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Posted on 11/28/2013 3:30:55 PM PST by marktwain
National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea reports that Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) has announced his intention to renew the ban on "plastic guns," set to expire next December:
A test of a printed plastic lower firearm receiver has resulted in an anti-gun politician demanding renewal of a law against a gun that does not exist, Live Science reported today, citing a call by Rep. Steve Israel, D- N.Y., to renew “the federal ban on plastic guns just days after members of the ‘Wiki Weapon’ project tested a 3D-printed gun part in a live-fire test.”
The "Undetectable Firearms Act" was first passed in 1988, in (over)-reaction to polymer-frame Glock pistols--which had far more steel than could be slipped past any metal detector. An excellent short summary of the history of this law can be found at Prevent Tyranny, where we find that the 1988 law expired in 1998, and was not renewed until 2003.
Care to guess how many people were shot, or even threatened, with a "undetectable, plastic" guns over that five year span? If your guess was "zero, because no such gun existed," give yourself a cigar.
(snip0
Finally, airport security has changed rather extensively in the last 25 years. Scanning technology (and TSA groping, er . . . "pat downs") is not limited to looking for metallic objects. Even an entirely plastic gun (which, remember, does not exist--and nor does entirely plastic ammunition) would be no easier to sneak past airport screeners than a liquid or plastic explosive bomb. In fact, the bombs would be easier to slip through undetected, because they would not be limited to a familiar shape that screams "weapon."
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
If the gun does not exist, and if it did exist they could still find it, why care if they pass a law against it.
Why not let them waste their time doing this instead of passing a law that will actually hurt us.
Seems to me that the toy cowboy guns that I had as a child looked just like the real thing.
Give the commie progs an inch, they will take a mile.
Let me see.... two plastic tubes... yep, zip gun, go to jail.
Holder brags about making people afraid of using incandecent bulbs.
Global warming is of the same design of terror. what if te,peratures went sown and we had no coal plants to warm Earth?
You guessed it. All these legislations are one way shut downs without possible reversal.
This is man made dark age genocide.
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