State Department demands that it remove 3-D gun printing instructions from its site . The Distributed may have run afoul of International Traffic in Arms Regulations , letter ##head . The group 's founder complies but notes that the plans have more than 1 million downloads . A State Department spokesperson who declined to be named confirmed that the department had been in contact with Defense Distributed but would not comment further on that particular case . The Texas group released a video of a shot fired from a plastic gun .
State Department demands that it remove 3-D gun printing instructions from its site . The Distributed may have run afoul of International Traffic in Arms Regulations , letter ##head . The group 's founder complies but notes that the plans have more than 1 million downloads . The Texas group released a video of a shot fired from a plastic gun .