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About those 3D guns…

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In May 2013, Cody Wilson, through his Austin-based company Defense Distributed, created the Liberator, a nearly entirely 3-D printed, single-shot .380 ACP pistol for which he freely shared the plans for online. In the first two days, the files were downloaded nearly 100,000 times. Then the federal government, specifically the State Department under John Kerry, demanded the plans for the Liberator be pulled from the website until further notice under international arms regulations, citing “the United States government claims control of the information.”

Wilson, allied with the Second Amendment Foundation, challenged that logic in court and won the settlement announced this week that will see DefDist once again post 3-D gun files starting Aug. 1 via Defcad.com. “The age of the downloadable gun begins.”

And they aren’t just about the Liberator anymore:

More in my column at Guns.com.

When the 3D printed guns get tough, the Anarchist printers get going

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I saw this interesting interview with Cody Wilson of DefDist doing an update to his case in federal court over the State Department’s arguments his Liberator 3D printed pistol plans were, once they hit the internet, unregulated arms information leaking out past the country’s borders, which on its face is kinda laughable. I’ve spoken with Wilson several times in months and years past with Guns.com and he is an interesting guy.