The problem with prohibitions on electronic contraband like 3D-printed gun designs
Maybe the federal government could leverage its increasingly intrusive take on intellectual property law to seize the gun design files’ copyrights under eminent domain, and then go after anybody who distributes them for infringement, suggests Charles Duan of R Street Institute. Duan goes on to warn that, while such a move might be permissible under current law and a logical extension of recent policy, it’s a terrible idea.
