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A federal judge is temporarily blocking a gun rights organization from publishing blueprints for 3D-printed guns.

In an interview only on CBS, @TonyDokoupil met the founder of Defense Distributed to find out why he's fighting to distribute potentially dangerous information.

"I believe that I am championing the second amendment in the 21st century." -- @Radomysisky

You think that's good for America? -- @TonyDokoupil

"Yeah I think unquestionably its good for the future."

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"What I'm doing is legally protected... I will go to the appellate level, I will go to the Supreme Court. I will waste all my time." -- @Radomysisky

Wilson already published 10 blueprints as of last Friday. The AR-15 schematics alone have been downloaded thousands of times.

"There is nothing good that can come with Defense Distributed uploading these files." -- Po Murray, chairwoman of @NewtownAction, a gun control group created after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary.

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.@Radomysisky argues it's impossible to police 3D-gun tech and believes he has a free speech right to publish the designs.

"I'm talking about files. I'm not talking about the guns. I'm not a licensed gun manufacturer...I have data, I can share the data" cbsn.ws/2NYuP5E

"The guns are downloadable. The files are in the public domain you cannot take them back you can adjust your politics to this reality, you will not ask me to adjust mine." -- @Radomysisky

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“He has a tombstone outside his office, just to be very clear about what his mission is, and on that tombstone it says ‘American Gun Control’” -- @TonyDokoupil

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