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Reason Lists Arguments on how the State Department is violating 1st and 2nd Amentment Rights (3D Print files)
A very well presented summation of the arguments.
Cody Wilson and the Second Amendment Foundation sued the State Department in federal court in Texas last week over the Department's shutting down Wilson and his company Defense Distributed from putting CAD files to make 3D guns on the Internet, claiming that doing so might—might!—make him essentially an illegal international arms trafficker under International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
Wilson saw that as basic prior restraint on speech, speech with a nexus on the right to keep and bear arms, and executed with a decided lack of due process, being made entirely on threat that he might be breaking the law, but stop what he's doing anyway. I discussed and quoted from the suit at length last week.
Today I obtained a further filing in the suit, a “Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction.” Below, a summation of the interesting arguments in it.
It begins by pointing out that the ITAR regulations scope and vagueness leaves many citizens, in addition to apparently the State Department itself, in the dark as to whether a given action or product violates ITAR by being “exported” and the “commodity jurisdiction” requests that citizens must go through to find out if they are subject to it are not treated in any efficient or swift manner.
Source: http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/05/reason-lists-arguments-on-how-state.html
