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Eight states announced Monday that they plan to ask a federal judge in Seattle to immediately issue a temporary restraining order against Defense Distributed, a Texas-based group that has already ...

The group Defense Distributed is now selling the 3D gun files in an attempt to work around the ban issued by a federal judge. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The blueprint files to print your own 3D ...

Defense Distributed has begun selling blueprints for guns that can be 3D printed at home in what may be considered circumvention of a court injunction aimed at preventing the spread of the designs.

Remember Defense Distributed? That’s the group that, in 2013, posted files on the Internet that would allow anyone to 3-D–print a plastic single-shot pistol (with a metal nail for a firing pin). The ...