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Except this time, they were looking for one they could exploit, not close.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has announced a transfer in jurisdiction over certain technologies that could be used to 3D print firearms.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a preliminary injunction that removed such technologies from the U.S. Munitions List (USML) and made them exempt from International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
In response, the BIS has now declared that anyone engaged in manufacturing, exporting or ‘furnishing’ 3D printed firearms, are subject to Export Administration Regulations (EAR) instead.
This is another attempt to try and ban 3D printing of firearms. Via a loophole, they found they could use export controls to accomplish what they set out to do when they took on and lost bigly to Defense Distributed last year. This is how they intend to circumvent that ruling.
This will fail, too. Code is free speech.
Some analysis:
Related coincidence: I just heard about this, and I'm wearing my FPC "Can't Stop the Signal" t-shirt today.
But as usual plans will be available at the dark web and guns are actually quite simple to manufacture anyway they are basic items and don't have to be that sophisticated.