At the last minute, US justice stopped the manufacture of weapons with 3D printers – 07/31/2018

At the end of June, the Federal Government authorized the Defense Distributed Group to put online the digital plans allowing the artisbad manufacture of weapons to fire with a 3D printer. It's after a five-year court battle during which the government of former President Barack Obama argued that these textbooks violated the gun export laws before two federal and provincial judges. that the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. 19659002] These plastic objects work like a real weapon. As they are not industrialized by an authorized manufacturer, they do not have a serial number, they do not ring when they go through a metal detector and can not be detected. And, if they were allowed by law, whoever owned one of these machines in his house could make his guns and rifles.

It was expected that the training programs were put online today, but Cody Wilson, head of Defense Distributed, has Yesterday told Wired magazine that he had already published these instructions. And, according to the magazine, "they have already been downloaded thousands of times."

"I published them on July 27," said Wilson. "The date of August 1st is for marketing purposes."

Activists, politicians and some police officers were horrified and worried that anyone could make a weapon from the comfort of their home, it seems exactly what

A coalition of arms control groups appealed to a federal court with the intention of blocking the decision authorizing Wilson and his company to publish plans to manufacture firearms with printers. 3D

"There is a market for this type of weapon, and not only among enthusiasts and collectors," says Nick Suplina , legal director and policies in Everytown for Gun Safety, one of the groups that went to court. "And there is a real desire and opportunity for profit in the criminal world".

President Donald Trump himself, generally a defender of the right to bear arms, was skeptical of liberalizing the sale of digital drawings to make weapons with 3D printers.

For the organization Weapons Owners in the USA. (GOA, for its acronym in English), this pact, on the contrary, means "freedom and conforms to the second amendment" of the US Constitution, which protects the right to bear arms, said Jordan Stein, director of communications of this groupe

"Those who hate weapons always want to focus on their illicit uses and ignore the overwhelming amount of good that they do.In fact, guns are used 16 to 100 times more often to save lives than to remove them, "says Stein, [19659002] Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, first publishes downloadable drawings for the productio n guns. in 3D printers in 2013. The document was downloaded approximately 100,000 times, until the State Department ordered it to stop on the grounds that it was violating federal law on the export of weapons because some aircraft have been downloaded by outsiders.

Experts in the arms industry claim that weapons are only the modern equivalent of what is already legal and available: the ability to bademble one's own weapon to fire with traditional materials and methods at home without serial numbers. They badure that this type of weapons will not attract criminals because printers for their manufacture are extremely expensive and the weapons are not very durable.

In the middle of the controversy on Tuesday night, the Judge Lasnik has given way to the request of the eight states that have sued the government to authorize the publication of plans to manufacture weapons with a 3D printer. States argued that this authorization put national security at risk.

In turn, Defense Distributed filed its own lawsuit in Texas on Sunday, claiming to be the victim of a "program of intimidation and harbadment for ideological reasons" that violates their rights under the First Amendment .

Source: agencies