New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has been hit with a federal lawsuit over his efforts to prevent distribution of plans for making handguns with 3-D printers.

Groups advocating for unfettered access to such blueprints are seeking a judicial declaration that their constitutional rights were violated by the state’s efforts to prevent their distribution. The suit was filed in federal court in Trenton Tuesday, just three days after the attorney general directed an internet services provider to take down a website devoted to the distribution of 3-D gun plans, according to the plaintiffs.

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