Michigan AG Nessel Announces Lawsuit Over New Trump Administration Effort to Allow Release of 3D-Printed Guns
Kelly Rossman-McKinney
Michigan.Gov
January 24th. 2020
LANSING — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in challenging the Trump administration’s latest effort to allow 3D-printed gun files to be released on the internet. The gun files would allow plug-and-play access to 3D-printed unregistered, untraceable firearms that can also be very difficult to detect, even with a metal detector. Untraceable firearms are sometimes called “ghost guns.”
The coalition filed the lawsuit Thursday afternoon in Seattle in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
“Allowing instructions for building unregistered and untraceable weapons on the internet is reckless,” Nessel said. “If access to these so-called ‘ghost guns’ becomes available to essentially anyone with a computer, the U.S. risks opening itself up to the possibility of wide scale harm. We must act sensibly and responsibly, and that means opposing this administration’s illogical attempt to subject Michigan residents and other Americans to the wills of terrorists and extremists.”