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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3133185" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p><a href="https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/07/10/2121233/doj-reaches-settlement-on-publication-of-files-about-3d-printed-firearms" target="_blank">https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/07/10/2121233/doj-reaches-settlement-on-publication-of-files-about-3d-printed-firearms</a></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Those who remember Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed -- the self-described cryptoanarchist and his organization that published plans for 3D printable firearm parts, respectively -- also remember that not long after the plans for the printable <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberator_(gun)" target="_blank">Liberator</a> single-shot pistol hit the web, the Department of State <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/09/state-department-demands-takedown-of-3d-printable-gun-for-possible-export-control-violation/" target="_blank">seized the Defense Distributed website and prohibited Wilson from publishing 3D printable firearm plans</a>, claiming violations of ITAR -- the International Traffic in Arms Regulation, a U.S. law taxing and restricting the distribution of a wide variety of physical goods listed as having military value. Slashdot covered the website seizure <a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/09/1949218/dod-descends-on-defcad" target="_blank">here</a> (the Department of Defense was initially misreported in sources to have been the agency responsible).</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">In both a First and Second Amendment win, the Second Amendment Foundation <a href="http://joshblackman.com/blog/2018/07/10/doj-second-amendment-foundation-reach-settlement-in-defense-distributed-lawsuit" target="_blank">has settled with the Department of State after suing on behalf of Defense Distributed</a>. Slashdot reader <a href="https://hardware.slashdot.org/~schwit1" target="_blank">schwit1</a> shares an excerpt from the report: "Under terms of the settlement, the government has agreed to waive its prior restraint against the plaintiffs, allowing them to freely publish the 3-D files and other information at issue. The government has also agreed to pay a significant portion of the plaintiffs' attorney's fees, and to return $10,000 in State Department registration dues paid by Defense Distributed as a result of the prior restraint. Significantly, the government expressly acknowledges that non-automatic firearms up to .50-caliber -- including modern semi-auto sporting rifles such as the popular AR-15 and similar firearms -- are not inherently military."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3133185, member: 13624"] [URL]https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/07/10/2121233/doj-reaches-settlement-on-publication-of-files-about-3d-printed-firearms[/URL] [INDENT]Those who remember Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed -- the self-described cryptoanarchist and his organization that published plans for 3D printable firearm parts, respectively -- also remember that not long after the plans for the printable [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberator_(gun)']Liberator[/URL] single-shot pistol hit the web, the Department of State [URL='https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/09/state-department-demands-takedown-of-3d-printable-gun-for-possible-export-control-violation/']seized the Defense Distributed website and prohibited Wilson from publishing 3D printable firearm plans[/URL], claiming violations of ITAR -- the International Traffic in Arms Regulation, a U.S. law taxing and restricting the distribution of a wide variety of physical goods listed as having military value. Slashdot covered the website seizure [URL='https://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/09/1949218/dod-descends-on-defcad']here[/URL] (the Department of Defense was initially misreported in sources to have been the agency responsible). In both a First and Second Amendment win, the Second Amendment Foundation [URL='http://joshblackman.com/blog/2018/07/10/doj-second-amendment-foundation-reach-settlement-in-defense-distributed-lawsuit']has settled with the Department of State after suing on behalf of Defense Distributed[/URL]. Slashdot reader [URL='https://hardware.slashdot.org/~schwit1']schwit1[/URL] shares an excerpt from the report: "Under terms of the settlement, the government has agreed to waive its prior restraint against the plaintiffs, allowing them to freely publish the 3-D files and other information at issue. The government has also agreed to pay a significant portion of the plaintiffs' attorney's fees, and to return $10,000 in State Department registration dues paid by Defense Distributed as a result of the prior restraint. Significantly, the government expressly acknowledges that non-automatic firearms up to .50-caliber -- including modern semi-auto sporting rifles such as the popular AR-15 and similar firearms -- are not inherently military."[I][/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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