Sen. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts, left, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, display a photo of a plastic gun on July 31, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats are calling on President Donald Trump to reverse an administration decision to allow a Texas company to make blueprints for a 3-D-printed gun available online. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)
A federal judge has blocked a website from distributing files that could be used to create guns with a 3-D printer.
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik of the Western District of Washington granted a temporary restraining order to nine state attorneys general who sought in a lawsuit on Monday to permanently stop those files from being shared nationwide.
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