The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)

Judge blocks online plans for printing 3D guns

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A U.S. judge in Seattle blocked the Trump administra­tion Monday from allowing a Texas company to post online plans for making untraceabl­e 3D guns, agreeing with 19 states and the District of Columbia that such access to the plastic guns would pose a security risk.

The states sued to stop an agreement that the government had reached with Austin, Texas-based Defense Distribute­d, saying guidelines on how to print undetectab­le plastic guns could be acquired by felons or terrorists.

U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik extended a temporary restrainin­g order, and his new decision will last until the case is resolved. He said Cody Wilson, owner of Defense Distribute­d, wanted to post the plans online so that citizens can arm themselves without having to deal with licenses, serial numbers and registrati­ons.

Wilson has said that “government­s should live in fear of their citizenry.”

“It is the untraceabl­e and undetectab­le nature of these small firearms that poses a unique danger,” Lasnik said. “Promising to detect the undetectab­le while at the same time removing a significan­t regulatory hurdle to the proliferat­ion of these weapons both domestical­ly and internatio­nally - rings hollow and in no way ameliorate­s, much less avoids, the harms that are likely to befall the states if an injunction is not issued.”

 ?? J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press ?? Attorney Lanny Davis speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his K Street office in Washington on May 3. Michael Cohen’s lawyer is walking back his assertions that his client could tell a special prosecutor that President Donald Trump had prior knowledge of a meeting with a Russian lawyer to get damaging informatio­n on Hillary Clinton.
J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press Attorney Lanny Davis speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his K Street office in Washington on May 3. Michael Cohen’s lawyer is walking back his assertions that his client could tell a special prosecutor that President Donald Trump had prior knowledge of a meeting with a Russian lawyer to get damaging informatio­n on Hillary Clinton.

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