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This week will mark the ten year anniversary of the first public exposition of the principles of 3D gun printing. The following remarks were made at SXSW in March 2013. We had only just begun work on Liberator. These words, before a public forum, are the birth of your discourse. Listening to them again, I […]

Mamurius Veturius is regarded by ancient custom as the smith who made the ancilia that hung in the temple of Mars, the war god. Because the Roman calendar originally began in March, Mamurius rituals once marked the transition from the old year to the new in antiquity. We have much to thank the war god […]

Since April our industry was more than busy dealing with Biden’s new ATF rule. Its confused rollout, as well as the frenzied blue state response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Bruen, have made for all kinds of fun and games this summer. Let’s see where we are as of late September 2022. VanDerStok v. […]

It’s once again that time of year where DD travels to New Orleans to watch New Jersey defend its illegal speech law before a hostile appellate panel. The Fifth Circuit ordered arguments on our injunction motion as quickly as possible this year. This haste, and the fact that none other than Jeremy Feigenbaum has to […]

Legion, Yesterday, with your support, DD and The Second Amendment foundation filed the first Bruen challenge to California’s restrictions on precursor parts and making firearms with modern tools. The bills we’re challenging are AB 1621 and SB 1327. The case is Defense Distributed v. Robert Bonta et al., 1:2022-cv-06200 (C.D. Cal), and can be read […]

The political innocence of the artists at work in our community is a given. 3D gun developers draw firstly from their familiarity with computers and design software, and not from a common ideology. No doubt zoomer social distress and alienation is the great motor of the guncad struggle. Because this play struggle can be unpredictable, […]

Beta testing is now open for LEGIO members who would like to work with Ghost Gunner 3’s closed-loop spindle control, a feature supported by all GG3 machines shipped since 2019. A summary of the changes GG closed-loop spindle control introduces: GG3’s power output broadens considerably and is now offered at the full RPM range – […]

Eugune Volokh makes a decent point about our *third* appeal (in 8 months) to the Second Circuit. New York would have us give up creator anonymity to litigate jurisdiction, OR give up jurisdiction to litigate anonymously. This is a false choice delivered in bad faith, and we are not interested in taking it. I’d like […]

Little of substance has been reported concerning the actual, legal effects and function of the new ATF receiver rule. The text itself is some 364 pages. Defense Distributed will sue ATF to stop this rewrite of the GCA, and I have more detailed notes to share, but my summary impressions of the rule follow below: […]

The below scheduling order in Everytown for Gun Safety v. DEFCAD is an unqualified victory. The district judge had ordered discovery and Twitter was set to dox the defendant creators on Dec. 24. We have for the second time arrested this miscarriage of due process and have secured three months to prepare briefs on the […]