{"id":9403,"date":"2013-12-09T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2013-12-09T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:55:26","slug":"way-way-too-late-chuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=9403","title":{"rendered":"Way, way too late Chuck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chuck is still going off<\/a> on plastic guns, “Plastic firearms concern Schumer”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Legislation to ban plastic guns that can’t be detected by metal detectors could head to the White House for President Barack Obama’s <\/a>signature Monday night, hours before the current ban expires at midnight … Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.<\/a>, said in an interview Friday he plans to separately propose expanding the law to require that all firearms have integral metal components detectable by X-ray machines. \u00a0Schumer and other Democrats are concerned about the use of commercially available 3-D printing technology that can produce guns from digital models …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s way behind the times, “Cheap 3D printer works with steel<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

“The one thing that made 3D printed guns tolerable to the non-gun-owning community was that they were made of plastic, because metal 3D printers were costly. Now, a bunch of scientists from Michigan Tech<\/a> are showing off a cheap 3D printer that fabricates in metal. Metal 3D printing isn’t new, but it’s been expensive until now. The open-source Michigan project, here<\/a>, offers a bill of materials costing just under $US1,200 to build the 3D printer, controlled by a Linux computer. The printer, described in detail here, produces steel components, and while its creators describe it as \u201ca work in progress\u201d, they’ve already successfully produced simple shapes like sprockets …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n