Title: PLASTIC Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Protect Lives and Stop the Imminent Chaos Act or the PLASTIC Act
This bill establishes new criminal offenses for making a firearm, ammunition, or component using a three-dimensional (3-D) printer, or for transferring or possessing a firearm, ammunition, or component that was made using a 3-D printer.
A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to 50 years, or both.
Additionally, the bill establishes a task force to address the national security and safety issues involving 3-D printer technology.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7016 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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 possession or transfer of a firearm, ammunition, or 
               component so made, and for other purposes.


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                    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 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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 purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

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 Investigation.
            (3) The Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
        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 support or facilitate unlawful acts, 
        including the smuggling of illicit or illegal materials which 
        may include weapons, hazardous materials, and other materials 
        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 printing 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 
        manufacturers' serial number requirement.
            (7) Address the current loophole allowing the serial number 
        exemption for the so-called ``80 percent 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 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 printer 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 TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE A FIREARM 
              OR AMMUNITION, AND ON POSSESSING OR TRANSFERRING 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 following:
    ``(aa) It shall be unlawful for any person, in or affecting 
interstate or foreign commerce, to--
            ``(1) make a firearm, ammunition, or a component 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, ammunition, or 
        component of a firearm or ammunition so made.''.
    (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.''.
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