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Defense Distributed v. Bonta
Legion, Yesterday, with your support, DD and The Second Amendment foundation filed the first Bruen challenge to California’s restrictions on precursor parts and making firearms with modern tools. The bills we’re challenging are AB 1621 and SB 1327. The case is Defense Distributed v. Robert Bonta et al., 1:2022-cv-06200 (C.D. Cal), and can be read […]
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09.01.22
08.18.22
On Open Source at DEFCAD
The political innocence of the artists at work in our community is a given. 3D gun developers draw firstly from their familiarity with computers and design software, and not from a common ideology. No doubt zoomer social distress and alienation is the great motor of the guncad struggle. Because this play struggle can be unpredictable, […]
08.04.22
GG3 Closed Loop Spindle Control
Beta testing is now open for LEGIO members who would like to work with Ghost Gunner 3’s closed-loop spindle control, a feature supported by all GG3 machines shipped since 2019. A summary of the changes GG closed-loop spindle control introduces: GG3’s power output broadens considerably and is now offered at the full RPM range – […]
07.20.22
Everytown v. DEFCAD Summer Special
Eugune Volokh makes a decent point about our *third* appeal (in 8 months) to the Second Circuit. New York would have us give up creator anonymity to litigate jurisdiction, OR give up jurisdiction to litigate anonymously. This is a false choice delivered in bad faith, and we are not interested in taking it. I’d like […]
04.20.22
Biden “Ghost Gun” Rule, Part I
Little of substance has been reported concerning the actual, legal effects and function of the new ATF receiver rule. The text itself is some 364 pages. Defense Distributed will sue ATF to stop this rewrite of the GCA, and I have more detailed notes to share, but my summary impressions of the rule follow below: […]