Holder Goes After 3D Printed Plastic Guns
by AWR Hawkins 16 Nov 2013, 7:01 AM PDT
On November 15th Attorney General Eric Holder asked Congress to renew The Undetectable
Firearms Act (UFA), a law which makes it "illegal to manufacture, import,
sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer or receive" a firearm that is
undetectable by scanners.
UFA is currently in force, but will expire
on December 9th.
According to Fox News, Holder described 3D
printed plastic guns as "an extremely serious problem" and "a
very wearisome threat to law enforcement." Said Holder: "We can't
have guns in circulation that are not detectable by metal detectors."
Sens. Chuck Schumer
(D-NY) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) have called
for an outright ban on 3D printed plastic guns.
Schumer says that 3D printing has made
what "was once a hypothetical threat into a terrifying reality."
According to The Wall Journal, the ATF says
there are no "known instances of a person being shot with a plastic gun in
the U.S."
Nor is there an open criminal investigation "involving [a plastic
gun]."
Chuck Schumer
Charles
E. Schumer is a U.S. Senate
senator, and Richard J. Durbin’s Washington housemate.
Note: Richard
J. Durbin is Charles E. Schumer’s Washington housemate, a U.S. Senate senator, a member of the National
Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
National
Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is a paid for staff by the Economic Policy Institute.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Economic
Policy Institute, Refugees International,
and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, and the founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American
Constitution Society.
Bill
Richardson is a director at Refugees International,
was the commerce secretary nominee for the Barack Obama
administration, and Moving America Forward
was his state-level leadership PAC.
Clarence
W. Nelson (Bill Nelson) is an honorary chair for Moving America Forward Political Action Committee (PAC), and
a U.S. Senate senator.
Eric H.
Holder Jr. was an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense &
Educational Fund, a board member for the American
Constitution Society, and is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama
administration.
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