NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines
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NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines
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Re: NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines
#2It begins!
Re: NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines
#3This headline is pretty misleading. He just introduced a bill to renew an already existing ban on non-metallic guns and magazines.
Re: NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines
#4Who cares if a magazine can be picked up by a metal detector?
Re: NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines
#5If you ban plastic, someone will figure out a way to do it with metal. Besides, the only way a plastic magazine would be undetectable is if it were empty, which make it effectively useless anyhow.
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#6> announced he would be introducing legislation to renew a ban on firearms and magazines that can't be picked up by standard metal detectors. The current ban on plastic firearms expires this year.
In other words, the only thing this has to do with printed magazines is that printed magazines are being used as a talking point to promote the bill.
Printed magazines, when printed with plastic, would still be picked up by a metal detector since they need a large metal spring (yes, there are printed plastic springs. they suck). Printed magazines printed with metal would obviously be unaffected by this law.
The concept of a "plastic gun" is (currently at least) largely an urban legend anyway. Glocks set off metal detectors just fine.
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#7Who cares if a magazine can be picked up by a metal detector?
Let's see: Everyone who does screening. Everyone who poses a natural target (judges, DAs, federal officers, etc) whose protection depends on screening. Everyone who works in a federal building where they are not allowed to carry guns, and therefore relies on a metal detector to keep gun carrying people out. Everyone who flies. One could go on.
Re: NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines
#8Who cares if a magazine can be picked up by a metal detector?
Let's see: Everyone who does screening. Everyone who poses a natural target (judges, DAs, federal officers, etc) whose protection depends on screening. Everyone who works in a federal building where they are not allowed to carry guns, and therefore relies on a metal detector to keep gun carrying people out. Everyone who flies. One could go on.
A magazine that cannot be picked up by a metal detector is useless. It means that the spring, the ammunition, and the rest of the gun are all missing.
I mean, if you threw it perhaps it could hurt, but if it's made of plastic probably not so much.
Re: NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines
#9> announced he would be introducing legislation to renew a ban on firearms and magazines that can't be picked up by standard metal detectors. The current ban on plastic firearms expires this year. In other words, the only thing this has to do with printed magazines is that printed magazines are being used as a talking point to promote the bill. Printed magazines, when printed with plastic, would still be picked up by…
The idea of a plastic Glock appeared in one of the Die Hards. For all I know that's where it originated.
Re: NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines
#10> announced he would be introducing legislation to renew a ban on firearms and magazines that can't be picked up by standard metal detectors. The current ban on plastic firearms expires this year. In other words, the only thing this has to do with printed magazines is that printed magazines are being used as a talking point to promote the bill. Printed magazines, when printed with plastic, would still be picked up by…
The idea of a plastic Glock appeared in one of the Die Hards. For all I know that's where it originated.
Die Hard 2 I believe. That's where I first heard it too.