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The owner of a company that builds 3D-printed guns said he has begun selling blueprints of the weapons to elude a court order on Monday that banned him from giving the plans away for free.
Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, said that he interpreted Monday's federal court order to mean that he could not put gun blueprints online to be downloaded for free. Instead, he said, he is now selling the blueprints to customers, letting them name their own price and then emailing or shipping the plans to them.
"Anyone who wants these files is going to get them. I'm gonna sell it to them, I'm gonna ship them. That began this morning," Wilson said. "That will never be interrupted. The free exchange of these ideas will never be interrupted."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/us/3d-printed-guns-cody-wilson-blueprint/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-08-28T18%3A50%3A05&utm_term=link
procon
(15,805 posts)Igel
(35,293 posts)CNN quotes the court order: " 'Regulation under the (Arms Export Control Act of 1976) means that the files cannot be uploaded to the internet, but they can be emailed, mailed, securely transmitted, or otherwise published within the United States,' the court order reads."
He's selling them, the story said, and then either emailing or mailing them.
If there were other grounds for the injunction, I'd like to think CNN would have named them. But as long as he's emailing, mailing, securely transmitting, or otherwise publishing them within the US--as opposed to the internationally available Internet--it sounds like he's okay.
Farmer-Rick
(10,150 posts)So, this is where they draw the line at never ending proliferation of deadly weapons among a peaceful society?