President Donald Trump: Stop 3-D plastic guns

Dear Mr. President:

We implore you to immediately stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions, U.S. Department of Justice, Secretary Pompeo, and the U.S. State Department from authorizing Defense Distributed to release downloadable files for 3-D guns. These files would allow anyone around the globe to make do-it-yourself, untraceable 3-D guns by circumventing any existing state and federal gun regulations, resulting in serious public safety and national security concerns.

Unless you stop the U.S. State Department from authorizing this special exemption for Defense Distributed, you are enabling terrorists, criminals, domestic abusers, and other prohibited firearm purchasers to use the downloadable gun technology. They would be able to print plastic guns that are undetectable by metal detectors at the White House and other government buildings, airports, office buildings and schools.

Earlier this year, the government filed a motion to dismiss Defense Distributed’s lawsuit, citing serious national security concerns from global access to the computer-aided design (CAD) files. Then last month, the Department of Justice settled the lawsuit, agreed to allow the public release of Defense Distributed 3-D firearm printing tutorials and made an egregious decision to use our tax dollars to pay nearly $40,000 for the plaintiff’s legal fees.

Please keep all Americans safe by helping to stop the U.S. State Department from establishing a permanent regulatory change that would provide unlimited online access to 3D gun printing design.

Thank you for your immediate attention to this urgent matter involving our national security.

Sincerely,

A New Routine for America, Alliance for Gun Responsibility, Arizonans for Gun Safety, Ceasefire Pennsylvania, Connecticut Against Gun ViolenceDelaware Coalition Against Gun Violence, Faith Community of St. Sabina, Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, Franciscan Action Network, Franciscan Sisters of the Poor, G-PAC Illinois, Georgia Alliance for Social Justice, Georgia Student Alliance for Social Justice, Georgians for Gun Safety, Gun Violence Prevention Action Committee Illinois, Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah, GunControlToday, Healing 4 Our families & Our Nation, Herndon-Reston Coalition To End Gun Violence, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, Jr Newtown Action Alliance, League of Women Voters of Florida, Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence ,Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, Michigan Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, MomsRising, National Council of Jewish Women ,New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence, Newtown Action Alliance, NoRA, North Carolinians Against Gun Violence, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, One Pulse for America, Physicians for the Prevention of Gun Violence, Pride Fund to End Gun Violence, Protest Easy Guns, Psychiatrists for Gun Violence Prevention, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, San Diego for Gun Violence Prevention, Sandy Hook Promise, Silent March, Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia Justice, Peace and Integrity for Creation Committee, States United to Prevent Gun Violence, Stop Handgun Violence, Survivors Lead, The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, The Connecticut Effect, The ENOUGH Campaign, Unitarian Universalist FaithAction New Jersey, Vision Quilt, WAVE Educational Fund, We the People for Sensible Gun Laws, Women’s Voices Raised for Social Justice