3D-printed guns are coming to America unless Congress acts. But the NRA doesn't want them to.

NBC News ^ | August 1, 2018 | Harley Rouda

[2ndDivisionVet]

It took a federal judge and a temporary injunction on Tuesday night but, at least until next Thursday, it's not yet legal for anyone with access to a 3D printer, the correct materials and enough patience for a YouTube tutorial to print any kind of guns from the comfort of their own home. The last minute court ruling comes on the heels of a settlement between Trump's State Department — which had initially called the gun blueprints a violation of U.S. export law — and the Texas-based nonprofit Defense Distributed, which legally permits the latter to re-release the plans.

In truth, probably only Congress, which declined to do so on Tuesday, can stop 3D-printed plastic guns from becoming a reality in America.

But the only sound coming from Republican leadership on the issue of regulating 3D-printed guns is their efforts to block legislation to prevent the plans' release; the president tweeted only that he's "looking into it" and consulting the NRA. (Notably, in 2013, the NRA opposed any expansion of the Undetectable Firearms Act that would've made it illegal for individuals to create these weapons, so one can imagine how they advised him.) Sadly, at a time when members of Congress are being duped into enthusiastically endorsing fake programs that promote arming children and the president praises the NRA at their own convention, neither is a surprise....

[2ndDivisionVet]

He doesn't fully come out and say it, but he's a Democratic candidate for congress.

[CIB-173RDABN]

It is really funny that up until the second half of the last century guns were fairly easy to get.

You could order one from a catalog or buy one at a hardware store.

Citizens were not killing each other randomly and mass shooting were rare.

What has gun control got us?

Unarmed citizens and armed criminals.

We not only don’t need more gun control we need less.

[JayGalt]

NRA Shoots Back: These 3D Printed Untraceable Guns Have Been Illegal For Three Decades

The National Rifle Association had to point out Tuesday that any untraceable gun is outlawed in reference to the recent legal settlement that will allow for the blueprints on how to print and set up a gun from a 3D printer to be available to the public.

Breaking: The NRA’s Chris Cox is out with a statement on 3D printed guns. pic.twitter.com/C2NkyqyNDf

— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) July 31, 2018

“Many anti-gun politicians and members of the media have wrongly claimed that 3D 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,” Chris Cox, the NRA-ILA Executive Director, said, according to Stephen Gutowski.

He continued, “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.”

http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/31/nra-ghost-guns-illegal/

[lgjhn23]

Technology has a knack of obsoleting old draconian RAT laws.

[mabarker1]

If you don’t want CITIZENS TO HAVE FIREARMS THEN YOU ARE commieratlib AND CAN KISS MY A$$ !!!!

I DON’T CARE WHO YOU ARE!!

[PapaBear3625]

It is really funny that up until the second half of the last century guns were fairly easy to get. You could order one from a catalog or buy one at a hardware store.

We've made a lot of progress in rolling back the anti-gun agenda over the last few decades. Now most states are "shall issue", and an increasing number are "constitutional carry".

The gun-grabbers plans rest on their ability to ultimately confiscate all guns. Next on the agenda, hopefully with Trump's help, is eliminating the BATF "gun registry", the database of who owns what guns, which has been illegally compiled by them over the years.

Finally, would be restoring gun rights to how they were a hundred years ago, when anyone could anonymously buy a gun for cash.

[a fool in paradise]

3D printed guns are a thing whether or not they are legal and terrorists have the finances to make them.

Not everyone will have access to equipment.

[marktwain]

The files he is concerned about have been available and legal for U.S. Citizens to print for the last five years.

The sky has not fallen.

This is all propaganda alarmism.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

> for anyone with access to a 3D printer, the correct materials and enough patience for a YouTube tutorial to print any kind of guns from the comfort of their own home

Which is obviously much worse than for anyone with access to a moderately well-equipped workshop, some scrap metal, and the mechanical aptitude to do some hammering and filing to make any kind of gun. Although I’m not sure how.

[Azeem]

The idiots at NBC don’t know that home-built guns are unregistered and legal. They always have been.

[Secret Agent Man]

All you need to see are the demographcs of who is doing most of the murders.

Deal with that demographc and it eliminates at least 70% of all violnt crime and murders we have.

[lgjhn23]

“...Deal with that demographc and it eliminates at least 70% of all violnt crime and murders we have....”
Hmmmm....yeah, but “dthatd be raccissst”.

[JudgemAll]

Gunsmithing is a man niche. 3D printing brings guns to the culture as a chick can now push one button and make one, just like her iphone and PS3 made her all of a sudden a computing device geek

This is the most important battle for gun culture. Do not let them intimidate women who they know do not like the inconvenience of confrontation

3D printing guns or we will go back to the dark ages with the burkas by and by, I garrantee it

[JudgemAll]

Why the NRA always go in CYA mode? Have they become a PR agency of appologies for owning guns? What utter bull sht

[SkyDancer]

How much would the printer, software and material cost vs buying or stealing a firearm. The snowflakes are hyperventilating again. My dad already has a 75 page instruction book on how to make a fully automatic machine gun in any caliber from .22LR up to .45; and get this - he downloaded off a website in the UK!

[Kickass Conservative]

It’s a good thing that only Americans can post stuff on the Internet.

Oh wait...

[The Louiswu]

License and register all 3D printers. Embed all printer filament with a specific, traceable compound. Congress will make it happen

[JayGalt]

IDK, but if the law has been on the books for many years, it’s been on the books. I don’t see it as covering your arse. The possibility of 3D printing will change many things. I think the criminals would be right on this, much faster than the law abiding.

[Truth29]

What an awful idea. That sounds just like what a Democrat or Democrat/RINO collaborationist Congress would do.

[rstrahan]

The blueprints hit the internet from multiple sites. A judge’s order to one entity didn’t stop it