While most people are told to stay at home with nothing to do, a certain 3D-printing firearms company called Defcad has just recently released a whole trove of gun-making blueprints available only to approved United States residents!
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The Wall Street Journal has just released a statement saying that this company is selling access to their files for only a $50 fee per year that was described by director Cody Wilson as a "Netflix for guns" model.
The company behind the 3D prints
The blueprints have been temporarily released back in the day, and right under the Obama administration, the plan had run afoul of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, otherwise known as the ITAR rules that are responsible for preventing exporting weapons abroad. During the Trump administration, more leeway has been offered, but the approval of this plan has been tied up in heavy legal battles.
Defcad's library was previously created as a part of the whole broader Defense Distribution project had offered about 3,680 files at launch with plans to add even a thousand more. According to the Journal notes, a few of these blueprints are already available in the public domain!
According to a statement by the New York Attorney General Letita James, releasing a step-by-step instruction for the production of said untraceable firearms would then "threaten the safety of not only our nation's residents but people around the globe."
The legalities of these 3D prints
Included in terms of use is a statement that forbids the prominent critics from accessing the system, including law enforcement agencies of several states and even news outlet, The Trace, whose sole focus is to report gun violence.
In addition, the files even let users 3D-print the plastic guns without including a serial number! This specific possibility has been what gun control advocates worry about, including some state attorneys general since this could potentially make the guns even more difficult to trace, let alone detect.
Defcad had previously evaded the ban by sending their gun files in the mail to customers while the blueprints were downloaded a couple of thousand times when they appeared online back in 2018, which means that they have already been circulating for quite some time.
Only for United States Residents
Only residents of the United States have access to these files and can qualify for a subscription of these files. The files would then be conservatively delivered to the subscribers in order for them to be able to create their own 3D printed guns otherwise known by a more popular name, "ghost guns."
As reported by Vice, there has been a surge in purchases of these ghost guns ever since the growing coronavirus (COVID-19). The pandemic has brought a surge of purchases in quite an array of products, and these ghost guns are just one of them.
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