Ugh, people like this just hurt normal gun owners and advocates. It's really hard to advocate for my right to 3D print gun parts (which I have no problem with) when the person most vocally...
Ugh, people like this just hurt normal gun owners and advocates. It's really hard to advocate for my right to 3D print gun parts (which I have no problem with) when the person most vocally advocating it is a piece of rotting garbage.
Here's the thing. This really had nothing to do with 3D printing. The whole reason he got in trouble was because he wanted to distribute weapon design plans to people in other countries without...
Here's the thing. This really had nothing to do with 3D printing.
The whole reason he got in trouble was because he wanted to distribute weapon design plans to people in other countries without State Dept approval, in violation of ITAR.
In this case the weapon happened to be a 3d printed gun. But if it had been any other modern weapon, like any other firearm or a bomb or a mine or a missile, the result would have been the same. If the court rules in his favor, they're opening the floodgates to basically allowing every military industrial company to selling their designs to every third world country and paramilitary group that can afford them.
He could sell / give away all his designs to any American without problem. Anybody who downloaded the design files could have legally printed it and made it themselves. The only illegal part was giving it to people in other countries without getting State Dept approval.
But "person being sued for 3d printing guns" is a lot more clickbait of a headline, and most tech media sites were more than happy to run with what this alt right troll was telling them instead of, you know, actually putting in time to research stuff.
Ugh, people like this just hurt normal gun owners and advocates. It's really hard to advocate for my right to 3D print gun parts (which I have no problem with) when the person most vocally advocating it is a piece of rotting garbage.
Here's the thing. This really had nothing to do with 3D printing.
The whole reason he got in trouble was because he wanted to distribute weapon design plans to people in other countries without State Dept approval, in violation of ITAR.
In this case the weapon happened to be a 3d printed gun. But if it had been any other modern weapon, like any other firearm or a bomb or a mine or a missile, the result would have been the same. If the court rules in his favor, they're opening the floodgates to basically allowing every military industrial company to selling their designs to every third world country and paramilitary group that can afford them.
He could sell / give away all his designs to any American without problem. Anybody who downloaded the design files could have legally printed it and made it themselves. The only illegal part was giving it to people in other countries without getting State Dept approval.
But "person being sued for 3d printing guns" is a lot more clickbait of a headline, and most tech media sites were more than happy to run with what this alt right troll was telling them instead of, you know, actually putting in time to research stuff.
TIL... I actually know nothing about him, was just going off of the headline and a brief read of the article. ty
Everytime someone become politically embarrassing, he start being charged with child or woman abuse...
I'm not sure what you mean...are you suggesting these charges were faked in some way?