Judge rejects lawsuit by 3D gun company against states
AUSTIN, Texas _ A federal judge in Austin has sided against local 3D-printed gun company Defense Distributed in a lawsuit that would have allowed the company to send instructions for building untraceable firearms to people in several states.
Stating that his courtroom was not the appropriate place to hash out the Second Amendment dispute, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman tossed out the lawsuit and invited the company's lawyers to pursue action elsewhere.
The ruling was a victory for state officials in New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania and California. The judge also ruled in favor of New Jersey in the state's attempt to block Defense Distributed from obtaining a temporary injunction to reject a recently passed state law and resume doing business there.
Last month, lawyers for Defense Distributed argued in Pitman's court that the case should be tried in Austin because that's where the company received a cease-and-desist letter from the New Jersey attorney general's office. Lawyers representing New Jersey argued that the letter was not sufficient to bring the case to Texas.
_Austin American-Statesman
