the judge's order: http://codeisfreespeech.com

 

[John_R]

Might be kind of cool to 3D print one out of clear plastic, so you can see how all the parts work together. Like the old "Visible V-8" plastic models.

 

[LiveLife]

So much for the judge's order: http://codeisfreespeech.com

From post # 15 - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...lans-for-the-time-being.839619/#post-10890108

Latest development - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/activists-3d-printed-gun-blueprints_us_5b616691e4b0b15aba9df36a

"Gun rights activist groups found a way around the temporary halting of 3D-printed gun blueprints by publishing another set of blueprints on a new website Tuesday, which they say is activity protected under the First Amendment.

They created a website called CodeIsFreeSpeech on the same day that a judge temporarily halted the dissemination of the blueprints elsewhere.

'Through CodeIsFreeSpeech.com, we intend to encourage people to consider new and different aspects of our nation’s marketplace of ideas – even if some government officials disagree with our views or dislike our content – because information is code, code is free speech, and free speech is freedom,' reads a statement on the site, which was created by a variety of groups including the Firearms Policy Coalition and the Firearms Policy Foundation.'"

 

[mcb]

Might be kind of cool to 3D print one out of clear plastic, so you can see how all the parts work together. Like the old "Visible V-8" plastic models.

A clear Liberator.

It is technically an illegal version since is does not have a block of metal epoxied into the cavity just in front of the trigger guard.

 

[CLP]

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A clear Liberator.

It is technically an illegal version...

Or just unfinished/incomplete.

 

[mcb]

Or just unfinished/incomplete.

Cody Wilson's original instructions that were part of the Liberators original data package instructed the builder to only print the receiver and to not print any other part of the gun until the steel block had been epoxied into the receiver and the epoxy cured. The picture above is technically illegal as pictured above if an ATF agent wanted to get mean about it. That appears to be all the parts assembled minus the steel block. Whether the firing pin is or is not there (tough to see in that part of the Liberator) would not matter to the undetectable firearm law.

 

[harrygunner]

The "CodeIsFreeSpeech" approach was used about twenty-five years ago when the other Clinton fought against "Pretty Good Privacy" encryption.

To bypass the strange classification of encryption as munitions, the software program was printed in books. The books used a font that made "optical character recognition" programs more successful in translating the text to compile-able code.

If only this country lived up to its marketing.

 

[Aim1]

Update:


http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/08...xtended-by-judge-pending-state-challenge.html

3-D printed gun ban extended by judge pending state challenge

By Christopher Carbone, James Rogers | Fox News

A judge in Seattle extended a ban on publishing instructions for 3-D printed guns during state litigation over the controversial practice, handing a procedural victory to gun-control advocates.

The ruling, handed down in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, marks the latest chapter in the ongoing battle over 3D-printed weapons.

 

[Arizona_Mike]

They have already lost. What we are seeing play out in the news and social media is simply the government deciding how much of our tax dollars they want to waste before they accept that they have lost.

Yep. The State Department is allowed to say what is and is not a Munition under ITAR. The process of removing normal firearms under 50 cal (excluding silencers, very high cap mags/drums, and caseless ammo designs) started under the Obama administration. Anyone other than Defense Distributed are free to publish plans with no fear of a foreigner downloading them (the only legal issue in the original case--the plans themselves or American's access to them was never illegal). The prior restraint against D.D. (not backed by any law) is going to have a very high burden.

Mike

 

[Arizona_Mike]

Cody Wilson's original instructions that were part of the Liberators original data package instructed the builder to only print the receiver and to not print any other part of the gun until the steel block had been epoxied into the receiver and the epoxy cured. The picture above is technically illegal as pictured above if an ATF agent wanted to get mean about it. That appears to be all the parts assembled minus the steel block. Whether the firing pin is or is not there (tough to see in that part of the Liberator) would not matter to the undetectable firearm law.

You seem to be assuming that it was made inside the US and not of X-Ray dense (such as boron doped) polymer.

Mike

 

[mcb]

You seem to be assuming that it was made inside the US and not of X-Ray dense (such as boron doped) polymer.

Mike

Being made outside the US would be the most likely (assuming they did not have similar legislation). After a quick search I believe the image in question was taken in Canada.

That said given its clear/translucent plastic I highly doubt its doped with anything to make it non-transparent to X-ray. Most of those substances would make it take on a translucent color or even become opaque depending on the dope. And technically per the undetectable fire arms act it has to contain 3.7oz of steel and simply boron (or similar) doping would create an interesting legal challenge as the 3.7oz of steel is not expressly required but given as security exemplar.