Gun availability via printer - maybe!

[Mortblanc]

The 3-D pistol has been removed from the internet by our STATE Department!

This may mean nothing to you in Britain but it is a real development here.

Until now the State Department has had nothing to do with firearms or the internet. Firearms are controlled by a special section of the treasury department called the ATFE (alcohol/tobacco/firearms/explosives).

The reasons for the State Department stepping in was due to international arms control treaty.

The plans for the weapon were downloaded 100,000 times with the largest number outside the U.S. going to Spain, then GB. The website has gone dark but the plans are out there now and can be obtained by anyone with the ability to track them.

For me it is not the design of the weapon, the means of producing it or the materials that are important, it is access to the plans as freedom of information and resistance to censorship as well as access to the ability to defend oneself.