Efforts to ban sharing of 3-D computer codes to make untraceable guns like this one aim at the wrong target. (Cody Wilson)There have been some skirmishes in federal courts recently over efforts by a Texas pro-gun zealot to let people download software instructions that will direct a 3-D printer to create an untraceable gun. The pro-gun control Los Angeles Times siding with the gun nuts? Well, yeah, in this case, because what’s at stake is not the 2nd Amendment covering gun rights, but the 1st Amendment covering free speech. Wilson wasn’t shipping weapons, he was sharing information — specifically, computer code, which courts have held is speech.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 30, 2018 19:41 UTC