Liberty
Supremes reject AG’s attempt to evade 1st Amendment in 3D printed gun case
The weapons case centers on the First Amendment, not the Second Amendment, because it’s about the distribution of information.
The Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by the attorney general of New Jersey to avoid First Amendment liability over his plan to ban the distribution of instructions on printing 3D firearms.
In a unanimous decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that Gurbir Grewal was subject to the jurisdiction of Texas courts in a lawsuit brought by Texas-based Defense Distributed.
The weapons case centers on the First Amendment, not the Second Amendment, because it’s about the distribution of information.
Grewal had asked the high court to take the 5th Circuit conclusion and change it.
“It’s not every day you beat a state attorney general at the Supreme Court,” observed SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “especially when he had been supported by other anti-gun state attorneys general from New York, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington, and the District of Columbia. This is a huge victory.”