Those handy digital blueprints that enable anyone to 3D print gun parts or even a weapon from scratch could be under threat thanks to a new proposal from the State Department.
A notice posted on June 3rd in a recent Federal Register show that some changes are being made to the International Traffic in Arms (ITAR) regulations. Hidden within the proposal, which restricts what gear, technology, and info can and cannot be exported out of the US, is a ban on posting schematics for 3D printed gun parts online. The ruling comes just a month after Cody Wilson and, his group Defense Distributed filed a lawsuit against the federal government for forcing them to remove blueprints of the “Liberator” 3D-printed gun of off their website. Wilson described the move as a violation of First Amendment Rights and believes that the new mandate is a direct response to his lawsuit.
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It all comes down to for me format. The 3D printer files are all conversions from anyone of dozens of 3D design formats. There are dozens of available freeware programs for format conversions. Trying to ban one or more file formats is a fools errand.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info.
DeleteThe proposal is a clear violation of the First Amendment......as if they cared.
ReplyDeleteThey will do what they want when they want to whom they want until stopped
by force of arms. That is the reality of the world we live in today.