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A telling piece of public opinion-setting from NPR this morning. https://www.npr.org/player/embed/nx-s1-5099467/nx-s1-5b6c1ff5-2731-426b-b81b-8b3e0cb4f0b2 Steven Inskeep invites Martin Kaste to share the good news of the demise of Polymer80, who “still [hopes] the Supreme Court can save them.” David Pacino of Giffords led the suits that ended the rash of murders driven by this American ghost gun seller, […]

Of the eleven amicus briefs filed yesterday at the Supreme Court in Garland v. VanDerStok, I’d like to highlight the NRA’s. Joseph Greenlee expands on his previous work to explain how the right to privately build firearms is “deeply rooted in our nation’s historical tradition” and is a necessary part of the Second Amendment. We digital […]

Brief of RespondentsYesterday DD filed its Brief of Respondents in Garland v. VanDerStok, which will be argued before the Court on October 8th. The filed version is also at the Court’s website here. Next: Reply & Oral Argument Our side’s amici will roll in over the next week, and I expect some good ones, but we will, as […]

A friendly journo from WGBH Boston asked me what we think of Massachusetts H4885 serializing all the guns and banning all the gun equipment. I’ll tell you what I told her. The journalist asked where I got the idea that guns should be unserialized in the first place. I said a couple hundred years ago […]

Internet detectives have recently discovered JStark’s appearance as “K” on the “Incel” podcast from late 2019. I know JStark’s voice well and can personally confirm its authenticity here. Published six months before the FGC-9, what’s most notable in this interview is JStark’s fatalism and biological reductionism. He is convinced he has a serious, congenital mental […]

To demonstrate how much the logic of copyright has rotted his brain, the President of The Gatalog Foundation insists that it was he, and not FPC, the NCLA or Mike Cargill, who won in the recent Garland v. Cargill decision. How did old Fudd Busters manage this achievement? You see, he commissioned the images in […]

Ashley hard at work!

There’s a weird trend in our space of ersatz anarchists more or less begging for federal protection of their files. Just a sample: Big maudlin. One blanches. It’s become a convenient piece of rhetoric that no one can sue DEFCAD because they’d have to give up anonymity. This is, of course, not true. Our Everytown […]

Yesterday the Supreme Court granted certiorari in VanDerStok, the so-called “frame and receiver” case where Defense Distributed and Polymer80 are major intervenor plaintiffs. The case’s docket page can be found here. The Court has posted the case’s “Questions Presented” document, which you can download below. In short, these questions are: Briefing and Argument July 8 […]

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 […]