New California ghost gun lawsuit takes aim at company that sells 3-D printer filament
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Set us as preferred San Diego County jumped into California’s sprawling ghost gun fight this week, suing a 3-D printing filament manufacturer it says hocks material for homespun firearms in violation of state law.Working with the Giffords Law Center, the county counsel sued manufacturer Polymaker, alleging the company made a “strategic business choice” to market and sell 3-D printer filament to Californians for the express purpose of building illegal weapons.
The polymer filament is sold in spools that feed into 3-D printers, allowing the devices to form designs created by their owners.“Unlike ghost guns assembled from commercially sold unfinished parts, 3D printed ghost guns can be produced from plastic filament using consumer-grade equipment,” the suit said.“Upon acquiring a 3D printer, a fully functional, untraceable firearm can be printed and assembled by anyone in less than nine hours.”This spring, the San Diego Police Department’s Ghost Gun Team recovered spools of the material from the home workshop of a 16-year-old would-be school shooter, along with printed guns and firearm parts they believe he intended to sell — evidence, the suit said, of the manufacturer’s harm to the state.Polymaker did not respond to requests for comment.
California Movie prop makers are among the groups pushing back against a proposed California bill that would require 3-D printers to block the making of gun parts, citing concerns about unintentional consequences from overly broad restrictions.The spool suit is the latest in a coordinated effort by California’s municipalities and the state attorney general’s office to throttle the bootleg gun industry by stanching the flow of its precursor components.In February, the San Francisco city attorney’s office partnered with the California attorney general to sue the online...