Court victory legalizes 3D-printable gun blueprints

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Re: Court victory legalizes 3D-printable gun blueprints

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The Austin man known as an advocate for 3-D printed guns was released on bond from the Harris County Jail Sunday evening after he was extradited from Taiwan to face sexual assault charges in Texas.

Cody Wilson was arrested at a restaurant in Taipei City late Friday, according to Taiwanese media.The 30-year-old was being held in the Harris County jail on $150,000 bail, pending transfer to Travis County for prosecution.

"We are glad that Cody is back in Texas again where we can work with him on his case. That's our focus right now, representing our client and preparing his defense," attorney Samy Khalil said in a statement late Sunday.
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Cody Wilson tendered his resignation Friday evening to tend to "personal matters," Paloma Heindorff, director of development for Austin-based Defense Distributed said at a Tuesday news conference. The company is at the center of a federal case in which several states sued to block it from posting plans to build 3D-printed guns online.

Heindroff said she would be taking over Wilson's duties as director and was a strong believer in the Second Amendment.

"We believe people have a right to have these files," she said of plans for printing guns. "We believe in our right to be able to publish them."

Wilson didn't attend the press conference, and Heindroff refused to comment on the criminal charges against him. But said she supported his decision to leave, adding: "Going forward, as it stands, he has no role in the company."
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From its beginning, the gun control debate relied on the assumption that gun control was possible. Prior to now, that assumption has gone untested because government has always exerted some control over the means of production and distribution of firearms. Whether that was accomplished through regulation of corporate gun manufacturers or by restricting transactions in firearm stores and outlets, the government traditionally had various means to impose political will over the process of acquiring a firearm.

What makes Cody Wilson’s legal victory so consequential is that it raises a new, important question for public policy analysts and government regulators to consider: how do you control the means of production of firearms when it will soon exist in each and every household? Although there is some debate on this point, the answer appears to be that at the most extreme it will be impossible or, at the least that it will be incredibly difficult. Without a doubt, a lot more guns will be entering our society.
Now, I get the thrill of understanding that 3D printing technology, along with the proliferation of the required files, effectively kills gun control, but let’s also be fair here. We’ve been debating whether gun control was possible for a long time now.

In fact, for many of us, our entire argument has been that gun control is virtually impossible because the criminals circumvent the law to buy guns in the first place, thus putting the burden solely on law-abiding gun owners.
Government control over the means of production?....Yes, I'm certain that I read that somewhere once.
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When we talk about this subject or debate it with someone that doesn't understand it we must, first, define the terms. The one term that we fail to re-define, change or put in proper perspective is "gun control."

It's already obvious to the readers on this forum is that it is not about "gun control" but "people control."

There are those in government circles that cannot stand the thought of a free thinking people to be able to manufacture tools that make self-defense much easier.

The 3-D printing of guns further highlights the desire of the leftists to frame their idea of a social construct around the philosophy of controlling people by prohibiting their access to inanimate objects.
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High Power wrote:When we talk about this subject or debate it with someone that doesn't understand it we must, first, define the terms. The one term that we fail to re-define, change or put in proper perspective is "gun control."

It's already obvious to the readers on this forum is that it is not about "gun control" but "people control."

There are those in government circles that cannot stand the thought of a free thinking people to be able to manufacture tools that make self-defense much easier.

The 3-D printing of guns further highlights the desire of the leftists to frame their idea of a social construct around the philosophy of controlling people by prohibiting their access to inanimate objects.
There are those in government circles that cannot stand the thought of a free thinking people. You can end that sentence right there.
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schmieg wrote:
High Power wrote:When we talk about this subject or debate it with someone that doesn't understand it we must, first, define the terms. The one term that we fail to re-define, change or put in proper perspective is "gun control."

It's already obvious to the readers on this forum is that it is not about "gun control" but "people control."

There are those in government circles that cannot stand the thought of a free thinking people to be able to manufacture tools that make self-defense much easier.

The 3-D printing of guns further highlights the desire of the leftists to frame their idea of a social construct around the philosophy of controlling people by prohibiting their access to inanimate objects.
There are those in government circles that cannot stand the thought of a free thinking people. You can end that sentence right there.
Was that an original thought or did somewone tell you to say that? :D
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High Power wrote:
schmieg wrote:
High Power wrote:When we talk about this subject or debate it with someone that doesn't understand it we must, first, define the terms. The one term that we fail to re-define, change or put in proper perspective is "gun control."

It's already obvious to the readers on this forum is that it is not about "gun control" but "people control."

There are those in government circles that cannot stand the thought of a free thinking people to be able to manufacture tools that make self-defense much easier.

The 3-D printing of guns further highlights the desire of the leftists to frame their idea of a social construct around the philosophy of controlling people by prohibiting their access to inanimate objects.
There are those in government circles that cannot stand the thought of a free thinking people. You can end that sentence right there.
Was that an original thought or did somewone tell you to say that? :D
No one in a government circle told me to say that.
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