The 3D-printed gun that Cody Wilson calls the “Liberator.” Click to enlarge. (Credit: Michael Thad Carter for Forbes) Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world’s first entirely 3D-printable handgun. Now he has. Early next week, Wilson, a 25-year University of Texas law student and founder of the non-profit group [...] Original post on forbes.com Comments on reddit.com
Ministry of National Defense also says South’s forces are in full readiness posture, will completely punish North if there is any provocation Original post on voanews.com Comments on reddit.com
Jonathan Hoffman, 17, was shot six times by his grandmother, but another four shots were fired in her West Bloomfield condo that day, a police officer testified this afternoon. Bullets and casings from Sandra Layne’s 9mm Glock were found in Hoffman’s loft bedroom, in the living room, and in the kitchen of the upscale condo on Brookview Lane, West Bloomfield Det. Brad Boulet told jurors this afternoon as Layne’s open murder trial enters its second week in Oakland County Circuit Court. Original post on freep.com Comments on reddit.com
Cody Wilson, who heads 3D printed firearms group Defense Distributed, has apparently received a federal firearms license officially allowing him to manufacture or sell the group’s guns. Defense… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
WASHINGTON — Congress stripped a provision Tuesday from a defense bill that aimed to shield Americans from the possibility of being imprisoned indefinitely without trial by the military. The provision was replaced with a passage that appears to give citizens little protection from indefinite detention. Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
fiscal-cliff deal. the fiscal cliff. Original post on hillnews.com Comments on reddit.com
With the country facing tough choices on spending and taxes, the defense budget, the largest single area of discretionary spending, plays a special role. In the first of three debates, President Barack Obama tried to pressure Mitt Romney on his defense plans, but the Massachusetts governor did not allow himself to be drawn in. Obama made at least four references to Romney’s goal to greatly ramp up military spending. Each time, he did it in the context of tax policy. “Gov. Romney’s central economic plan calls for a $5 trillion tax cut,” Obama said. “On top of the extension of… Original post on politifact.com Comments on reddit.com
Wired reports 3D printer manufacturer Stratasys has nullified a lease agreement with Defense Distributed. Read this article by Rich Brown on CNET News. Original post on cnet.com Comments on reddit.com
The Israeli army’s chief of staff states that Original post on veteransnewsnow.com Comments on reddit.com
BY MICHAEL COHEN I’ve been following politics for many years; I’ve written a book on presidential campaigns and I’ve delved quite a bit into the minutiae of the 2012 campai Original post on nydailynews.com Comments on reddit.com
WASHINGTON — As many as 66 countries would be eligible to buy U.S. drones under new Defense Department guidelines but Congress and the State Department, which have a final say, have not yet opened the spigots for exports, a senior Pentagon official said on Wednesday. The 66 cou … Original post on nbcnews.com Comments on reddit.com
The news you’re not supposed to know… Original post on informationliberation.com Comments on reddit.com
(AP) — The Progressive Corp. insurance group is defending itself against an onslaught of negative publicity after it tried to avoid paying $75,000 to the family of a client killed in a car crash and sought to blame the wreck on her. While Fisher didn’t quite anticipate the wave of support he received, he was sure others who learned about the case would be as shocked as he was that his sister’s own insurance company was going to such lengths to cast the blame on her for the accident. According to Cohen, it’s not necessarily unusual for an insurance company to go into court as an adversary of its client. Kaitlynn Fisher’s policy covered the actions of an uninsured or underinsured driver that caused injury or death up to $100,000. Because Nationwide had paid $25,000, the Fishers believed they were due $75,000 from Progressive. Original post on sfgate.com Comments on reddit.com
From Solitary Watch David E. Coombs, attorney for accused Wikileaker Bradley Manning, has made public a motion“to dismiss all charges owing to the unlawful pretrial punishment to which PFC Manning was subjected while at Marine Corps Base, Quantico.” Manning spent close to nine months in solitary confinement in the Brig at Quantico, from July 2010… Original post on prisonbooks.info Comments on reddit.com
Judge refuses to allow 10 defence witnesses while lawyer claims women are being tortured with lack of food and sleep Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Defense Minister Ehud Barak is evicting hundreds of Palestinian farmers and shepherds by declaring the land on which their villages stand ‘firing zones.’ Original post on haaretz.com Comments on reddit.com
Six Defense Department modernization projects are a combined $8 billion — or 110 percent — over budget and suffering years-long schedule delays — in one case, more than 12 years — a new audit report finds. Original post on federaltimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Conspiracy theories about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood publicly dribbled down to the lower echelons of conservative politics this week, with an Arizona Tea Party leader promising to launch a recall effort against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for his defense of Abedin. Last week, a group of Republican lawmakers led by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) drew widespread condemnation from both sides of the aisle for the loosely sourced contention that Huma Abedin, the Muslim-American wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on digg.com
Mozilla, reddit, lawmakers, even a Tea Party activist team to protect the Web. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
(read the book free online – get a copy for your Kindle – read the Reddit AMA) Nidal Malik Hassan may not be alone. At least, not for long. In late June, NPR reported that the FBI has over 100 Original post on tremblethedevil.com Comments on reddit.com
Syria’s defence minister, President Assad’s brother-in-law and the head of the crisis management office are killed in a suicide bombing, state TV says. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on digg.com
A suicide bomber struck a national security building in the Syrian capital, killing two of the highest-ranking members of the Assad regime. Original post on theatlanticwire.com Comments on reddit.com
Obama’s bid for the Illinois State Senate occurred in 1996, which means that he’s trashing the results of Bill Clinton’s first term. Clinton ran for reelection in 1996 and won in a walk, largely due to an economy that was thriving. Whether you credit Clinton or the Republican Congress (I credit both) for the economic boom of the 90s, for Obama to trash 1996 as a time when the middle class felt the dream all slipping away is not only nonsense to those of us who lived through it; it is also factually untrue. Original post on breitbart.com Comments on digg.com
A move by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) — a member of the Democratic leadership — is intended to widen the scope of the debate over the fiscal cliff, so it’s not just centered on the GOP’s pet issues. Original post on talkingpointsmemo.com Comments on digg.com
Orban’s attorney, James Blatt of Los Angeles, said the assault ran counter to a life spent protecting community and country. The only plausible explanation for the defendant’s behavior, Blatt argued, was the potent effects of Zoloft, which sent Orban spiraling into an Original post on latimes.com Comments on reddit.com
A Texas father caught a man sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter and punched him in the head repeatedly, killing him, authorities said. Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
MegaUploads founder and his legal team have asked a Virginia federal court to dismiss the criminal case against them in the United States. Media reports reveal that the defense argues the United States violated the websites due process rights by destroying the entire business without having p… Original post on extratorrent.com Comments on reddit.com
Megaupload is challenging the U.S. Government’s possession of millions of dollars in assets it seized from the company and its operators in January. The newly-filed and eye-opening motion slams the U.S. for holding the defendants liable for alleged offenses that aren’t even a crime, ignoring laws designed to offer them protection, failing to provide any detail whatsoever on alleged infringements, and pushing U.S. law far beyond its borders. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on digg.com
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman, was unconstitutional. Original post on nydailynews.com Comments on digg.com