19 US states jointly sue government, judge blocks 3D printing gun agreement
Beijing, August 28, according to US media reports, Seattle federal judge Robert Lasnick 27 blocked the Trump administration to allow a Texas company to release untraceable 3D gun printing drawings of the agreement.
Previously, 19 states, including the District of Columbia, jointly sued the government, arguing that the distribution and use of this 3D plastic gun will bring irreparable security risks, because felons or terrorists may obtain the production drawings of this untraceable plastic gun. According to the report, the Trump administration had reached an agreement with the Austin, Texas-based gun advocacy group DefenseDistributed Inc., under the original rules, the public can legally download 3D gun printouts starting August 1, but hours before the project was to start, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction. Temporarily blocking what it called an "irreparable crisis."
Judge Lasnik extended the temporary injunction on the 27th, he said the new decision will remain in place until the case is resolved. "DefenseDistributed owner CodyWilson wants to post the program online so that citizens can assemble their own firearms without the need for licenses and serial numbers and cumbersome registration procedures," he said. "The untraceable and undetectable nature of these small firearms is what makes them uniquely dangerous," Lasnick said. The flow of the programme into China and abroad should be stopped before irreversible harm is done, he added.
The U.S. State Department reached a settlement with DefenseDistributed after it removed the 3D gun project from their data list, preventing the 3D gun drawings from going overseas.
However, Lasnick criticized the government for changing its position on the threat posed by the 3D gun project. The government considers the distribution of the drawings "a threat to world peace as well as to the security and foreign policy of the United States."
A US Justice Department lawyer even said it was already illegal to possess a 3D plastic gun.
Washington State Attorney General BobFerguson praised the ruling. "Once again, I am pleased that we put a stop to this dangerous policy," Ferguson said. But I have to ask a simple question: Why is the Trump administration fighting so hard to make these untraceable, undetectable, 3D-printed guns available to China's abusers, felons, and terrorists?"