The Powers That Be Are Trying Everything To Stop Defense Distributed
From Lawfare Blog: Cody Wilson’s legal battle to post his plastic gun schematic is awful, pitting speech values against human lives, raising the specter of more mass shootings, and casting a dark...
View ArticleAmazon’s Gun-Blueprint Ban Is Dangerous
From The Federalist: For $3, you can buy Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto,” a book that indirectly led to the deaths of upwards of 100 million people worldwide. You can also purchase a copy of the...
View ArticleAustralia Bans Possession of Gun Blueprints
From Policy Forum: In 2015 New South Wales amended its laws to outlaw the possession of digital blueprints for firearms and strengthen existing laws prohibiting the manufacture of weapons. Since 2015...
View ArticleFacebook Deletes Pages Of Triple Amputee Vet
From Breibart: Kolfage was the administrator of a number of Facebook pages, notably the pages Right Wing News and Military Grade Coffee, both of which were deleted recently as Facebook attempts to...
View ArticleSignal App Adds More Security
From Wired: A key part of what makes Signal the leading encrypted messaging app is its effort to minimize the amount of data or metadata each message leaves behind. The messages themselves are fully...
View ArticleNY Proposes Social Media Check For Guns
From WCBS: Two New York lawmakers are working to draft a bill that would propose a social media check before a gun purchase.
View ArticleAustralia Wants Backdoors In Software
From Signal: One of the myriad ways that the “Assistance and Access” bill is particularly terrible lies in its potential to isolate Australians from the services that they depend on and use every day....
View ArticleNational Gun Trader To Launch Jan 1st
From The Truth About Guns: The People of the Gun have been bemoaning the lack of a large scale, professional online marketplace for firearms and gear. We’ve been clamoring for someone to step in and...
View ArticleNJ Attacks 1st Amendment To Kill 2nd Amendment
From Reason.com: A federal lawsuit that Defense Distributed and Second Amendment groups filed late Tuesday is challenging New Jersey’s attempt to rid the internet of information about how to make...
View ArticleKids Suspended For Gun Pictures
From Reason: Two male students at Lacey Township High School in New Jersey posted photos of guns on Snapchat. One of the boys captioned his photo with “hot stuff” and “if there’s ever a zombie...
View ArticleYouTube Demonetizes Self Defense Advocate
From Gun Dynamics: Conservative YouTuber and second amendment activist Antonia Okafor reports that her entire channel was stripped of advertising revenue by the Google-owned video platform after she...
View ArticleLawsuit Fails Against Armslist
From Guns.com: In a 5-1 ruling, the court held the federal Communications Decency Act shields the Oklahoma-based website in the case. This had the effect of clearing Armslist of liability in the Brady...
View ArticleDefense Distributed CEO Discusses Future
From Reason: For Paloma Heindorff, who took over as head of the company last year after stints as director of development and vice president of operations, these innovations are an important part of...
View ArticleYouTube Continues Crackdown On Gun Channels
From Bearing Arms: So, YouTube appears to have informally implemented a new, unspoken policy (i.e., I could not find this in the content guidelines) whereby it will demonetize videos which aren’t shot...
View ArticleTX Speaker Blocks Citizens From Facebook Page
From The Truth About Guns: Now, Lone Star Gun Rights has filed suit against Bonnen for blocking their access to his Facebook page (where they’ve tried to counter his dubious claims about the...
View ArticleJudge Says There Should Be A License For 3D Printing Software
From Reason: This week, Judge Robert A. Lasnik of U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, in deciding on motions for summary judgment in that suit, State of Washington et al. v....
View ArticleThe Corporate Surveillance State
From The Guardian: Imagine a government with the power to spy on any critic, reporter or activist. A state with the capacity to extort or silence by tracking not just a person’s movements but her...
View ArticleSaudi Intelligence Infiltrated Twitter
From Buzzfeed: Alzabarah and Ahmad Abouammo, a colleague on Twitter’s global media team, regularly accessed and delivered information that could’ve led Saudi intelligence to identify anonymous...
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