U.S. Orders 3D Guns Removed Online

The order to remove the blueprints for 3D guns comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times.

The US State Department wrote to the gun’s designer, Defense Distributed, suggesting publishing them online may breach arms-control regulations.

Although the files have been removed from the company’s Defcad site,  wil lthis  prevent people from accessing the blueprints? They were being hosted by the Mega online service and may still reside on its servers.  Links to copies of the blueprints have been uploaded to file-sharing site the Pirate Bay, making them widely available. The Pirate Bay has also publicised its links to the files via social news site Reddit suggesting many more people will get hold of the blueprints