Posted on 05/09/2013 5:14:34 PM PDT by dennisw
State Sen. Leland Yee told KQED’s Paul Lancour today that he is planning to introduce legislation to require people who manufacture guns on 3-D printers to undergo background checks. If that effort should fail, Yee said he then will attempt to have such weapons banned altogether.
“What I’m looking at right now is to ensure that any individual who is going to make a gun out of these 3-D printers go through a background check, just like any other individuals who purchase a gun,” Yee said.
Yee’s announcement mirrors efforts by legislators on a national level to regulate 3-D guns in the wake of a YouTube video demonstrating just how easily such weapons can be made. They require as few as 15 components that can all be built on 3-D printers.
“What is even more dangerous about these guns,” said Yee, “ is that because they are made out of polymer [they] in fact can go through a metal detector or an X-ray machine undetected."
Yee’s initial focus on the background check issue also comes soon after the apparent failure on Capitol Hill to expand background checks on a national level. Those legislative efforts came after the school killings in Newtown, Conn., last December.
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Leland Yee to Introduce Bill Requiring Background Checks for Lathes
More like having to get a license to advise someone else how to avoid or recover from the common cold.
BTW, if you put your finger under your nose when you feel the urge to sneeze, just like the cartoons, it actually works.
the mistake is letting them know you have any common cents or they for to be taxing you so come across as a little off cause i always thot it was better to be a little off than a little moron
People who run for president should have to pass a background check. Traitors and people who pledge allegiance to foreign ideologies will fail.
Currently, if you build your own gun, there is no background check.
Gov’t: “All your base are belong to us”
me: “I got no basis”
kinda like that ?
Why does he think they need a law? Homeland Security just confiscates the plans.
Stoopit A-Hole.
His are you going to outlaw knowledge?
I saw a show where Abu Sayuf, in the Philippines, making them by hand with common tools.
One guy can produce a 1911 in a little under a week .
A disk would be cheaper. You can get them for pennies each.
You’re right
CD-R discs, take a whiel to burn them all but one could setup a few spindles of 100 each at a gun show with the files on them.
You could put an eye ot with that thing...
Wire at hotel...
not like people can’t make guns already out of wood and metal parts from a supply store. good grief the liberals’think it could not have been done before with existing materials for a hell of a/lot less than a damn 3d printer.
They cannot force a man to have health insurance if he chooses to do without it ?
Political speech is the exact speech the First Amendment was intended to protect.
FK him. I can make a four winds gun in 20 minutes and then toss it.
They can’t force him to use it.
They also can’t force me to pick up my mail.
Heck, why not call it a ‘Freedom Download’ and include an entire library. Everything from The Constitution and Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, Eaker’s Survival manual, various 3D designs like this one, and a lot of other ‘banned’ knowledge.
Leland Yee needs to put his crack pipe down and rejoin
the world of sane and rational thinking.
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