When Cody Wilson, late of Defense Distributed, began selling CAD plans to build an AR-15 rifle, he was lauded for daring to get around a judge’s order that enjoined him from distributing his files for free. For people in states that prevented electronic transmission of those files, he sent USB drives by snail mail.
But there was a problem. The files Defense Distributed was distributing — at least those for the AR-15 — had some bugs.
Some dedicated DefCad fans identified the problems with the CAD files and communicated them to Wilson.
They found problems with the upper.
The biggest headache by far caused by the @DefDist AR-15 assembly was the upper receiver. The issues were many: Abysmally modeled mag recess, incorrect track for the charging handle, incorrect geometry of the forward assist cavity and missing parts for it and the dust cover. pic.twitter.com/0pucgcNsQb
— Ivan (@IvanTheTroll12) February 20, 2019
And the magazine.
The next striking issue that we identified with the @DefDist AR15 was the magazine model dimensions. Other models found on the Internet were just as faulty. By using various blueprints we managed to model a blueprint accurate magazine necessary to check lower and carrier fitment. pic.twitter.com/Vw1KULixl4
— Ivan (@IvanTheTroll12) February 19, 2019
There were problems with the bolt, too. One of those fans who posts at Twitter under the name @IvanTheTroll12 (who says he’s an engineer), tells us that there were design problems with just about every part of the AR-15 design that Defense Distributed was sending out.
The faulty bolt in the original Defense Distributed files is what initiated the endeavor of making a new proper AR-15 assembly. The original bolt was not modeled on spec and the channel for the firing pin wouldn’t even let the pin hit the primer of the cartridge. pic.twitter.com/wk4MlF7wuI
— Ivan (@IvanTheTroll12) February 18, 2019
So, with Wilson’s blessing, they set to work fixing them. It took them months of work to arrive at a finished product. As IvanTheTroll12 tells TTAG, this is what they came up with:
It is a to-spec collection of 3d CAD files that detail every single part in an AR15A3 style rifle. Down to the pin and spring. It includes several CAD formats to allow the widest possible audience to look at the model.
It also includes the original M16A1/2 Technical data package – a PDF file of all the original Colt blueprints used to make the M16’s back in the day. This was obtained via FOIA from the Army.
To date, no AR-15 assembly is anywhere near this nice. People have suggested these parts were always on Grabcad, but when you have them assemble the parts, the errors show up clear as day. Parts just made wrong.
Not any more. Defense Distributed looked at their work and liked it. So much so that they planned to use them instead.
And then Wilson encountered…personal legal difficulties. IvanTheTroll12 and his partner then began to work with Defense Distributed’s new leadership to get the new and improved files out. And then the state of New Jersey targeted Defense Distributed. DefDist sued the state and that’s all still playing out in the courts.
New Jersey’s Attorney General, Gurbir Grewal, also went after codeisfreespeech.com and they’ve since stopped making their 3D files available as well while the suit is pending.
In the mean time IvanTheTroll and his partner had a perfectly good set of precise CAD plans for every part of an AR-15 rifle. And on February 23 — yes, 223 — they released them.
It’s time. The AR-15. For you. For everyone. Forever.
Share it. Make this something the powers-that-be cannot undo. This project is yours now – each and every one of you.
Direct download link: https://t.co/qA3T3CZnp1 pic.twitter.com/6PV6HyV9af
— Ivan (@IvanTheTroll12) February 23, 2019
Will Twitter take the tweets down? Who knows. Just in case, you can access the files here.
We asked IvanTheTroll if he’s concerned that New Jersey litigious and hoplophobic Attorney General will go after him next. He told us . . .
Since there is no precedent for my actions, I don’t know if I am in violation of NJ law or not. Since I’m not in NJ, their AG can get the big middle finger and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine. If they come after me, an individual, for sharing information that was FOIA’ed from the Army IN NEW JERSEY (the 2d files for the M16 were signed over from the AARDEC in NJ), that’s cool. I dare them.
Perhaps the best way to sum it up is: I am not in NJ, and am not subject to the purview of a blatantly unconstitutional law in NJ. If I was in NJ and did this, I would be breaking the law.
There you go. Download the files as you like. Do it because you want to build an AR. Do it because you want to support free speech. Or just do it because you know it will tick off petty statists like Gurbir Grewal who continue to think they can keep their finger in the hole in the electronic dike.
1A & 2A! Let freedom ring!
This ! Eff petty tyrants everywhere.
Downloaded it for safe keeping, passed the links around discord.
Looks like all the files are gone.
can anyone point to a current location, or post a torrent link?
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. Thanks for the link. I have no idea what to do with it at this point, but I can figure that out later.
Your youngs kids will probably be able purchase a metal printing 3D printer for cheaper than their phone by the time they go to college.
Yeah sure, located in the forward crew lounge just down the passageway from Cpt Kirks quarters.
I’ve been hearing this “anytime story for 30 years. (See also new batteries will revolutionize electric/coal powered cars).
