From: nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com
On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:46:11 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
wrote:
>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.
Except that they just made the original design. They didn't make/print
the gun. They didn't choose the material that went into the making of
the gun. So it seems like the responsibility lies with the person who
actually made/printed the gun and not the designer.
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