If ever one needed proof that liberal judges don’t believe in the Constitution the court action regarding the 3D copy gun should remove all doubt. Two judges, two opposing opinions.
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik ruled the U.S. should have followed multiple procedures when removing items from the U.S. Munitions List. Congress should have been informed, triggering a 30-day notice period and the U.S. Secretary of State should have informed the Secretary of Defense.
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U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin, Texas, denied the request for an order by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence at a hearing, saying he would state the reasons for his decision in a written order to follow.
Two judges one fact situation, two diametrically opposed decisions. Since one judge is in Seattle, (9th Circuit Court of Appeals) and the other in Austin, (5th Circuit Court of Appeals), this will not be resolved at the Circuit Court level. The 9th is the most overturned court in the nation and this decision should continue the legacy.
It is appropriate to remind people that when the framers of the Constitution came up with the Bill of Rights (the First Ten Amendments) they weren’t giving rights to the people. They acknowledged that some rights were “natural rights” beyond the ability of man or government to grant in Declaration of Independence. They saw the Bill of Rights as a limitation of government power.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
It appears that “Hobson’s Choice” is in operation here, but that is a misnomer. There really is no choice. Liberals, up until the politically correct movement, would scream long and loud about government censorship. To ban the publication of the instructions on the Internet is government censorship. The First and Second Amendment are co-equal and the government can’t impose on one at the expense of the other.
There is also the issue of impossibility. There is a saying once something gets on the Internet it is there forever. Pandora’s Box has been opened and there is no closing it now. In the interests of free speech, here is a link to the plans.
I know what you are thinking, you were a cop for thirty years. Why would you pass along plans for an untraceable gun that can be made at home? The short answer is The Anarchists Cookbook and The Mini-Manual for the Urban Guerilla. Both were written in the 60’s and were “how to” books on how to bring down western civilization. The truth is both were based on false premises and information. Any erstwhile revolutionary that followed the instructions in those books was destined to fail.
There are 3-D printers and there are 3-D printers. There are also different compounds for rendering 3-D parts. Not all are created equal. The revolutionary that uses the wrong compound to make a 3-D gun is likely to have the gun blow up, on first use. Secondly, as a weapon of aggression, a 3-D gun only works where there are no guns.
The current 3-D gun is called the Liberator. The name has been used before, in much the same context. There’s that history thing again,”those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.” The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, manufactured over a million Liberator pistols for distribution in Nazi-occupied Europe. There is no historical record as to the effectiveness of the Liberator pistol.
The situation in modern day America is different than Nazi-occupied Europe of the WWII era. America has a gun culture that obviates the need for the 3-D gun. Why build a 3-D version of the Liberator, or lower receiver for an AR-15 when the real thing is readily available? The current hysteria has nothing to do with the danger posed by such a weapon and everything to do with the left’s desire to disarm all Americans.