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“We Regret to Inform You That ‘GatGPT’ Is Exactly What It Sounds Like.” This from Futurism, a news site premised not on documenting our cultural movement toward a scarcely imaginable future, but on producing a nostalgia for our recent social-democratic past. Defense Distributed and DEFCAD developed the WASP pistol entirely on GatGPT, which we now […]

Last Friday, at precisely the moment you were watching those two dozen YouTube videos about The President GUTTING the NFA in a blow for American FREEDOM, the Trump Administration noticed its appeal in Defense Distributed v. Blanche, formerly known as the VanDerStok “frame or receiver” case. Why would Trump want to rescue and restore the […]

A quick note and word of thanks regarding yesterday’s decision in the Northern District of Texas. Judge O’Connor decided what was left of the VanDerStok case, granting DD and SAF summary judgment on our Second and Fifth Amendment claims. The decision, Defense Distributed v. Blanche, No. 4:22-cv-00691-O, 2026 WL 2413200 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 17, 2026), upholds the […]

As we wait out this final day for Trump’s ex-lawyer Todd Blanche to file an appeal in Silencer Shop Foundation v. ATF, I’ll write a post for the sake of its last sentence. There are good pieces on the unfolding consequences of this NFA decision. Let me add that on this timeline 80% silencer kits […]

In the days leading to July 14th, 1789, their municipal government called on Parisians to arm themselves and form militia units to resist the professional troops ordered by Louis XVI to surround their city and Versailles. Said one elector: “in a well-constituted state, every citizen is obliged to bear arms in defense of the fatherland.” The Parisian […]

On June 5 the San Francisco court overseeing the California v. Gatalog case ordered a special round of jurisdictional discovery. The court said that while it agreed with The People of California that The Gatalog should be sent to the shadow realm, it didn’t want to do so without a “complete record.” So, from now […]

Relying almost entirely on a rumor of better rules to come, Jennifer VanDerStok and friends have dismissed their multi-year case against the Biden frame or receiver rule in the Northern District of Texas. This leaves Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment Foundation as the only remaining parties in the litigation. Last week we moved for […]

Last week, the Fifth Circuit entered an order denying YouTube’s petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to compel transfer of our case to the Northern District of California. This denial followed comprehensive adversarial proceedings. Both sides fully briefed the merits and submitted Rule 28(j) supplemental authorities. Even the State of Texas intervened as amicus […]

Zé Carioca has been arrested in Rio das Pedras, a municipality in São Paulo, Brazil. His investigators, part of an operation called “Shadowgun,” said Zé was an engineer who used a false name on an online forum that disclosed tests and guidelines for how to manufacture ghost guns at home. According to these investigators, Zé […]

No doubt you’ve heard the news that California filed suit against the The Gatalog for $8,000,000 in San Francisco. Who could have seen this coming? A Gatalog spokesman is, predictably, now nowhere to be found. That organization, which in 2021 claimed thousands of members, has of late degraded to a mere mob. One defendant began […]