"Plastic" Gun Ban to End - Millions to Die

[Ben]

At least if you believe Schumer (and who doesn't?).

Interesting that Schumer, one of the authors of the first bill, is now saying the threat from the dreaded plastic gun was "theoretical" before 3D printers. For those old enough to remember the original bill's introduction, you remember that Glocks were going to show up everywhere and commit murder. Nothing "theoretical" about it. I still reel at the stupidity of people who were shown a gun with a STEEL barrel that insisted it was an invisible plastic killing machine.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/14/threat-plastic-guns-grows-as-undetectable-firearm-law-set-to-expire/

[Monkeyleg]

I remember that bill. Dick Cheney was one of just four congressmen to vote against it, saying that he wouldn't vote to ban something that didn't exist.

[RoadKingLarry]

I wonder if we could get them to add a ban on poltergeists, ghosts and honest politicians as long as they're banning things that don't exist.

[TommyGunn]

I wonder if we could get them to add a ban on poltergeists, ghosts and honest politicians as long as they're banning things that don't exist.

Who said poltergeists and ghosts don't exist?   

[fifth_column]

That's why I have "No Poltergeists, Ghosts, Goblins, or any other malevolent supernatural creatures" signs at the doors to my house . . . .

[Perd Hapley]

Well, bans on the nonexistent are better than bans on certain things that do exist.

[DustinD]

HR1474 & S1149 would ban any plastic magazine body that doesn't contain one once of metal unless it is produced by a type 7 FFL. This is going to suck for any magazine sub contractors. It also makes it so that receivers would need significant metal in them, not just the completed gun.

I was really hoping this would expire without any fan fair. No media group has reported on it for several months.

From the following article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/printed-plastic-guns-a-growing-worry-for-law-enforcement/2013/11/13/211e9f74-4cad-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story.html

ATF officials, he said, have consulted on his measure, but it’s stuck in committee and its prospects appear dim. There is a similar effort in the Senate.

It also seems like the big worry is assassins with plastic guns, not the possibility of this defeating gun control measures in general. Maybe they are just saying that to not undermine their political campaign. It would be funny to ask the gun banners "who cares if any politicians get killed, we don't like them anyway, and this doesn't affect us". Probably not a good idea though.

Also from the article:

But Israel, the New York congressman, is concerned.

He said he’s making a “last-ditch effort” to renew and update the law, which currently prohibits manufacturing or possessing a gun that can’t be detected by typical airport security scanners. Asked whether such a law mattered, given that it would not be able to control what someone built in their own garage, Israel said, “You could say that about drugs, about alcohol, about just about any law.”

“It would be unfathomable to me if we are not able to renew this law right now,” he said.