Washington, May 9 (ANI): In another effort to prevent the manufacture and possession of weapons, a D.C. Council member Tommy Wells has proposed a legalization to ban plastic guns made with 3-D printers, following a Texas-based group's successful test fire of the first functional weapon.
The newly emerged 3-D technology has recently been used to make weapons, the Washington Times reports.
The report said that Wells has introduced a recent bill claiming the manufacture or possession of the 3-D made guns illegal.
Wells has expressed concern over public safety as the dangerous weapon can have as it requires nothing more than a personal desktop and a 3-D printer to be made.
According to the report, Defense Distributed, the Texas-based group has distributed weapon's blueprints online, thereby making it available for the general public to download the file and make a gun at home.
The 3-D printers can turn the gun blueprints from digital models into actual objects by printing plastic layers which harden into place and form the deadly weapon.
The move by the chairman of the council's committee for Judiciary and Public safety to impose more gun control comes after New York Democrat Senator Charles E. Schumer
favoured federal legislation to ban the weapons and about a month after the federal legislation introduced a bill to reauthorize an existing ban on undetectable firearms.
With a majority of D.C. council members co-sponsoring Wells' bill, it is likelier that the lawmakers will support restrictions on the homemade firearms as well.
While the Federal Undetectable Firearms Act set to expire in December this year bans undetectable weapons, the guns manufactured by 3-D printers stand to be life-threatening as they can be printed at home, and remain undetected through metal detectors or X-ray machines, decreasing the chances for regulation, as recognized by Wells that such weapons create a significant and immediate threat to public safety. (ANI)
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