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Fox: DHS Memo

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:35:00 -0500

Speaks a nameless, hubristic praetorian:

“The only security procedure to catch [the 3D firearms] is a pat down. Is America ready for pat-downs at every event?”

This is a non-credible, generalized threat. The security state has just been asked to prove itself more than an illusion. It cannot.

A police state capable of stopping the Liberator is a greater threat than terrorism itself.

DD ITAR Update 1

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:23:40 -0500

A few have criticized how quickly I responded to the DDTC and began participating in their regulatory process. It is said I should have stood and fought if I believed in keeping the files free, instead of complying. This compliance has been viewed as some kind of ultimate one, as if I don’t intend to do anything else.

“No takedowns, ever.” Was a motto I had built into my vision of DEFCAD.com, not DEFCAD.org, and it referred to a strategy for dealing with intellectual property claims and social pressure- this is NOT the strategy DD/DEFCAD.org can adopt with the Department of State. It seems we may have to have our rights declared in court to simply keep developing gun files to put into the public domain. DD’s right to exist is being challenged.

DD has maintained counsel for many months, and it happens that my strategy is not to just have DEFCAD seized and DD sued out of existence. No, as ever, I think DD/DEFCAD can win. The Liberator was a victory. DEFCAD serving near a million files is a victory. Letting the State Department get that global spotlight was a victory.

The Internet was asked to choose between guns and the control of information. Guess what it chose? We created an important moment for understanding a future with 3D Printing, and the Liberator is rightly everywhere.

Now the demonstration is over, and the hard work of having all our rights preserved is just beginning. ITAR might cover 3DP technical data for generations if DD doesn’t intelligently challenge this assertion of authority.

These politicians have looked like absolute monsters in the vacuum.

I will not apologize for knowing how to choose the battle.

Daily Mail

Sun, 12 May 2013 01:51:00 -0500

The DM has engaged in an act of terrorism to show us that Eurostar trains will now only be safe when the public itself is eliminated.

From the DDTC

Sun, 12 May 2013 01:05:00 -0500

Letter from Department of State to Defense Distributed

The Liberator

Mon, 06 May 2013 06:51:00 -0500

Universalization

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:21:55 -0500

The political “discussion” about mental health, the background check, and gun control is invidious and follows a disciplinary desire.

Remember that power produces truth. Individual subjects are made administrative objects through a documentary process:

The mental health evaluation, the questionnaire, the application.

The tendency is toward an ultimate result where no one really meets an artificial behavioral “norm,” and all are unfit to own a weapon.

Case in point.

This is not a discovered truth about reality.

Power produces.

4473 (11)(m):

Have you ever been prescribed psychotropics?

The world’s first 3D-printable AK-47 magazine. The...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:30:00 -0500

The world’s first 3D-printable AK-47 magazine. The Feinstein.

DEFCAD.org

WikiWeps

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:34:00 -0500

Going to the range to test a v3 Feinstein AK magazine. Release has been super slow on this.

Look, kids. You can hack the fascists with their own device!

A Stratasys machine will print the first Wiki Weapon.

April Fools' Day

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Real seizure? Fake seizure?

It’s a joke either way.

A documentary about DD’s work in January. Maybe another...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:10:00 -0500

A documentary about DD’s work in January. Maybe another will show you what we’re up to right now…

One-third of our way to DEFCAD.com. Thanks for the support.

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:17:23 -0500

One-third of our way to DEFCAD.com. Thanks for the support.

Opened

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:15:00 -0500

Cornered by DEFCAD and the prospect of Liberty, The New York Times publicly abandons the word “Open.”

Meanwhile, the eurocrats tap bank deposits because zomg TBTF (time to consider Bitcoin).

Meanmeanwhile, look who has a license to manufacture firearms:

The makers aren’t doing it. So we will.What does 3D...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:32:45 -0500

The makers aren’t doing it. So we will.

What does 3D Printing mean?

The Feinstein AK Mag

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:42:00 -0600

The Senate? How many printers do they have?

I’ll be giving a speech at SXSW Interactive on March 11....

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:15:00 -0600

I’ll be giving a speech at SXSW Interactive on March 11. It’s going to be one to remember.

Details here.

We launched the DD web store last night as well. Proceeds will go to Defense Distributed.

Printed AR Lower v5 Review

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:30:00 -0600

Seems it’s been a while since we’ve done a decent write up. The new AR lower was SLA and FDM printed. The FDM printer was a used Dimension SST, and the material was p400 ABS.

This lower was built out horizontally, with improved cross sectional areas at the rear take down pins, and more curved and filled spaces below the buffer tower and inside the rear of the receiver. The idea was to take out as many angles and stress risers as possible in the rear, build out critical thicknesses for strength, and let the piece act more as a spring.

These changes had been in note form for close to two months, but, as you may be aware, we had been directing a significant part of our efforts at magazines in that time. And yes, AK magazines are being tested again this weekend.

Importantly, we used a 1/8” compression bushing in the back of the piece for a rear take down pin, but a 1/8” shoulder bolt would work too. These smaller holes were touched up with a drill bit.

This is the first publicly printed AR lower demonstrated to withstand a large volume of .223 without structural degradation or failure. The actual count was 660+ on day 1 with the SLA lower. The test ended when we ran out of ammunition, but this lower could easily withstand 1,000 rounds.

Day 2, we broke out the FDM lower where, after 88 rounds, the rifle experienced an unrelated mechanical failure (the bolt had a worn cam pin that prevented the bolt from opening all the way). Army protocol says beat the buttstock on the ground, but after some effort this only made a split at the top of the buffer tower, ending the test.

But the big takeaway is that you can do what we did on a printer like the Ultimaker or RepRap. The pieces can be made cheaply, and the file is free at DEFCAD.

And about DEFCAD. Amazing things are happening there. My personal apologies for the times the site has been down. We were unprepared for the volume of visitors and downloads, and have also been hopping VPS’s.

I will include a time lapse of one of these prints soon.

Finally, I want to address the communications and requests we get asking us to explain our printing setup or make recommendations: We are working on releasing a primer. We understand the need to get simple tutorials out for the beginning gun printer. Recommendations are more difficult, since we’ve yet to experiment with more than a few materials across a mere 5 machines. We’re still learning as well, but that’s no excuse for not sharing.

Wither Gun Control.

Defense Distributed welcomes Congress back from vacation.

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:59:26 -0600

Defense Distributed welcomes Congress back from vacation.

In other news, we’ve got printed AR lowers figured out.

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:47:17 -0600

In other news, we’ve got printed AR lowers figured out.

Do you gentlemen have, or do you intend to make, plans for 3D-printed FAL, PTR-91/G3, & M14/M1A magazines?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:30:27 -0600

We intend to. But would need the mags loaned to us at the present.

Can you help out there?

All going into CAD. All before Congress does a thing.

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:18:08 -0600

All going into CAD. All before Congress does a thing.