Legislation would outlaw the distribution of blueprints for 3D printed firearms

Sens. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) introduced legislation last week that would make it illegal to distribute online blueprints and instructions that detail how to automatically program a 3D printer to produce or manufacture a firearm.

The 3D Printed Gun Safety Act is in response to a lawsuit the Trump administration settled in 2018 with gun proponents. The administration agreed to permit the online posting of schematics for the 3D printing of firearms.

3D printed firearms are made out of plastic. This makes them untraceable because they do not have serial numbers. It also means they can bypass metal detectors at security checkpoints.

When instructions for 3D printing firearms and firearm parts are available online, they can easily be accessed by those intending to commit gun crimes, felons, domestic abusers and other dangerous people, Markey’s office said.

The bill was cosponsored by more than 50 senators and representatives and is supported by the Violence Policy Center, the States United to Prevent Violence, Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence, March for Our Lives, Everytown for Gun Safety, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and Orange Ribbons for Jaime.

Last year, Congress members urged tech companies to block 3D gun blueprint distribution.

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Except that this violates 1st Amendment Freedom of Speech, and there's no law that says you can't make your own guns -- even if they don't have serial numbers -- so long as they're for your own use and not as a commercial venture.

So there's that.

Ted Deutch is the same vegan and an Israel-hating Jew who introduced a bill back in March that would have labeled all semi-auto weapons with detachable magazines (except tubular mags) as NFA devices. Same category as machine guns, short-barreled rifles and silencers. Only they were due to be registered in less time than the system could possibly process them all, which would turn all semi-auto owners with (non-tubular) detachable mags into criminals, unless they somehow disposed of all their guns.

I highly recommend tragic boating accidents, my favorite way to dispose of firearms made illegal by Israel-hating Jewish vegans.