Energy pack technology has been advancing. NIMH was commercialized in late 80’s. Lithium-ion in early 90’s, and LiPo by mid 90’s. Portable electronics, tools, and cars are all more capable than if they were still relying on NiCad or lead-acid batteries. A Tesla wouldn’t get the range and performance if it was hauling around banks of deep cycle batteries. A couple decades ago, electric cars were glorified golf carts suitable for 25 miles at 25 MPH, instead of hybrids and pure electrics doing highway speeds for hundreds of miles. Battery chemistry research continues, as does the management and charging, which uses computerized algorithms to monitor and charge safely. Now that an electric car functionality is a viable option for most people, the new problem is making them affordable and being able to supply enough electricity if everyone had one.
The laser sintered metal 3d printers are on the rise, but they are still expensive and require inert gas. As it stands though, they are very precise. The company to build the first viable unit also printed fully functioning 1911s that only required heat treating and coatings. The only parts they didn’t print were the springs.
Amen preach on it
Don’t have a 3D printer, maybe never will, downloaded the file anyway because f**k you, statists.
I’ll probably put it up on my site too, because hell with NJ.
Don’t have a 3D printer, maybe never will, downloaded the file anyway because f**k you, statists.
Funny, I kept reading AG’s name as Goebbels.
My first thought when I read his name. Sounds like a Nazi war criminal.
If not by name but rather deed.
After the first American Revolution was started because of tea, who could have predicted the second would be started because of H(tea)ML.
I’ll go do push-ups now…
You’re banned from the internet for one week.
Its more like S(Tea)L files.
I love this type if civil disobedience
The theory of criminal liability is that the files are “available” for download in New Jersey, and therefore are being published and distributed there in violation of the statute. there is precedent for imposing personal jurisdiction over parties whose only contact with a state (for jurisdictional purposes) is electronic, e.g. wire fraud and the like. Similar rules have been used in Europe to clamp down on speech deemed unacceptable, with attempts to hold the internet service providers liable. But this of course results in the actions of a single state imposing a world-wide ban, since the poster of the materials cannot control where it is distributed. Only countries can do that through their control over internet service availability in their country. (E.G. China, Iran, etc.) The cases have been pending long enough for a jurisdictional challenge to have been filed, so maybe that issue is conceded, with the larger claim being that the law is an attack on first amendment freedoms. Which it is. I seem to recall a case where the feds went after an individual for publishing a book on how to build a nuclear bomb. He eventually got the charges dismissed when he demonstrated that he had obtained all the necessary information from publicly available sources. If it is not illegal to post plans for The Bomb, how can it be illegal to post publicly available information about building a rifle?
A larger issue is that the “ban ” states are trying to ban the production of ALL homemade firearms. California laws requiring that a builder obtain a state-issued serial number prior to beginning an 80% build is the first step in such plans. A similar push, recently reported, was of the California Dept of Justice seizing AR style pistols based on their manufacture without complying with the firearms safety testing requirements of the state for pistols (including the microstamping law), despite the fact that home-built pistols have never before been subjected to such laws. Under federal rules, building for your own use is not “manufacturing.”
I’m definitely not a lawyer, but as I understand it, laws that apply to a person in one state interacting with a person in another state (such as wire fraud, check fraud, or mail fraud) all come from the federal government.
I would think that would apply here…if this wasn’t such a blatant and obvious violation of the first amendment.
(Forgot to check the box to enable the editing cookie.)
Also, there is precedent that publishing the source code to something that might be illegal to use (DVD decryption software in this case) is protected by the first amendment.
Those particular statutes yes, but there is often dual jurisdiction. But you are right about the First, which is the basis that DD has been fighting these cases from the git go when it was the feds.
— California laws requiring that a builder obtain a state-issued serial number prior to beginning an 80% build is the first step in such plans. —
Which means, if it passes, someone will be offering 79% blanks.
E-mail the plans to the New Jersey Attorney General. Upon receipt he’ll have to arrest himself.
Why stop there? Email the plans to the entire NJ legislature.
Love it!
Drop usb sticks over NJ just like we dropped liberators over france.
This is actually a really good form of non violent resistance and genesis level trolling
Attach to balloons and launch from Pennsylvania?
Hahahaha!!!! That’s frickin’ brilliant!! Post of the year right there!
Can’t download – get some whack message when I smack your link.
Wished I knew some poor bastard in New Jerkistan,so I could spread the good news of the 1 & 2 nd. amendments.
214MB tucked away all nice and comfy with the DIY Sten, grease guns, and others plans.
We always claim the 2a is the teeth of the 1a, now it’s the other way around.
It’s already established law that plans for guns, bombs, and booby traps are legal.
The anarchist cookbook was the subject of legal challenge and the courts Determined that these plans and blueprints are free speech.
He killed me with a sword, how weird is that.
got Mine
Anyone have a working link?
https://mega.nz/#!fuQgRCrZ!SeBjIoFG8bfA39owsFHaTBdFE723YfH5fGPBDxZI9TU
They are gone already.
Please post a good link, and a torrent link.
link?
Check your favorite torrent site. There are some interesting files at The Pirate Bay provided by user DeterrenceDispensed https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=user:DeterrenceDispensed
Does anybody have them. The link is dead.
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