Connecticut has joined seven other states and the District of Columbia in filing a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration and an Austin, Texas-based company that allows individuals to download instructions for 3-D printed guns from its website.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, names the U.S. Department of State and the company, Defense Distributed, as defendants. It challenges a settlement that the federal government under President Donald Trump recently entered with the company, allowing Defense Distributed to publish the blueprints.

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