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These "plastic or otherwise undetectable" guns are already illegal and have been for decades, since GLOCK and some yellow journalism put the fear in Congress ar
by RyJones 11y ago
These "plastic or otherwise undetectable" guns are already illegal and have been for decades, since GLOCK and some yellow journalism put the fear in Congress around the time Lethal Weapon came out.
- sandyarmstrong 11y agoDid Lethal Weapon have plastic firearms? My first thought was In the Line of Fire.
- RyJones 11y agoI'm sorry, it was Die Hard. http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/Glock_7 http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/Glock_7
- hga 11y agoI'm sure there was some genuine fear, e.g. I'm thinking about NY Republican gun grabber Peter King, who after fellow Representative Gabby Giffords was shot (with a Glock...) proposed a law that would create a floating, 1,000 foot bubble around important people like him in which it would be illegal for normal people like us to possess a gun (!). But like what this discussion is about, there's a strong pattern by the serious gun grabbers to try to ban anything new, be it the first wildly successful polymer frame handgun (the Glock of course has a steel slide and barrel, but the original proposal was to ban it despite it being easy to detect), or these newfangled printed guns.
- sgrove 11y agoIs "Gun Grabber" some kind of derogatory but catchy term for someone proposing gun-regulation? I've never heard it before, wondering if it's common (perhaps in some geographical areas more than others).