You can just as easily argue that Stratasys should have done their due dilligence and consulted with a legal expert on US firearms law, which would have clearly led them to the conclusion that what was being done was LEGAL, making any revocation of the lease at that point a premeditated act in bad faith.
This is absolutely correct.
The ATF has no jurisdiction over the possession or distribution of data files.
I HOPE they try to raid and prosecute someone for distributing 3D printer plans for a firearm... they will be absolutely obliterated in court and whoever they try to victimize will end up living very comfortably from the massive settlement.
These aren't the criteria ATF uses to determine sporting suitability, these are some of the old prohibited features from the 1994 Federal AWB, which sunset (ended) 8 years ago.
The reference to the assembly prohibition is half-right, half wrong, and is probably in reference to the 922(r) parts count requirement for imported weapons in a non-sporting configuration. That line of statute is a nice ugly marriage of authoritarianism and corporatism.
The ATF's process for determining sporting suitability is entirely arbitrary, frequently punitive, and they have literally lied under oath, violated court orders, and defied judicial injunctions to keep it so.
The notorious "Sporting Purposes" clause is rather ambiguous, by design. It gives the ATF an exceptional amount of arbitrary power to declare something to be "sporting" or "unsuitable for sporting purposes" simply by decree. Not so surprisingly, their concept of "sporting" is pretty much restricted to expensive bolt-action deer rifles, aristocratic clay pigeon shotguns, and MAYBE dangerous game double rifles.
The very notion that competition shooting even exists with semi-automatic rifles, handguns, or tactical shotguns is earnestly ignored by the agency. That gives them just enough excuse to (mostly) publicly get away with declaring anything potentially remotely useful for... ahem... social purposes to be "unsporting".
We "inherited" the entire notion of "sporting purposes" justification from - believe it or not - the original Nazi gun control laws. There is congressional record of the author of the 1968 Gun Control Act requesting an english translation of those laws from, if memory serves, either the Library of Congress or the Congressional Research Service. Significant portions of the more restrictive parts of the 1968 GCA are, essentially, cribbed wholesale from Nazi laws, and after nearly 60 years, much of the public has now been acclimated to consider living under Nazi firearm regulations as "reasonable". I wish I was joking.
Understanding why ATF is so inherently hostile to private gun ownership in the first place is a very long, convoluted and unhappy story wrought with corruption, authoritarianism, bureaucratic myopia and a long-accumulating phenomenon of an entire government agency worth of people who continually have chosen to find some way to justify the existence and importance of their jobs and salaries, even when doing what is ethical, constitutional, or simply legal demands otherwise. With several decades of infusion at the upper politically-appointed levels of authoritarian, statist, anti-gun idealogues, you have a quick recipe for bad things and gross abuses of power.
I can think of nothing that would scare the ATF more than 3D printing technology that can literally print a modern firearm becoming affordable and widespread, because it would make them almost entirely irrelevant. They would fade away in obsolete obscurity much like a federal bureau that existed to tightly control horse buggy design and possession, faced with the announcement by Henry Ford of the automobile for the common man.
As a MS FlightSimulator art dev alum, those of us who build stuff like FS and Xplane usually refer to them and try to think of them as sims, not games. Which is part of the reason the FAA has begun to as well. : )
...and that's post about the precise details of my plan on the internet.
OPSEC, motherfuckers.
Neither of you have a clue what a barrel shroud actually is. Just like the fools who wrote the original federal AWB.
A barrel shroud is a metal heat shield that covers the forward part of the barrel. It was ORIGINALLY designed as a cooling system for belt-fed machine gun barrels; it later was adopted for combat shotgun barrels so that the user could grip them properly for the employment of a bayonet.
You don't attach anything to a barrel shroud. That's an accessory rail. They're two completely different things. Please become even slightly informed about the technical specifics of what you're arguing about...
...from somebody who doesn't drink or go to bars and therefore has no familiarity with mixed drinks or the culture of bar attendance. Like, say, Mormons, Muslims, or... eh, me.
...it won't end well, now, will it?
People don't just magically stop having bills after 35, individuals are getting married and starting families later in life, and software / tech careers are becoming the linchpin of what's left of the American middle class.
Effectively cut them off from their career fields at such a pivotal point in their lives, en masse... see what you reap. You may not be doing much hiring of any kind when they're done shoving your dumb, pathologically stock-price-obsessed ass effectively out of society.
My wife is Menominee (one of the Algonquin peoples). She zeroed in on those beaded armbands and the choker and instantly knew what she was looking at.
And, tada, she was right.
Props to Ubisoft for achieving that level of accuracy and historical fidelity.
The Assassin Order frowns on your failure of a crosspost and has dispatched Stabs-Through-TCP/IP to... correct the situation.
Beadwork armbands, moccasins, ponybead necklace, fringed quiver, ornamented bow and belt, and tomahawk.
Messer Ezio's great-grandson here is *not* an English colonist. He most likely speaks an eastern dialect of one of the Algonquin peoples and languages.
You can suck my cock, and I can not buy your game. So there you go! You've successfully shot yourself in the foot and sucked a cock at the same time.
That's exactly what I plan to do. Clip a TrackIR Pro head tracker to this thing, and I have the most balls-to-the-wall home flight sim setup available. I already have a pair of stereoscopic wearable display goggles (Vuzix), but the low resolution makes them practically useless for combat flight sim use because you can't pick out aircraft at long range.
If these are even 720p... we're in business.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
