3D printed 'downloadable guns' available Aug. 1

"Americans will soon be able to make 3D-printed guns from their homes, widening the door to do-it-yourself versions of firearms.

The choices will include the AR-15, ... All 3D-printed guns will be untraceable, and since you can make them yourself, no background check is required.

A settlement earlier this year between the State Department and Texas-based Defense Distributed will let the nonprofit release blueprints for guns online starting Aug. 1,..."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...ns-downloadable-gun-legal-august-1/820032002/

 

Does these blueprints can be purchased from foreign country?
Asking for a friend.

 

Oh great! let the yanks have more guns when will these fools ever learn

 

Hmmm ... depends on how good your 3D printer is I suppose. I doubt anything more complicated than a zip gun would work properly.

 

Washington leads multi-state lawsuit against Trump admin over 3D printed guns
July 30, 2018
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/washington-leads-multi-state-lawsuit-trump-admin-3d-printed-guns/

 

"A Rush to Block Downloadable Plans for 3-D Printed Guns

Gun control proponents and state officials are racing the clock to try to block blueprints to make guns from 3-D printers from going online Wednesday.

The varied efforts, in courthouses and legislatures, are aimed at Defense Distributed, a Texas-based nonprofit organization that won permission last month from the State Department to post schematics for homemade firearms. The largely plastic guns would be invisible to background checks and untraceable by law enforcement..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

 

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"A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order to stop release of blueprints for 3-D printed plastic guns

U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle issued the order Tuesday.

Several state attorneys general on Monday filed a lawsuit in the Western District of Washington against Defense Distributed, the Second Amendment Foundation, the State Department and other federal agencies regulating weapons. The filing requested a nationwide injunction..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-printed-plastic-guns/?utm_term=.1f09743bdd6b

 

How would these not self-destruct through limited use?

 

Well, good, the bad guys will never get guns now.

If they blow up in the user's face, then the gun control advocates should be encouraging all gun owners to print them.

Unfortunately, we live in a world now that is controlled more by emotion than by facts and reason.

 

"Gun rights activists post plans for 3D firearms after judge's order blocking them

Code Is Free Speech, a coalition of five U.S. groups, said the ban on publishing blueprints for 3D guns violates the First Amendment.

A coalition of gun rights advocates challenged a federal judge's order temporarily barring a Texas company from publishing blueprints on the web to make untraceable 3D-printed guns by publishing similar blueprints itself on Tuesday, saying such publications were protected by the First Amendment...

...[F]ive gun-rights activist groups based in California and Washington state posted a website called Code Is Free Speech, along with what it advertised were CAD blueprints for several high-powered firearms, including the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, the AR-10 battle rifle and the Beretta 92FS semiautomatic pistol.

The site could be in violation of Lasnik's order,.."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...-post-plans-3d-firearms-after-judge-s-n896411

 

Ignorant Hysteria Over 3D Printed Guns Leads To Courts Ignoring The First Amendment
August 01, 2018
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...eads-to-courts-ignoring-first-amendment.shtml