Undetectable Firearms Act Renewal and Friends of Ross Ulbricht
All,
Defense Distributed's advancements in rifle receiver and magazine printing have been plagued since December 2012 by a growing chorus of legislators demanding that the activities we popularized this year be made illegal from the municipal to the federal level.
Since May, Chuck Schumer and other New York Democrats have been trying to get out of House and Senate committees bills that would renew the Undetectable Firearms Act but also widen its prohibitions to cover 3D printed receivers and magazines- a naked effort at making inroads into the next generation of the digital manufacture of weapons. These changes can been seen in the proposed bills here and here. Sections 4 and 5, please don't just take my word for it.
As the picture above demonstrates, the imaging game has changed. Advanced digital imaging techniques render much of the airport metal detector concern mute, and certainly not applicable to concerns about polymer magazines and receivers- concerns no one actually has.
Perhaps you've seen the latest round of press on the issue since DOJ has been pushing the usual media organs to carry the story and recycle a recent ATF press conference on The Liberator. Schumer and company tried to pass the new UFA without debate last week after Reid implemented the controversial cloture rules change, and so it's time to stand up for your rights if you are interested in preserving an individual right to firearm manufacture. Sens. Cruz and Lee may be with us, and they are worth contacting.
This is a gun control effort wrapped in security theater. Anyone can buy a plastic mag and receiver online or at Walmart. Mandating arbitrary amounts of metal be part of their fabrication is an attempt to frustrate and suppress the development of this technology and narrow your liberties under your nose.
