Golden Gate University Law Review
Abstract
Three-dimensional printing brought the factory inside the home, leaving behind traditional government oversight and industry safeguards common to the free market. Anyone in the world with a 3D printer can produce a functional firearm, and most adult citizens in the United States. may do so legally. While 3D printing has demonstrated its utility, novel issues such as commercial liability and broad access to computer code for 3D-printable guns remain in the technology’s legal periphery.
This Comment analyzes Washington v. Defense Distributed, in which the United States Department of State attempted to prevent an online organization, Defense Distributed, from posting printable 3D firearm files online.
Recommended Citation
Liam Casey,
COMMENT: Secondary Effects: The First Amendment and Defective 3D Firearm Files, 52 Golden Gate U. L. Rev.
(2022).
https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/ggulrev/vol52/iss2/8