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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Activist Wins Right to Publish Instructions for 3D Printed Guns
July 18, 2018
This screen grab from a YouTube video shows a demonstration of the Liberator - a 3D printed handgun - carried out in 2013 by Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed. (YouTube)
The United States has settled a case with a gun rights activist that permits him to publish instructions for making guns with a 3-D printer.
Activist Cody Wilson began legal action against the government in 2015 after it forced him to remove files he had placed on the internet. The files provided directions for making a handgun with a 3-D printer.
Wilson had made such a gun himself and had successfully test-fired it in 2013. He named the gun the Liberator.
Tens of thousands of people downloaded plans to make their own gun. Wilson has called such weapons “downloadable guns.” But the U.S. State Department said Wilson’s files broke laws on international gun trafficking.
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Wilson and his legal team argued in court that the State Department order violated Wilson’s right to free speech. They noted that the files shared on the internet contained only plans, not weapons or gun parts.
Wilson teamed up in the case with an organization called the Second Amendment Foundation. The Second Amendment guarantees Americans the right to keep and bear arms.
The foundation recently announced it had reached a settlement with the U.S. government. It said the agreement - offered by the U.S. Justice Department - permits Wilson to legally put his instructional materials back on the internet.
The Justice Department did not publicly comment on the settlement. The agreement was confirmed in court documents provided to several major media organizations.
The Second Amendment Foundation’s founder and Executive Vice President, Alan M. Gottlieb, praised the settlement. Gottlieb called the decision a “victory for free speech.” He added that he believed the settlement represented a major defeat for groups seeking to increase government gun controls.
A message on Wilson’s Defense Distributed website announced he plans to relaunch the website DEFCAD on August 1. This will permit him to freely share instructions for making 3-D printed guns. “The age of the downloadable gun formally begins,” the message reads.
"I consider it a truly grand thing," Wilson told Wired magazine about the decision. "It will be an irrevocable part of political life that guns are downloadable, and we helped to do that."
The DEFCAD website currently lists information on a number of other 3-D printed weapons, in addition to the first gun introduced in 2013. These include the semi-automatic models AR-10 and AR-15, as well as a Beretta M9 handgun and others.
Gun control supporters are expected to oppose the settlement. They have argued against 3-D guns because they can be made without the usual government registration requirements. These guns also do not have manufacturing numbers for identification purposes. Since there is no record or history for guns created this way, they have also been called “ghost” weapons.
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Wired magazine has named Wilson on several of its yearly lists of the “most dangerous people on the internet.”
Wilson told the magazine the new website will accept instructional materials from users as well. His goal is to provide a searchable, user-created collection of information on how to make any firearm.
Wilson’s organization also sells some weapons that are 80 percent complete. He explains in a website video that because they are 20 percent unfinished, he is permitted to sell them as pieces of metal instead of guns. Buyers of the unfinished firearms can then use their own equipment to complete the weapon.
I’m Bryan Lynn.
Bryan Lynn wrote this story for VOA Learning English. Caty Weaver was the editor.
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Words in This Story
instructions – n. information explaining how to do or use something
download – v. copy computer programs or other information electronically using the Internet
ghost – n. the soul of a dead person thought of as living in an unseen world
bear – v. to carry
formally – adj. officially
grand – adj. very good or enjoyable
irrevocable – adj. not capable of being changed
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Transcript
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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we're Austin Texas at the go scanner
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Factory
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I'm the director of defense distributed
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I oversee operations which are mostly
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manufacturing of the ghost gun our CNC
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machine
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primarily we ship our products our low
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receivers and our ghost gunner
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[Music]
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the same way people don't want their
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phones read by third party or their
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email read people want rifle privacy and
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it's become kind of culturally edgy in
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the gun world to have your own ghost gun
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they got like oh yeah you got X&Y; but
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have you built your own AR yet and not
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only that but like you know is it a
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ghost gun both a test of skill and then
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I think it's responding to the uncertain
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political environment that people at
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least want to know they got one or two
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that nobody knows about and we help them
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do it
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[Music]
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the way it works with the AR that's the
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component of the gun with the mark so if
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that component is totally finished it's
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registered and seen as a gun by the
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government so if it's unfinished it's
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not a gun yet the question is how
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unfinished is unfinished Court
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precedents have said that at 80%
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manufacture it can be sold like a piece
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of metal I'm not like a gun you sell it
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there and we let you machine it take it
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the rest away so
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[Music]
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I just wanted to build a software for
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printable guns I thought the internet
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would serve guns one day and that was
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like the most real vision of anything
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political I'd ever independently thought
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about
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[Music]
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the government shut down deaf CAD our
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wave sharing these files and doing this
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work and that leaves a big hole only
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does it interrupt your life but it
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interrupts it like creatively it
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interrupts like your imagination and
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you're forced back into conformity in
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the world of work and of course there
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was the threat of prosecution and other
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things because they had to make it
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criminal for us to do what we did
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they stopped the sharing of files okay
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let's work on the hardware stuff because
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they didn't stop that there was this
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demand to save the first project you
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know you need half a million dollars how
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you gonna get it I had to have some way
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to get bigger than my problem and I get
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as big as my problem in this country
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that means selling somebody something
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and making money
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[Music]
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I knew it wasn't realistic to try to
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fundraise for this lawsuit I would have
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to start a business simply so I could
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stack enough cash back to the government
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it's the main part of the CNC mill I
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think I see why they haven't made it
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before because it is not worth the
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trouble but you know that's what it
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takes it takes one crew people who were
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just willing to suffer to do it and we
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went from a concept that was like an
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edge case to something that has a proven
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desktop demand and it started with the
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fact that all home CNC still relies on
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inadequate kit spindles that don't have
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high tolerances and concentricity
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because no one was really truly willing
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to suffer to build that and prove that
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out giving you the ability to make
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something to military specification but
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like affordably because I could easily
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put this current package together done
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it on contract and sold it as a premium
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product or something you know with the
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nice for decorations four or five
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thousand dollar machine but by selling
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this application of the machine and by
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truly trying to make it as cheap as
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possible we forced ourselves to really
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iterate and build something that people
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just didn't care to build before into a
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package because I don't think people
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really care about giving you industrial
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capacity they don't really care about
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this and we
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[Music]
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people want to feel like even in their
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isolation that even in their despair
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that they have a sovereignty there by
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like that they are in charge of their
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own lives and even if we don't have the
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same words for it are divided by our
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politics we all sense this kind of plan
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to separate us from our capacities and
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this insistence that we live life as
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passive consumer of media objects and
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like this attitude extends to everything
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right this is unhappy future of
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industrial society any opposition of
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that and this includes
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reindustrialization is its political
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resistance and so it taps into people's
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political frustrations both at the gun
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level and just existential a little I
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want to build to make something well
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here you go
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[Music]
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