American Military News by Ryan Morgan April 28, 2021
Build instructions for home-made and 3D printed firearms, sometimes referred to as “ghost guns,” can be shared online, a U.S. federal court ruled on Tuesday.
In a 2-1 decision, the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a 2018 order by then-President Donald Trump’s administration, to remove home-made firearm designs from a State Department Munitions List, which required approval from the department to export any such weapons and blocked those plans from being shared online. The court’s decision, in effect, allows companies and designers to shared their 3D printed firearm designs online.
In 2018, the Trump State Department settled a lawsuit from a 3D printed gun company, Defense Distributed, requesting that its plans be taken off the State Department Munitions List. Those plans were placed on the munitions list in 2015, under then-President Barack Obama.
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