PressTV-US judge blocks effort to ban downloadable 3-D guns

A US judge on Friday rejected a last-ditch effort by gun control groups to block the Trump administration from allowing the public to download blueprints for 3-D printable guns, declining to intervene just days before the designs are expected to go online.

US District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin, Texas, denied the request for an order by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence at a hearing, saying he would state the reasons for his decision in a written order to follow.

At the hearing, the judge said he was sympathetic to the gun control groups’ concerns but questioned their legal standing to intervene in the case.

The groups sought to intervene following a June settlement between Defense Distributed and the US government allowing the company to legally publish gun blueprints online, something its website says it plans to do by Aug. 1.

The government ordered the…

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