State officials ask Trump administration to pull 3D-printed gun files offline

Two dozen state attorneys general are asking the Trump administration to crack down on Defense Distributed’s Defcad site for selling 3D-printed gun files. In a letter sent today, they urged the Justice Department and State Department to enforce rules against exporting weapons and making undetectable firearms. “If the federal government fails to act, these files will be distributed widely with potentially grave consequences for our national and domestic security,” warns the letter.

Attorneys general argue that Defcad is violating export control regulations and the Undetectable Firearms Act, which bans manufacturing, owning, and selling guns that don’t trigger metal detectors. Anyone who downloads files could “automatically manufacture...

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