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On Raids and Raiding
Last week ATF raided and arrested the moderators of a Discord server connected to the interstate development and sale of 3D NFA items. Though one of these moderators may have been a confidential informant, word is the raids were simply the result of an(other) anonymous tip. When a journalist asked me if this is the […]
Publication Date
04.22.25
04.01.25
All Fools’ Day
Reason has two excellent pieces on the takeaways from Bondi v. VanDerStok. Today’s is a survey of the judicial cowardice of the Court’s “Salerno rule” by professor Josh Blackman, a Defense Distributed attorney. The Salerno rule was how Judge Sutton of the Sixth Circuit saved Obamacare’s individual mandate back in 2011. It featured in Justice […]
03.26.25
Bondi v. VanDerStok
Repeat Supreme Court losers Defense Distributed and Ghost Gunner are proud to present the death of the 80% and kit gun markets, compliments of the Trump administration and AG Bondi, whose name should be on this opinion. The frame and receiver case is at long last decided, and since some of the plaintiffs (RIP Polymer80) […]
01.23.25
Benchy, IP, and 3D Guns
After remixes of the famous 3DBenchy model started being pulled from Printables, LEGIO members wrote in asking if this kind of IP war is possible in 3D guns. The answer is no, thankfully. The 3DBenchy model, “a popular benchmark for desktop FDM 3D printers,” has always been offered under a Creative Commons BY-ND 4.0 license, which forbids the […]
11.20.24
The Fuddness unto Death
There are many ways to characterize the internal division of 3D2A. Yesterday I spoke of ontologization and how “the community” chose to cope with federal and state controls. As they began to accumulate indictable felonies, The Gatalog’s means simply became its ends: Disavowal of the law, of property, of Anarchy and even Open Source software. […]