3D firearms printing group Defense Distributed has launched its own site for hosting gun files like those recently pulled from MakerBot's Thingiverse. When MakerBot cracked down on weapons earlier this week, Defense Distributed head Cody Wilson said that a new site for the files was coming soon, and it's now live at Defcad.org. So far, the catalog is extremely small: only three actual parts are on it, and there's no upload system; instead, organizers have tried to find and post projects pulled from MakerBot and are asking for more files to be sent via email. It's partly a symbolic response to MakerBot, which Defense Distributed accuses of "censorship," and partly the seeds of what's intended to be a larger site.
Wilson and Defense...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/21/3791616/defense-distributed-launches-3d-printed-gun-part-site
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