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Deadly Gifts
Yesterday Defense Distributed filed its long-delayed 3D gun brief with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. This one has become the grandfather case to determine the free speech value of CAD files. Its anomalous procedural history shows just how dangerous the federal courts have found it over the years. Gift Exchange Justin Lee at Compact […]
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03.14.24
03.08.24
VanDerStok Respondents’ Brief
This week saw FPC’s and New Jersey’s briefs at the Supreme Court in VanDerStok, the “frame or receiver” rule case against the ATF. Today we filed our brief as well, joined by Polymer80 and JSD Supply. The differences are merely in emphasis. Where FPC spends paragraphs on Due Process vagueness and the Second Amendment’s necessary […]
03.02.24
Gatalogy
Last night I joined Garret on YouTube to answer questions concerning DEFCAD in support of victims of domestic FOSS. One of the questions we take up is: Why does DEFCAD require a membership even though most 3D gun files have free software licenses? On June 9, 2021, BIS sent Defense Distributed the first and only […]
02.08.24
VanDerStok 2024 and John Walker
ATF petitioned for cert in VanDerStok v. Garland, our “frame and receiver rule” case that The Fifth Circuit just won’t let Joe Biden win. It’s nice to read the words “Defense Distributed” in yet another Supreme Court petition. Polymer80 and JSD Supply have agreed to join our pending brief, where we will also request the […]
10.20.23
On Getting Supremed
For the second time in as many weeks, the Supreme Court had to intervene to rescue Biden’s “Ghost Gun” rule from the judgments of O’Connor and the Fifth Circuit. Defense Distributed’s injunctions were vacated twice! Winning hurts, and in our experience is one of the fastest ways to lose. The press buried us everywhere. It […]