Is downloading a firearm from the internet a mark of the technology beast? Could be.
That’s why the State Department ordered the creator of the 3D-blueprint gun to pull the files required to print the gun from the Defense Distributed website.
Cody Wilson — the 25-year-old law student behind Defense Distributed — created the gun prototype and says the free blueprints were downloaded over 100,000 times in the two days before the government intervened. Fifteen of the gun’s 16 parts are made of plastic that is undetectable by airport security.
The gun, named the “Liberator,” was printed on a Stratasys Dimension SST 3D printer and was successfully test-fired last weekend in Texas, prompting some lawmakers, including Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., to call for a ban on printable weapons.
That’s when the State Department stepped in. But Wilson defends his right to bear arms, saying this in response to the government’s intervention:
Wilson argues that everyone should be able to access a firearm and while he immediately complied with the State Department’s request, he told Betabeat, “this is a much bigger deal than guns. It has implications for the freedom of the web.”
Yeah…but…it’s a deadly weapon. Do you think the State Department’s interception infringed on our “internet” rights?
SOURCE: CBS
