Extending plastic gun ban just first step?

Washington Times ^ | December 2, 2013 | David Sherfinski

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Gun rights groups are rallying to try to stop any extension of a federal law to ban undetectable plastic guns, saying that if the House GOP passes something then Senate Democrats will turn it into a broader gun control push.

Congress is racing a Dec. 9 deadline when the existing ban expires. The House was slated to vote Monday night but put it off until Tuesday to accommodate bill sponsor Rep. Howard Coble, a North Carolina Republican whose flight back to the capital was canceled Monday.

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Mr. Coble’s legislation would extend the existing ban, first enacted in 1988, which makes it illegal to manufacture, own, transport, buy, or sell any firearm that is not detectable by metal detector and/or does not present an accurate image when put through an X-ray machine.

[realcleanguy]

The Nanny State, where the Government tells you what you can and can’t wear, what you can and can’t see, and what you can and can’t listen to. They are in your bedrooms, tell you what is sex and what isn’t, what to do if you get pregnant, what perversion you should embrace, and they are in your kitchen, telling you what you can and can’t eat or drink even though you can buy anything. Soon the government will break down your doors and drag you away because you think you don’t like them.

[moovova]

While I know little or nothing about “printing” plastic guns, I do know, with the advent of the 3-D printer...that horse done left the barn.

[Biggirl]

Revot is coming.

[Biggirl]

You got it and it will never come back to the barn.

[smokingfrog]

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/11/us/house-vote-backs-a-plastic-gun-ban.html