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A Seattle Federal Judge has found the Trump administration’s decision last year to allow a Texas company to post blueprints online for 3D-printed guns, as illegal. Judge Robert Lasnik<\/a> of Seattle’s U.S. District Court ruled that the Trump administration violated federal law to notify Congress in advance, and failing to provide a “reasoned explanation” of the change in previous policy.<\/p>\n Sorry Your Honor, technology is a genie that won’t go back into the bottle.<\/p>\n In July 2018 the State Department reversed an earlier decision, made under the Obama administration, to ban posting of the gun blueprints. The Obama State Department had deemed the blueprints to be in violation of federal export laws, as they were downloaded by people outside the U.S. Soon after the Trump State Department changed tack on that, 19 states and Washington D.C. sued the Trump administration to block the reversal and keep the free gun blueprints off the internet.<\/p>\n It was Judge Lasnik who issued a restraining order in the summer of 2018 to ban the continued free online distribution of the instructions to print the difficult to detect, untraceable guns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But Cody Wilson, a gun rights campaigner and owner of Defense Distributed, the Texas company that publishes the blueprints, has used a loophole since that order to keep distributing his computer-aided design (CAD) gun plans \u2014 albeit in a more limited manner.<\/p>\n Lasnik’s restraining order barred the free publication of the blueprints, temporarily blocking the State Department’s move to allow the online postings, but Wilson was still allowed to sell the files to U.S. residents individually, and he told CBS News he had continued to do so as “a matter of principle.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Free thought, free expression and free enterprise, wrapped in the text of the Second Amendment. This will be entertaining to watch as it crawls through the courts. Read the rest of the article here: CBS News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"