Don't understand how you could possibly stop them in this case.

Technically that gun is already illegal. Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988. Set to expire in December. The small nail for the firing pin isn't enough to set off a metal detector in an airport, neither is a single .22 ( I don't know the exact threshold but I know a .22 won't set off the alarm) that's the problem with gun legislation in this country. Instead of enforcing the current laws, they make new ones. Such a law makes sense(the one that is already on the books), a new law baanning the printing won't work though. Given that as long as it's for personal use, ones does not require a manufacturing license. Placing a ban on printing firearms would require them to address the laws surrounding the manufacturing of guns for personal use but knowing lawmakers, they'll be inconsistent with it and place a ban on the printer itself or printing itself and completely ignore the other side.

This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on May 7 2013 01:58pm

A huge break through in technology and something bad can come from it.

Better start banning millions of other things that can be turned into weapons.

These guys put a 6-inch piece of steel inside the weapon to create enough metal as to not be undetectable.

...we're not talking about the receivers they printed and used. This is a completely printed gun, the only metal is the nail they use for a firing pin. It even says so in the article. So like I said, it's already illegal.

This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on May 7 2013 02:22pm

Can't wait until the day I can walk down to Kinkos and get an abortion and a printed 3D gun all in the same place.

/s

Yes, of course we should ban that shit.

It's dangerous, unreglated and untrackable.

no...it's unenforceable

Nah, i think you have the right to print arms.

the printed gun disintigrated after firing five or six rounds, its reciever cannot withstand the force released upon discharge.