I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7016 
To establish a task force to address the national security and safety issues 
presented by the manufacturing of prohibited firearms, munitions, and 
related materials through the use of 3–D printing technology, to prohibit 
the use of 3–D printing technology to make a firearm, ammunition, 
or a component of a firearm or ammunition, and to prohibit the posses-
sion or transfer of a firearm, ammunition, or component so made, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 2, 2018 
Ms. JACKSON LEE (for herself, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. MOORE, and Ms. 
NORTON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To establish a task force to address the national security 
and safety issues presented by the manufacturing of 
prohibited firearms, munitions, and related materials 
through the use of 3–D printing technology, to prohibit 
the use of 3–D printing technology to make a firearm, 
ammunition, or a component of a firearm or ammunition, 
and to prohibit the possession or transfer of a firearm, 
ammunition, or component so made, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect Lives and Stop 
the Imminent Chaos Act’’ or the ‘‘PLASTIC Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TASK FORCE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Attorney General shall 
establish a task force that includes the following: 
(1) The Secretary of Homeland Security. 
(2) The Director of the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation. 
(3) The Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco, Firearms, and Explosives. 
(4) The Director of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology. 
(b) DUTIES.—The task force shall do the following: 
(1) Address national security and safety issues 
presented by the manufacturing of munitions 
through 3–D printing technology. 
(2) Address national security and safety issues 
involving 3–D printer manufacturers and suppliers 
of materials, component parts, and ancillary items, 
including composite materials used in 3–D printing 
applications. 
(3) Address the use and development of the 
technology to produce prohibited or unlawful items 
such as firearms, ammunition, component parts of 
firearms, or other materials that may be used to 
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support or facilitate unlawful acts, including the 
smuggling of illicit or illegal materials which may in-
clude weapons, hazardous materials, and other mate-
rials that present a public hazard or risk. 
(4) Work with 3–D printer manufacturers and 
suppliers of materials and component parts on ways 
to protect the public from the misuse of 3–D print-
ing technology. 
(5) Study and offer policy recommendations on 
the national security threat imposed by undetectable 
weapons, such as 3–D printed weapons that may not 
contain the requisite 3.7 ounces of metal necessary 
to set off metal detectors. 
(6) Study and offer policy recommendations on 
statutory and regulatory loopholes surrounding 
untraceable weapons such as weapons that become 
functional firearms but circumvent the manufactur-
ers’ serial number requirement. 
(7) Address the current loophole allowing the 
serial number exemption for the so-called ‘‘80 per-
cent receiver,’’, which is the central component that 
houses the firing mechanism of the weapon and 
which, by leaving the manufacturer as an unfinished 
product, allows the serial number requirement to be 
circumvented, because a purchaser may adapt ‘‘80 
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percent receivers’’ into a final product in a relatively 
uncomplicated fashion. 
(c) HEARINGS, ETC.—The task force may hold public 
hearings and engage stakeholders to better understand the 
scope of the benefits, threats, and challenges of 3–D print-
er technology. 
(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Within 6 months after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the task force shall 
submit to the Congress a report on its findings. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITIONS ON USING 3–D PRINTING TECH-
NOLOGY TO MAKE A FIREARM OR AMMUNI-
TION, AND ON POSSESSING OR TRANSFER-
RING A FIREARM OR AMMUNITION SO MADE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 922 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(aa) It shall be unlawful for any person, in or affect-
ing interstate or foreign commerce, to— 
‘‘(1) make a firearm, ammunition, or a compo-
nent of a firearm or ammunition by use of a device 
that can produce a 3-dimensional copy of an object; 
or 
‘‘(2) possess or transfer any firearm, ammuni-
tion, or component of a firearm or ammunition so 
made.’’. 
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(b) PENALTIES.—Section 924(a) of such title is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(aa) 
shall be fined $500,000, imprisoned not more than 50 
years, or both.’’. 
Æ 
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