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Posted on 07/31/2018 4:31:35 PM PDT by PROCON
FAIRFAX, Va.— Chris W. Cox, executive director, National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, released the following statement on Tuesday:
“Many anti-gun politicians and members of the media have wrongly claimed that 3-D printing technology will allow for the production and widespread proliferation of undetectable plastic firearms. Regardless of what a person may be able to publish on the Internet, undetectable plastic guns have been illegal for 30 years. Federal law passed in 1988, crafted with the NRA’s support, makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive an undetectable firearm.”
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A plastic gun with no metal parts is a plastic pipe bomb shaped like a gun.
Except that many of the gun plans call for 3D METAL milling machines.
I disagree with the NRA here.
If you can make them it should be fine no matter how detectable they might be.
I do wonder just how useful a plastic gun would be. Some parts need to be made of steel.
There is now titanium 3d printing technology.
A firearm that won’t rust and never wear out?
There is no firearm that is 100% plastic.
Springs, firing pins. Barrels. Casings. Plenty of metal to detect. Reinforcement metal on stress point areas.
The statement was released because the media has been reporting that they’re ALL plastic.
You are absolutely correct! I can now purchase a milling machine and produce an AR15 for under a 1/2 million each. Wow, what a deal. I guess I would have to paint it black for it to be scary though.
Bananas are detectable by x-ray.
Any plastic capable of firing more than one round without exploding would be easily detected by X-ray.
The modern color X-ray used in airports are not going to be fooled by a plastic gun.
If one was missed it would be the fault of the human being and not the machine or the plastic gun being undetectable.
The barrel would almost certainly have to be metal. It might be possible to make a barrel out of some exotic ceramic material since we have knives now with ceramic blades but a barrel has to also withstand quite a bit of pressure.
You don’t need to make the gun all plastic. Just the part which is the “firearm”, per BATF definition.
Take the Glock, for example. The plastic frame is the piece with the serial number. I can buy a replacement barrel over the counter. I can buy the trigger assembly over the counter. So if I create a Glock frame, I can buy everything else that’s needed to make it a working gun for cash without paperwork.
Same thing for many other handguns and rifles. For an AR15, you just have to make the lower. The upper, with the barrel, you can buy for cash.
Second Amendment is in force and the right to keep and bear arms is a heck of a lot harder to infringe. Heads are exploding.
Then why didn't you complain back in 1988?????
Airport X-ray machines can detect guns. Can we be sure that the TSA guy would be able to recognise a PART of a disassembled gun as being a gun?
If I can make my own axe or hammer, I should be able to make my own gun, no matter what materials are used.
“You don’t need to make the gun all plastic. Just the part which is the “firearm”, per BATF definition.”
It doesn’t have to be plastic at all. We’ve been bending flats for AKs for years. Since those start life as a sheet of metal, it has no serial number.
How do you know I didn’t?
Some chewed pop tarts for guides.
Considering the quality of government training and government employees, you may have a point
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