![]() KIT WALSH: Part of the issue in this case is the question of whether a computer file can be speech that's protected under the First Amendment. So he took files down and then sued the government. Soon the State Department told him he needed permission from the government to post those files because of international arms export rules. It was a single-shot pistol, mostly plastic with a few metal parts purchased at a hardware store. LARGEY: This all started back in 2013 when Wilson made his first 3D-printed gun. One way of ensuring that he has at least the measure beginning is to make sure that the digital content, this intellectual property is always available to him, but further, in the public domain, not something that's for sale but, like, literally part of the commons. WILSON: Well, let's say you're a radical and you actually believe that the individual should have the capacity to own this type of weapon. WILSON: Why provide the right to keep and bear arms for all time on the Internet? He put the blueprints online for anyone to download, and in the past few days, thousands of people have. Wilson's real goal is to design all kinds of guns, untraceable with no serial numbers, that can be made using a 3D printer or a milling machine. His company builds automated milling machines that people can use to make guns at home. He chews a toothpick as he walks around his machine shop at Defense Distributed in Austin. It's a story about the recipe for a gun and what that recipe means before the weapon is made into something real.ĬODY WILSON: That strange screeching sound is milling of a pocket in an AR-15. MATT LARGEY, BYLINE: This is a story about guns, but we're not going to hear any guns - no shots fired - because it's not a story about an actual gun. Matt Largey of member station KUT visited the company in Austin, Texas, that's at the center of the debate. The ruling came after several states sued. But it's unclear how the temporary restraining order can be enforced because the plans have been on the Internet for days now after the federal government allowed them to be. The judge said these untraceable weapons which can be printed from directions downloaded off the Internet could end up in the wrong hands. Late today, a federal judge ruled that online 3D blueprints of guns should be halted. ![]()
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