Posted on 01/19/2013 12:44:11 PM PST by Carriage Hill
U.S. Representative Steve Israel (D-Huntington, N.Y.) plans to propose a ban on creating gun magazines with 3-D printers. The bill is still in the drafting stage, but Israel intends to make sure existing legislation includes consideration for this new kind of homemade firearm.
Last month, Rep. Israel proposed to renew the Undetectable Firearms Act, which was adopted in 1988 and will expire in December of this year. Israel suggested that the act, which requires all guns to be detectable by such devices as X-ray machines and metal detectors, is more relevant than ever.
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It will start with registration and common sense ban on assault 3d printers.
IIRC, those printed plastic ‘springs’ didn’t last very long. And I think the feed lips also had some cracking problems.
That’s too sensible for the lib-dems; they want to regulate and tax it and the printers. I can see a Dept of Technology becoming a cabinet-level post, soon. Actually surprised we’re not there, already.
FUSI!
Points well-taken.
Your point #3 reminds me of the proliferation of “designer drugs” being mfg’d by simply changing a chemical formula, in someone’s garage lab, thereby getting around the DEA/FDA laws and causing them to scramble to pass new regs/laws.
Run, rabbit run!
There almost always is a way around something.
That moves it into the FDA/dental hygiene area now, and they’d be all over it like a cheap suit. Ban, or regulate and tax; it’s what the lib-dem do.
“... keeps your printer from printing anything that looks like U.S. paper currency.”
They can do that now? Wow.
We’re just going to have to outlaw all 3D printers.
That was my thought, I thought the whole point to the 3D printing was to give people a way of always being able to get gun parts and and magazines if the Government bans them outright. Hence a ban on printing such devices would be rather superfluous...
And they'd be detectable when they were loaded. Unloaded they pose no danger.
The commies actually tried to hold back xerography. Fat lot of good that did them.
Fortunately R&D is pushing right ahead with ARMS ~
Steve’s a real nimrod he is! Just another in a long line of useless, pedantic, democrat asses desperate to get their names on any piece of legislation.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=plastic+springs+material&oq=plastic+springs&gs_l=hp.1.1.0l3j0i30.0.0.1.500.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.p5N_508x6VM&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41248874,d.b2U&fp=e33da1aae51909f2&biw=1600&bih=778 ~ huge bunch of things about plastic springs.
Soon, you'll need an Android cellphone to use as your base, and some cheap plastic pipe to stuff small rockets with miniature guidance systems into ~
Those early armories looked a lot like livery stables with resident ironsmiths. The future armories will look a lot like a kid on a cellphone with plumbing parts.
Only a Demolshevik can read “unalienable rights” and think “but 63% say...”.
Only a Demolshevik can read “shall NOT be infringed” and think “let’s limit them to two or three bullets”.
These people treat the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution like toilet paper. They are the single greatest threat in the world to our liberty.
I have an old friend who is undoubtedly working on that stumbling block ~ he has his counterfeiting convictions to prove his interest.
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