A Texas group created to share designs online allowing anyone to produce a 3D-printed firearm at home is suing New Jersey's attorney general for attempting to block access to its website by residents of the Garden State.
Defense Distributed is slated to release its design schematics for homemade guns on its website August 1 after a lengthy legal battle with the federal government led to a settlement earlier this month.
But New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal last week
sent the group a letter claiming that making the files available to New Jersey residents would be a violation of state law.
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Grewal wrote in a cease-and-desist letter that the release of the digital files would
"flood the illegal firearms market and pose a direct threat to the public safety of my state," calling it a violation of the state's public nuisance laws.
Wilson said Sunday he would temporarily block users with New Jersey IP addresses from accessing the files when they are posted. Later, in an email to NJ Advance Media,
Wilson said he "elected to correct your attorney general in court" and filed papers in the U.S. District Court in West Texas.
The complaint accuses Grewal and Feuer of engaging in an "ideologically-fueled program of intimidation and harassment." It calls their legal threats "an
unconstitutional prior restraint," a term that applies to efforts by the government to suppress publication of information it deems harmful.
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