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3D Printed Guns

Second Amendment advocates who want to publish plans for assembling a gun using a 3D printer lost their bid in the Fifth Circuit to revive their lawsuit against the State Department. 

NEW ORLEANS – Second Amendment advocates who want to publish plans for assembling a gun using a 3D printer lost their bid in the Fifth Circuit to revive their lawsuit against the State Department. 

The Austin, Texas-based nonprofit Defense Distributed had voluntarily dismissed its suit after reaching a settlement with the government but they sought to revive it in response to a nationwide injunction against enforcement of the settlement, which was issued by a federal court in Washington.

Categories / Appeals, Civil Rights, Technology

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