State Department agrees to ease restrictions on 3-D printed firearms

Published July 20, 2018 11:14pm ET



U.S. officials have agreed to an “exceptionally dangerous” settlement of a lawsuit involving the release of 3-D gun printing software, according to a top Democratic lawmaker.

“[I]t will promote global availability of such technical information and the consequent unrestricted manufacture of firearms,” Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs panel, wrote in a Friday letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

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