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The Second Amendment Foundation petitioned the Supreme Court Monday to hear a case targeting New Jersey\u2019s ban on publishing 3D printing code for firearms.<\/p>\n

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New Jersey passed a law in November 2018 criminalizing the distribution of \u201cdigital instructions in the form of computer-aided design files or other code or instructions stored and displayed in electronic format as a digital model that may be used to program a three-dimensional printer to manufacture or produce a firearm, firearm receiver, magazine, or firearm component.\u201d SAF backed a lawsuit by Defense Distributed, which created files that allowed people with 3D printers to make firearms at home for their personal use, when New Jersey\u2019s attorney general at the time, Gurbir Grewal, threatened legal action against the company, and asked the court to determine if software code is protected by the First Amendment. (RELATED: DOJ Waves White Flag, Ends Nine Decades Of Red Tape Over Suppressors In Victory For Gun Owners)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNew Jersey enacted the statute to stop Defense Distributed in particular,\u201d SAF says in its to the Supreme Court. \u201cAt the signing ceremony, the Governor [Phil Murphy] linked the law to the Attorney General\u2019s earlier action against Defense Distributed, and the Attorney General identified Cody Wilson and his supporters, said they were \u2018still trying to release these codes online,\u2019 announced stronger tools \u2018to stop them,\u2019 and warned, \u2018we will come after you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can also publish a book on how to build a gun, right? And that\u2019s not even in question, right?\u201d SAF Senior Director of Litigation William Sack told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cSo you can post, you can publish a book, here\u2019s how to build a gun with diagrams and instructions and a build sheet, no one\u2019s questioning that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur perspective is that does not change at all if what you\u2019re publishing is computer files,\u201d Sack continued.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the First Amendment claim, SAF also asked the high court to resolve what they described as a \u201cspat\u201d between the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.<\/p>\n

A three-judge panel from the Third Circuit New Jersey\u2019s ban, when the case was transferred to New Jersey due to a federal district court ruling in Texas. However, the Fifth Circuit overturned the lower court\u2019s ruling and directed that the case be returned, which the New Jersey court refused to do, according to the petition SAF filed with the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fifth Circuit and the Third Circuit kind of got into a spat,\u201d SAF Senior Director of Litigation William Sack told the DCNF. \u201cThe case bounced back and forth between them, and then essentially a dispute arose between them as to who rightfully had the case, and so we have filed a cert petition on both really the core First Amendment question, but also this other question because it raised an important and important kind of federal courts question as to whether, essentially what our position is that the Third Circuit kind of snatched this thing back against the Fifth Circuit\u2019s will.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Democratic New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.<\/p>\n

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