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DD Appellate Actions
Legionnaires, Our many legal actions proceed apace: In Defense Distributed v. Grewal, No. 1:18-cv-00637-RP (W.D. Tex.) and No. 19-50723 (5th Cir.), the Fifth Circuit has scheduled oral arguments for May 4th. AG Grewal attempted to delay the date with a vague appeal to legal emergencies related to Covid (I have written about this tactic elsewhere), […]
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04.22.20
04.15.20
DEFCAD 2020
Legionnaires, Thank you for making DEFCAD’s March relaunch such a success. We’ve signed up thousands of new members and transferred even more files. It’s a good time to launch a digital product in this country. You may have seen rumblings online from the nation’s many attorneys general that the operation of our site is somehow […]
03.27.20
Contract Y and DEFCAD
Legionnaires, I bring you good tidings. As you head into your weekend lockdowns, I’d like to mark a special occasion. DD resumed shipments of the Ghost Gunner 3 this week. Global supply lines would appear to be stabilizing since February, and DD doesn’t expect further manufacturing interruptions or delays. And a special note on Contract […]
03.10.20
Washington Round 2 Update
Legionnaires, Though it hasn’t been covered much in the media, Judge Jones in Seattle issued an injunction on Friday evening, March 6th, forbidding the State Department from releasing its controls on technical data related to small arms. This order preserves the status quo we have come to know since 2013, which permits no legal way […]
02.19.20
DDII and Third Circuit Update
Legionnaires, Last week we concluded Defense Distributed II‘s briefing in the Fifth Circuit. As a reminder, this 1983 action is the original response to out of state actors like AG Grewal attempting to stop our activities in Texas from the comfort of their own jurisdictions. Texas law would not seem to consider the threats of […]