“The Non-Violence Torrent” is an initiative that, according to themselves, aims to disrupt the 3D-printed gun market. They plan to do this by flooding popular file sharing sites with fake gun CAD files and torrents. Instead of the CAD file, your download will contain a 3D render of the Non-Violence’s symbol – the knotted gun.
Quote: “So when people are on the verge of printing a deadly weapon, they will meet a peaceful message instead.”
The “knotted gun” was originally created as a memorial tribute to the singer and songwriter John Lennon. (Source) The original can be found outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, USA.
The plans were uploaded online by the company Defense Distributed, which is responsible for the development of the world's first 3D-printed gun, 'The Liberator.' The company had been forbidden from sharing the schematics online by former US President Barack Obama's administration, but later reached a settlement agreement with the current US. May 10, 2013 - The Liberator is the first 3D-printable gun. You may freely download these plans and print your own. You will have available to you a gun. There’s been a lot of confusion about 3D printed guns lately — not the least of which from President Donald Trump, who definitely, definitely seems to understand how 3D printing technology works. The topic is no doubt going to become even more complicated beginning August 1.
Above you can see a sample of The Non-Violence Torrent CAD file. I think anyone who finds this file instead of what he was expecting to download, will notice that this is probably not the correct one.
You can check the Vimeo Video here, and learn more about the Non-Violence project (English).
Through torrent sites, 3D-printed guns are on the rise across the world.
No wonder, They’re cheap, accessible, untraceable and near impossible to regulate.
So how can we stop a spreading epidemic that won’t be affected by laws and regulations?
We proudly present The Non-Violence Torrent.
In collaboration with the non-profit organization Non-Violence, we created an initiative which aims to flood the 3D-printed gun market with blueprints of our own. Fake gun torrents containing 3D blueprints of the organizations logo – the knotted gun – have been uploaded to the most popular torrent sites.
So when people are on the verge of printing a deadly weapon, they will meet a peaceful message instead.
Below you can see the 3D technician and student Rammzi talk (Swedish, no subtitles, unfortunately) about the project and at the end print the Non-Violence Torrent file in one of their machines.
“Rammzi on 3D got the honor to be part of a large project that works against violence.” (Video in Swedish – 39 seconds)
Below you can see one of the layers of the 3D printed non-violence project being prepared and printed.
Sources: 1234567 Photos from the various videos
Already in 2013, The Pirate Bay made an interesting statement:
So apparently there are some 3D prints of guns in the physibles section at TPB. Prints that the US government now claim ownership of. Our position is, as always, to not delete any torrents as long as its contents are as stated in the torrents description. Printable guns [are] a very serious matter that will be up for debate for a long time from now. We don’t condone gun violence. We believe that the world needs less guns, not more of them. We believe however that these prints will stay on the internets regardless of blocks and censorship, since that’s how the internets works. If there’s a lunatic out there who wants to print guns to kill people, he or she will do it. With or without TPB. Better to have these prints out in the open internets (TPB) and up for peer review (the comment threads), than semi hidden in the darker parts of the internet.
Personally, I have a lot of interest in 3D printing and Rapid Prototyping, but absolutely NO interest in 3D printed guns or any other firearms other than reading and reporting on the subject.
As the 3D printing technology is considered to be new – after all it has only been around for about 40 years – it is also considered (by some people) to be dangerous. New, unknown things are scary – they must be banned or restricted. Personally, I’d be a lot more afraid of a firearm that was made with traditional production methods than something 3D printed in plastic.
Where I live, and I suppose most laws are written in a similar way, it doesn’t matter how you produce the illegal part.
An illegal part is illegal regardless of which method of production you chose. But a 3D printer is new technology and therefore considered dangerous? CNC machines have been around a lot longer, just as an example, and they can produce parts of way higher quality.
Everyone seems to think that working ammunition comes out of 3D-printers as well. However live ammunition might actually be the biggest problem to acquire for a criminal. When you see random pictures of seized illegal firearms, there is usually a real shortage of ammunition.
What do you think of The Non-Violence Torrent and their idea?
I don’t really use Torrents for anything, so I cannot personally verify if the “market” has been flooded or not. However, I figure that if I really wanted to see that forbidden and censored video (It was any of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre films when I was young) I would probably be successful sooner rather than later. Finding the right Torrent to download is probably just as easy?
In Similar News: 3D printing technology enhancing logistics for Army (Devon L. Suits, Army News Service)
“We don’t want adversaries to get into our files and download our spare parts. Or to make counterfeit parts that … are engineered to fail,” he added. “And we do not want internal flaws in the printing that could degrade our weapon systems.”
Starting next month, you’ll likely have an easier time finding and downloading the schematics one would need to 3D print a functioning firearm.
That’s thanks to a recent Justice Department settlement with a crusader named Cody Wilson, who since 2015 has been battling regulators and government attorneys over his right to publish the 3D-printed gun CAD files online through an open source platform. It’s an unexpected twist in a long legal battle that seemed all but over after the Supreme Court refused to hear the case back in January. Josh Blackman, one of Wilson’s attorneys told Inverse that preventing Wilson from publishing the designs was a free speech issue.
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“The argument is that they have a first amendment right to speech, and the government was telling Cody he couldn’t put these files on the internet,” Blackman explained. “The State Department used to regulate this kind of technical data, but the government shifted that to the Commerce Department which is a much more lenient approach … Cody was the only one subject to this old regime.”
It does seem fair to point out that it isn’t particularly difficult for someone who wants to find these designs to get them, torrent files have been available pretty much since Wilson first posted them.
But gun control activists like Adam Skaggs, chief counsel at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, tells Inverse the decision will make it easier for people who can’t buy guns legally to 3D print their own. They also worry that the more widely available these schematics are, the more likely it is law enforcement officials will encounter more untraceable guns without serial numbers.
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“What we see again and again is that people who aren’t legally allowed to have guns — they go into a gun store and fail a background check — they’re just going to turn around and go online,” Skaggs explained. “And with the click of a mouse, they’ll get the info and materials to build their own, that’s exactly what they’re going to do.”
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Fortunately, the technology for manufacturing 3D printed guns isn’t terribly effective yet, and 3D printers can also be expensive. But the problem may have more to do with what tomorrow’s criminals are able to do with Wilson’s designs as opposed to what will happen when the software files go back online later this summer.
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“When you make it that easy to buy guns where you don’t have to pass a background check, they don’t have registered serial numbers … that presents a huge range of problems,” Skaggs said. “Criminal enterprises that face challenges in legally acquiring guns are just going to start avoiding gun stores entirely and just building their own.”
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