3D Printed Guns: US State Facists Trying to Kill Free Speech, Again

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https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/14/21220765/defense-distributed-defcad-relaunch-attorney-general-trump-administration-letter-legal-violations
https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/letter_to_defense_distributed.pdf
https://3dgun.btfh.net/

Files already all over bright and dark nets since many weeks.
Hot new print models released for those who know where to look.

Two dozen state attorneys general are asking the Trump administration
to crack down on Defense Distributed's Defcad site for selling
3D-printed gun files. In a letter sent today, they urged the Justice
Department and State Department to enforce rules against exporting
weapons and making undetectable firearms. "If the federal government
fails to act, these files will be distributed widely with potentially
grave consequences for our national and domestic security," warns the
letter. Attorneys general argue that Defcad is violating export
control regulations and the Undetectable Firearms Act, which bans
manufacturing, owning, and selling guns that don't trigger metal
detectors. Anyone who downloads files could "automatically manufacture
functional weapons that cannot be detected by a standard metal
detector and, furthermore, are untraceable because they lack serial
numbers," says the letter. "Continued dissemination of these files
will increase the risk of terrorist attacks and gun violence across
the United States." Defcad has well-established problems with ITAR,
but the letter doesn't explain how it violates the Undetectable
Firearms Act beyond asserting that files "enable the automatic
manufacture of functional plastic weapons."