From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   BTR1701  wrote:   
      
   >Gavin Newsom's Mini-Me, Attorney General Rob Bonta, has filed lawsuits against   
   >several out-of-state companies and individuals for daring to exercise their   
   >1st and 2nd Amendment rights by hosting 3d-print files for gun parts on their   
   >websites. This violates a California law (which itself is being challenged for   
   >violating the Constitution) prohibiting the possession and distribution of   
   >digital files that can be used to produce "ghost guns". Bonta's exciting new   
   >legal theory is that if California makes a thing illegal, no citizen of any   
   >other state can legally do that thing if it allows Californians to skirt   
   >California law.   
      
   >Not only does this violate the 1st and 2nd Amendments, it's unenforceable as a   
   >practical matter, because the internet is worldwide. Even if California   
   >somehow manages to reach its tentacles into other states, it can't reach into   
   >other countries, so these digital files can be distributed around the world   
   >with impunity and Rob Bonta can't do anything about it. A website in Romania   
   >can host "ghost gun" 3d-print files and anyone in California can access them   
   >and Mini-Newsom, has no power to stop it.   
      
   It occurs to me that the federal law shielding gun manufacturers from   
   P.I. and class action lawsuits for injury and death from use of guns in   
   a shooting if they can prove no manufacturing defects shouldn't shield   
   the manufacture of 3D-printed guns, all of which are defective.   
      
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