Oh man, I have been looking for an expensive and complicated way to severely injure my hand! Thanks, bro!

will this technology be useful in quelling slave rebellions? the well-regulated militia needs to know.

I find it interesting how the same centrists who will defend the rights of Fascists to march through our streets chanting hate speech and threatening our neighbors suddenly oppose free speech when it is speech that ensures those same bourgeois centrists can't completely disarm the working class.

I cannot figure out why anyone would want one of these 1-shot wonders (maybe) when it's so insanely easy to get an actual, real gun...even as a convicted felon.

Cody Wilson is a bro-drillard, pseudointellectual dbag.

@3: that's quite a straw man you've constructed. nice work.

@6 Not a straw man. It is a freedom of speech issue, not a 2A issue. The issue is whether the state has a right to say some knowledge is illegal to communicate to another individual. When one can buy an actual working handgun for far less that the cost of a 3d printer with no paperwork if you ask in the right places, there is no reasonable safety argument for restricting this set of digital sketches. This isn't about keeping guns out of criminal hands, criminals would laugh at a plastic one-shot pistol that is that bulky. No, the only reason to restrict the sharing of these plans is to keep knowledge out of the people's hands. The Capitalist Class is terrified of the idea that the workers could have the ability to seize the means of production by force. So they argue that only the police should have access to weapons, for our safety.

Why would anyone want a 1 shot wonder? It's pretty amazing the damage you can do.

Sure you can't shoot someone 8 times; but you don't need to if you have decent aim. One shot and he drops.

It's weird how much attention this gets when you can buy an 80% Glock or AR receiver and build an actual firearm with pretty basic tools. A real gun, untraceable, and 100% legal.

@7: yeah, you attack a "centrist" who does A (defends fascist marches on 1st amendment grounds), but also does B (opposes distributing 3-d gun printing information), attributing a non-existent policy goal ("completely disarm the working class") to them, and you condemn their hypocrisy. you didn't cite an actual person who does either, or wishes for that outcome. because they don't exist.

that, sir, is a straw man.

This is a direct result of the somewhat screwy way he was restricted from distributing his design in the first place. He was forbidden only from distributing his files internationally, because it was done under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Those regulations specifically do not affect any domestic communications, nor should they. For example, it would be a violation of ITAR for a US citizen (like me) to discuss building a rocket engine with a Canadian, but the government specifically does not have the power to restrict me from having such a conversation with a fellow US person (absent classification, which isn't relevant here).

Therefore, by selling it, he's able to, at least in principle, restrict transfer of the plans to other US persons, which means he isn't violating ITAR and is free to distribute the plans as he wishes.

And one last thing... the Liberator is a political manifesto that might be able to fire a bullet or two, not a functional weapons.

And so because The Stranger has breathlessly run two pieces in 24 hours on the same stupid gun shit, I'll repost my thoughts here:

This is more useless feelgood bullshit.
Anti-gun liberals love useless feelgood bullshit.

Undetectable guns? Bullshit.
This is what Ted Kennedy and the Democratic establishment were breathlessly saying about Glocks in the 1980's.

3D printed guns won't be a thing for quite some time. Chamber pressure in a firearm a minimum of 21,000 psi, which requires metal. Otherwise the would-be shooter is holding a bomb.

But facts don't matter when it comes to gun control and abdicating freedom of speech and expression.

I'm a pro-gun, pro-freedom liberal who cherishes all of the amendments to our constitution... not just the ones I agree with.

Thing is, there are a hell of a lot of liberals in the red states, just look at the election results!

If the Democrats want to take control for generations to come, they have to embrace their roots... which is poor working white people and helping form unions against the greatest wealth disparity since the Guilded Age.

Except, the elitist urban liberal establishment has ceded this ground to the Republicans since the early 1970's. Archie Bunker would have been a Democrat up until 1972, but the Democratic Party got hijacked by the 'educated elite' and gave the working man, their roots, to the Republicans for free.

That's why we have Donald Fucking Trump Today. (In part.)
They didn't win. We fucking gave it away.

(sigh.)
Sorry respond to my own post, again. But I want to clarify that when I said that Democrats need to embrace poor white people, I meant it, but not to the exclusion of poor people of any other race, color, creed or religion.

This isn't a brown vs. white thing. It's rich vs. poor.

That's the narrative that Bernie Sanders ran on and and Mango Mussolini won on. And as long as hard working people are getting fucked, that's the narrative that will win.

What an alarmist title. They aren't distributing them to the world, and it's hardly a "loophole." They're selling digital files on USB flash drives to US citizens, not internationally. The court order temporarily bars them from hosting them online as a free download. Nothing bars them from selling them to US citizens. Not to mention, this is after the government just settled a lawsuit with them, which concluded they could host them online for free download, so this shouldn't be a thing at all anyway.