Liberals—who at one point in the very distant past stood on the shoulders of the First Amendment—hate free speech. They also despise the Second Amendment. And what they detest even more is that free speech has killed their favorite voter base-ginning talking point: gun control. And now they’re getting a well-deserved smack upside their knuckleheads from Cody Wilson, owner of Defense Distributed, who markets blueprints, and the mills for which to create, 3-D printed firearms:

Cody Wilson is fighting to protect publishing his gun-design blueprints online (Photo Credit: The Truth About Guns)

Defense Distributed’s legal right to post its information was won by the company via settlement this month after a long legal battle with the federal government. Before that settlement, the feds essentially wanted to treat the act of hosting or distributing such files as illegal arms exporting.

Wilson cites attacks on his First Amendment protections:

Defense Distributed informed [New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S.] Grewal and [Michael Feuer, city attorney of Los Angeles] on Friday that “all actions contemplated by Defense Distributed are fully protected by the First Amendment, and [Grewal’s] attempts to prevent such actions constitute an unconstitutional prior restraint and otherwise violate the United States Constitution and the New Jersey Constitution.”

The suit asserts that the [ideologically-fueled] threats from New Jersey and Los Angeles “violate the First Amendment speech rights of Defense Distributed and its audience, including [the Second Amendment Foundation’s] members; run afoul of the Dormant Commerce Clause; infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of those who would make use of the knowledge disseminated by Defense Distributed; constitute a tortious interference with Defense Distributed’s business; and are in any event, federally pre-empted by Congress’s export control laws as well as Defense Distributed’s export license, by which the State Department has explicitly authorized the speech that the Defendants are seeking to silence. Plaintiffs are entitled to declaratory and injunctive relief, damages, and attorney fees.”

So why is Wilson launching a lawsuit? Here’s why:

I am now being sued by at least 21 state attorneys general. If you want your Second Amendment online, THIS is the fight. Join me: https://t.co/vEBBktsKS6

— Cody R. Wilson (@Radomysisky) July 30, 2018

There are only 22 Democrats. I'm just wondering who the exception is.

— John Doe (@steadysentinel) July 30, 2018

#MeToo.

The attorneys general of CA and other states sent a letter today urging the Trump admin to withdraw from the settlement, arguing the posting of 3-D printable gun guides “will make Americans less safe from both domestic and international threats.” @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/L7oCKNcWO2

— Claudia Peschiutta (@ReporterClaudia) July 30, 2018

Gurbir S. Grewal, the attorney general of New Jersey, sent a threatening letter to Defense Distributed last week that claimed the company’s “plans to allow anyone with a 3D printer to download a code and create a fully operational gun directly threatens the public safety of New Jersey’s residents….Posting this material online is no different than driving to New Jersey and handing out hard-copy files on any street corner.”

Um, yeah. Welcome to the Age of Information, Mr. Grewal. And what, pray tell, will handing out literature, either digitally, or by hand, do? Cause an exponential increase in myopia, or an epidemic of paper cuts?

.@CityAttorneyLA is also getting in on the fight to keep 3-D printable gun guides off the Internet, claiming their posting “would pose a direct and immediate threat to public safety” in LA. @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/5PSmpNcz5a

— Claudia Peschiutta (@ReporterClaudia) July 30, 2018

Nope, sorry, Captain Hyperbole, what it poses is a direct and immediate threat to tyranny. Maybe what you’re really afraid of is your constituents learning about their inherent right to bear arms. And why they enjoy that right. AmIRight?

Alexander Hamilton, of New York:

“[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights and those of their fellow citizens.” — The Federalist, No. 29

And then came the demands, and promises of Threats of Action:

Grewal ordered the company “to cease and desist from publishing printable-gun computer files for use by New Jersey residents….Should you fail to comply with this letter, my Office will initiate legal action barring you from publishing these files before August 1, 2018.”

The AGs of WA and other states are suing the Trump administration over the settlement and seeking a court order to ban the posting of #ghostgun guides. @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/ieV20Y0vrj

— Claudia Peschiutta (@ReporterClaudia) July 30, 2018

Bring it on, sugar snap. Free speech trumps fear-mongering. I suspect Mr. Wilson, nor the Trump Administration, will cave to your threats, since both have already proved they’ll not kowtow to Blue State Bullies. Not to mention, said asshattery comes from “leaders” who’ve unilaterally, without the consent of their own citizens, transformed their states, cities, and counties into “sanctuaries” for animals like this:

ICE Just Arrested Dozens of Illegal Aliens in a Sanctuary City, the Majority Have Serious Criminal Records https://t.co/T75lfI3RYM

— Sabrebabe (@RocNConserChick) July 27, 2018

And this:

And, of course, this:

Kate Steinle's tragic death shows why the 'sanctuary cities' movement threatens the safety of all Americans.
It’s also why Texas banned sanctuary city policies. #txlege #tcot #PJNET https://t.co/hgA3vefYp4

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) December 3, 2017

Begging the obvious question: where’s the sanctuary for American citizens who daily suffer at the hands of those who have no business residing in our country? So spare me your faux outrage; if your state is unsafe, you’ve only yourselves, and your failed liberal policies and transparent pandering for votes from those with no allegiance to America, to blame.

No, blueprints are not the problem, they’re a potential answer, because what your citizens really need is the means to defend themselves against those who would do them harm. You know, those who roam freely throughout your states, victimizing your citizenry, with your acquiescence.

Not to be out-liberaled, Pennsylvania has jumped on the WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE (AGAIN)!!! bandwagon, seeking a restraining order to cease the file-sharing, showing their contempt for the First Amendment rights of American citizens, too.

https://twitter.com/wvjoe911/status/1024051076708921346

Sorry, Pennsylvanians, no free speech for you! Oh, wait…perhaps your neighbor has a copy. Because, guess what? Speech is like water: it seeps through just about anything.

Blue state bureaucrats can keep crying in their soy-soaked corn flakes; they may temporarily silence Wilson with an assist from a friendly liberal judge, but there’s nothing they can do to permanently muzzle the speech of any of us. Their efforts are futile. Particularly when it involves our inalienable right to self-defense. There’s no stopping him. Or you. Or I. Or anyone else who wants to share WORDS, specifically speech with regard to a constitutionally-protected right. We’re all Cody Wilson. For as I asserted last week: gun control is dead. And the First Amendment killed it.

Look at most countries, in the history of the world, that disarmed the people. I lived through communists trying to take over in the mountains of the Philippines after they confiscated the weapons. It’s horrific when the people can’t protect themselves.

— Reseth (@ResethO) July 30, 2018

The government shouldn’t control our means to self defense. That’s a natural right that supersedes any government. Bad people will always have weapons. They did in the Philippines and they do all over the world.

— Reseth (@ResethO) July 30, 2018

Yes, ma’am. And we can thank our Founders—who were far greater men than any of those trying to smother us into submission—for foreseeing what was inevitably coming down the pike from those who would see us disarmed, and vulnerable, to whatever wickedness they would otherwise foist upon us.

And to that I say: Viva la Cody Wilson.