Horse, Barn Door, Some Assembly Required

For those of you following the continuing saga of Distributed Defense who have developed such handy gadgets as a 30-round AR mag, ditto for AK, an AR upper, and most recently the Liberator pistol, the plot predictably thickens.

The U.S. Department of State has ordered DD to take down from their website all the models used to make the parts as they want to investigate if the CAD models might violate export laws regarding firearms.

DD, being a federally lisenced firearm manufacturer, has complied.

The Liberator pistol models alone were downloaded >100,000 times in the first two days after being published.

To add insult to injury:

As Wilson hints, that doesn’t mean the government has successfully censored the 3D-printable gun. While Defense Distributed says it will take down the gun’s printable file from Defcad.org, its downloads–100,000 in just the first two days the file was online–were actually being served by Mega, the New Zealand-based storage service created by ex-hacker entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, an outspoken U.S. government critic. It’s not clear whether the file will be taken off Mega’s servers, where it may remain available for download. The blueprint for the gun and other Defense Distributed firearm components have also been uploaded several times to the Pirate Bay, the censorship-resistant filesharing site.

Pirate Bay also has the files. The horse hasn't just left the barn, it's sending you post cards from island beaches.