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Cody Wilson, the man who tried to sell blueprints for plastic guns, is now accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political…

The United States has long had a pathological relationship with guns. That is the logical outcome of the extraordinary decision of the State Department to cave in to the demands of a young libertarian who believes that everyone in the world should be able to make and use guns without any government control. In this case, it is the technology of 3D printing, which allows almost anything to be modelled in plastic using relatively cheap and widespread machinery operating under computer control. The case had been running since 2013, when Mr Wilson put on the internet his first instructions for making a gun which would be invisible to metal detectors and – because of the lack of serial numbers – untraceable by governments. In one sense this case is all shadow boxing. Mr Wilson argues that his software is protected speech under the first amendment of the US constitution. In a country with 10,000 gun homicides a year, it’s easy enough to get hold of an entirely legal weapon, even if US law enforcement worries about untraceable firearms. So the technology should not be suppressed, even if that were possible, which it is not. But it must nonetheless be controlled, like any other. It is the libertarian idea that individual rights must take precedence over any form of government control which makes American handguns uniquely dangerous.