“Just in the past 48 hours, I would be shocked if hundreds of thousands of people don’t possess these files,” said Brandon Combs, president of the Firearms Policy Coalition, which posted the data to CodeIsFreeSpeech.

Via the Washington Times: 

A judge’s attempt to halt the spread of blueprints for 3D-printed guns backfired Wednesday as the plans spread across the internet, posted and shared by people who said they were determined to strike a blow for free speech, to protect gun rights, or just to thumb their nose at the government.

Activists took to Twitter and Facebook to share links where the plans could be found on file-sharing services or sites on the dark web.

One website, CodeIsFreeSpeech.com, posted eight sets of files and reported more than 100,000 hits and nearly 1.5 terabytes of data downloaded by 6 a.m. Wednesday.

“Just in the past 48 hours, I would be shocked if hundreds of thousands of people don’t possess these files,” said Brandon Combs, president of the Firearms Policy Coalition, which posted the data to CodeIsFreeSpeech.

Read more here.