House Passes Renewal on 25-Year-Old Plastic Gun BanMelissa Melton The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ordered Wilson to remove the plans within days, claiming he violated arms export controls; by then, they had already been downloaded over 100,000 times. Director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Brian Malte was quoted as saying, We cant let a minute or hour or day go by without having a renewal. All of this fearmongering over plastic printed guns seems ridiculously overblown for one simple reason: criminals dont really care about regulations, laws or bans. They never have. As Bloombergs Paul Barrett pointed out, Even if a criminal did, for some reason, want to make his own firearm, there are less complicated ways to do it than using a $10,000 3D printer hooked up to a laptop. If criminals want to get guns and perpetrate crimes, theyll get guns, printer or no printer. Thousands of gun control laws and so-called gun-free zones later, and amazingly, America still has gun crime. In fact, the majority of the highly publicized shootings as of late have occurred in gun-free zones where people were not able to arm and protect themselves. Why? Well, because criminals do not obey lawsthats what the definition of the word criminal is. The Senate is expected to pass the ban next week, and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has vowed to further tighten restrictions. Some Senate Dems have attempted to amend the law to require all plastic guns to include at least one metal piece before they can be fired. Related chronicle of 3D-printed weapons: Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared,and a co-creator of Truthstream Media. Wake the flock up! 