NJ AG: Takedown notice that led to new gun-file lawsuit came from Slovakia—not us

Enlarge / Hmm, those don't seem to be the same thing. (credit: Google Maps)
Last week, it appeared that Defense Distributed's battle against the State of New Jersey over a recently enacted 'ghost gun' law had new life. This week, a filing from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office puts one of the new lawsuit's inciting incidents into question.
In a February 12 letter (PDF) to District of New Jersey Judge Anne Thompson, NJ Assistant AG Glenn J. Moramarco writes that a recent takedown notice submitted to Cloudflare and aimed at the website CodeIsFreeSpeech was faked.
'A key document supporting Plaintiff's TRO application—a 'takedown notice' purportedly sent by [New Jersey AG's Division of Criminal Justice] to CloudFlare, Inc., which hosts one of the plaintiff's websites, CodeIsFreeSpeech.com—was not in fact issued by DCJ,' the NJ AG's office writes in the filing. '[It] appears to have been issued by some entity impersonating the Attorney General's Office.'
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