There is a clear reason why both business and law enforcement leaders count ourselves among the broad and diverse coalition of supporters of a critically important bill pending in Albany right now, the Clean Slate NY Act (S.211/A.1029). This legislation would be an essential tool for advancing public safety, fairness, and economic empowerment.
A pair of Upper West Side elected officials, along with the Manhattan District Attorney, are leading the fight against the surge of 3D-printed guns in New York City.
Lawmakers and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg are proposing a change to state law they said would close a loophole to make it easier to prosecute people who manufacture homemade, untraceable firearms, also known as ghost guns.
In just hours – and for a few hundred dollars, you could make a real gun in your house that is untraceable – and nearly 100 percent polymer.
It can all be made on a 3D printer — including extended magazines that can hold 30-50 bullets.
People who own and sell ghost guns are committing a crime — but there’s no law against making the deadly weapons that authorities say are a rising threat to New Yorkers.
Anyone with a 3D printing machine capable of churning out magazines, receivers and other firearm parts can whip up an untraceable semiautomatic weapon in their kitchen in less time than it takes to cook a turkey.
