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Daniel Xu | December 10, 2013
On Monday night, President Barack Obama signed a bill extended the Undetectable Firearms Act another decade.
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On Monday the Senate passed a bill that would renew the 25-year-old Undetectable Firearms Act, but did not include additional restrictions that focused on plastic firearms made with 3D printers. According to NBC News, President Barrack Obama signed the bill into law later that day.
The renewal will add another 10 years to the lifespan of the Act, which went into effect in 1988 and effectively bans any firearm which cannot be identified by metal detectors or airport imaging technology. As the Undetectable Firearms Act was set to expire on December 9, legislators who supported gun control took the opportunity to attempt to modify the language of the ban. Politico reported that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) supported an amended version of the bill that required all firearms to have a permanent metal component. This addition was made primarily in light of recent advances in 3D-printing technology. Gun control advocates say these weapons are a dangerous “loophole.”