NRA hypocrisy around 3D printed guns and Schimel’s totally unprepared

Remember the long term meme from the National Rifle Association? “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns” (well yes…anyone hanging onto an illegal item would be an outlaw by definition…lol)? But the point of their argument is, even if guns were illegal, those intent on doing harm would be able to get a gun.

But now we have plastic guns…guns that anyone can print out on a 3D printer…without a background check…guns that can’t be detected in metal detectors.

The manufacturing of guns undetectable by metal detectors or airport screening has been illegal since 1988, but a recent agreement between the State Department and a 3D-printable gun advocate would have resulted in the online posting of blueprints for such guns Wednesday.

Well, guess what? The NRA says publishing the code to print a plastic gun doesn’t have to be regulated because…it’s illegal to do so. So since plastic guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have plastic guns!

Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, said Tuesday that news reporters and “anti-gun politicians” have “wrongly claimed that 3D printing technology will allow for the production and widespread proliferation of undetectable plastic firearms.”

Cox said regardless of whether blueprints for such guns are posted online, “undetectable plastic guns have been illegal for 30 years,” referring to a 1988 law that bans them and makes it illegal to produce, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer or receive such guns.

This is really rich. Anti-gun politicians “wrongly claimed that 3D printing technology will allow for the production and widespread proliferation of undetectable plastic firearms.” Actually it seems pretty obvious to me that they exactly are right and I bet his membership will be in the forefront of printing them.

And not even the president agrees on this one:

President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that the selling of such guns “doesn’t seem to make much sense!”

Now on to Wisconsin’s own Attorney General Brad Schimel, who just happens to be up for re-election in 2018. His take?

Attorney General Brad Schimel isn’t saying whether he would seek to stop the manufacturing of plastic firearms imperceptible to metal detectors but suggested the Department of Justice is studying the issue.

(emphasis mine)

Studying the issue? This has been an issue since President Obama’s administration…AG Schimel should have a position by now. No, really he should…just another example of not being up to the job of attorney general.

One take away here…the plans are already in the wild…and ‘gun enthusiast’s are printing plastic guns as I write this. So the next step is to dismantle the TSA stations at all of our airport gates, remove the metal detectors from our schools and businesses, and throw away any hand held wands used for security searches…because as of now they aren’t worth a lick and we are wasting our money.

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3 thoughts on “NRA hypocrisy around 3D printed guns and Schimel’s totally unprepared

  1. How do you write a law against this, impossible. these plans are out forever.

  2. I thought progressives wanted all guns to be under powered, single shot, bulky weapons that are as likely to injure the user (by blowing up) as the victim. A motivated individual with a pointy stick if far more dangerous that this printed plastic trinket.

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