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 Hour 1-2 -- Cody Wilson (Defense Distributed) comes on the show to provide an update on Ghost Gunner; Dark Wallet

 Hour 3 -- J Neil Schulman (Alongside Night) comes in studio to give an update on his movie

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March 17th, 2015

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2015-03-17 Hour 1 Cody Wilson from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.

Cody Wilson

Defense Distributed, Dark Wallet, Ghost Gunner...

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DefDist.Org

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FedEx And UPS Refuse to Ship a Digital Mill That Can Make Untraceable Guns

From Wired Magazine - February 24th, 2015

Editor's note: This story has been updated with UPS's statement on its refusal to ship digital milling machines used to create firearms.

The new generation of "maker" tools like 3-D printers and milling machines promises to let anyone make virtually anything—from prosthetic limbs to firearms—in the privacy and convenience of his or her own home. But first, those tools have to get to customers' homes. That's going to be difficult for at least one new machine with the potential to make homemade firearms, because FedEx is refusing to deliver it.

Last week FedEx told firearm-access nonprofit Defense Distributed that the company refuses to ship the group's new tool, a computer controlled (CNC) mill known as the Ghost Gunner. Defense Distributed has marketed its one-foot-cubed $1,500 machine, which allows anyone to automatically carve aluminum objects from digital designs, as an affordable, private way to make an AR-15 rifle body without a serial number. Add in off-the-shelf parts that can be ordered online, and the Ghost Gunner would allow anyone to create one of the DIY, untraceable, semi-automatic firearms sometimes known as "ghost guns."

When the machine was revealed last October, Defense Distributed's pre-orders sold out in 36 hours. But now FedEx tells WIRED it's too wary of the legal issues around homemade gunsmithing to ship the machine to customers. "This device is capable of manufacturing firearms, and potentially by private individuals," FedEx spokesperson Scott Fiedler wrote in a statement. "We are uncertain at this time whether this device is a regulated commodity by local, state or federal governments. As such, to ensure we comply with the applicable law and regulations, FedEx declined to ship this device until we know more about how it will be regulated."

But buying, selling, or using the Ghost Gunner isn't illegal, nor is owning an AR-15 without a serial number, says Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA and the author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. "This is not that problematic," he says. "Federal law does not prohibit individuals from making their own firearms at home, and that includes AR-15s."

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2015-03-17 Hour 2 Cody Wilson from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.

Cody Wilson (Cont'd)

 

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2015-03-17 Hour 3 J Neil Schulman from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.

J Neil Schulman

J. Neil Schulman is a writer, filmmaker, songwriter, publisher, activist, and film actor. He's author of a dozen books dating back to 1979, and the writer/producer/director/actor of two independent feature films.

Webpages:

 

http://www.AlongsideNightMovie.com

http://Facebook.com/AlongsideNightMovie

http://Twitter.com/AlongsideNight

J. Neil Schulman's Blog: http://jneilschulman.rationalreview.com

The World According to J. Neil Schulman: http://www.jneilschulman.com

Facebook: http://Facebook.com/jneilpublic

Look for J. Neil Schulman on Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, youTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon.com & IMDb

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From Las Vegas Weekly - March 5th, 2015...

J. Neil Schulman's 'Alongside Night' is at the forefront of libertarian cinema

"I like to say I live between Art Bell and the brothels," jokes Pahrump-based filmmaker J. Neil Schulman, whose second feature, Alongside Night, is pitched somewhere in that same middle ground. Based on Schulman's own 1979 novel, which was praised by the likes of Ron Paul and Glenn Beck (but also A Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess), Alongside Night is an unabashedly political sci-fi thriller, a libertarian manifesto that recalls Atlas Shrugged—both Ayn Rand's 1957 novel and the recent movie trilogy.

"Alongside Night is in many ways far more radical than Atlas Shrugged, and has roots in anarchism as much as anything else," Schulman explains, although he's happy to name Rand as one of his many literary influences (along with everyone from Robert Heinlein to J.D. Salinger).

Set in the near future, Alongside Night imagines a United States crippled by debt and hyper-inflation, where a rogue economist becomes a target for assassination, and his teenage son must escape the clutches of the power-mad director of FEMA. He does so by joining an underground resistance that has set up its own capitalist utopia, complete with unregulated guns, drugs and even nuclear weapons. For Schulman, the story is a response to the current political climate, both at the time he wrote the book in the 1970s and in the present day. And although he might advocate a more extreme political viewpoint, his movie fits nicely into the current trend of conservative-targeted films, including the Atlas Shrugged movies and the surprise box-office hit God's Not Dead, starring Alongside Night's own Kevin Sorbo.

"After your star's movie earns $61 million at the box office, you tend to want to capitalize on that," Schulman says. So far, Alongside Night has shown mostly at conventions and conferences and at private screenings organized through crowdsourcing website Tugg, with libertarian groups forming the core audience. Still, Schulman is eager to reach beyond the conservative base. "I would say we're going for a younger demographic than the Atlas Shrugged movies," he says.

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