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Congress set to extend plastic firearm ban, but gun control advocates aren’t happy

Software engineer Travis Lerol takes aim with an unloaded Liberator handgun in the backyard of his home. The Liberator is the first gun that can be made entirely with parts from a 3D printer and computer-aided design (CAD) files downloaded from the Internet. (AFP Photo / Robert MacPherson)

The United States Congress is expected to renew a ban against plastic firearms on Monday only hours before it would expire, but gun control advocates say lawmakers are doing too little to tackle the greater issue this time around.

Monday’s vote is expected to end with the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 being extended for another decade, but efforts to augment that law to accommodate for new technology will be ignored, leaving the task of regulating weapons made with 3D printers to be brought up for debate at a later time.

Under its current language, the law prohibits the manufacturing, importing, selling, shipping, delivery or transfer of any firearm that eludes metal detectors, x-ray machines and other types of screening devices. The problem with this, gun control advocates insist, is that the metal components built into plastic weapons to make them detectable can often easily be removed.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) has been attempting to alter current law to add a provision that would mandate otherwise all-plastic guns to be manufactured with a permanent metal part, but firearm enthusiasts and lobbyists at the likes of the National Rifle Association have largely rejected the notion.

The Senate is now expected to shoot down Schumer’s proposal during a vote in Washington on Monday, but approve the extension on the 1988 ban.

Voting down Schumer’s proposal will be the second major blow to gun control initiatives in 2013 and comes eight months after the Senate rejected a plan for expanded background checks for interested gun buyers. It also falls just short of the one-year-anniversary of a mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary school, which ended in more than two dozen fatalities.

“The gun lobby still has enormous power in Washington — more, frankly, than I thought they still had,” Sen. Chris Murphy, (D-Connecticut), who represented Newtown last year while in the House of Representatives, told the Associated Press. The House voted to extend the 1988 ban last Tuesday without including any new rules for new weapons, despite 3D-printed firearms becoming increasingly prevalent in recent months.

“Back then, in 1988, the notion of a 3D plastic gun was science fiction,” Rep Steve Israel (D-New York) told USA Today in November. “Now, a month away, it is reality.”

Just this year, a handful of developers released the digital blueprints necessary to make functioning firearms using increasingly affordable 3D printer technology. At issue here, Schumer has said, is that these homemade weapons may call for metal parts, but they aren’t actually required to make the gun shoot.

“The expiration of this law, combined with advances in 3D printing make what was once a hypothetical threat into a terrifying reality,” he said recently. “We are actively exploring all options to pass legislation that will eliminate the threat of completely undetectable weapons.”

“What we believe is the best proposal is to say there has to be a piece of metal that’s part of the gun that’s not removable, a significant part of the gun, the trigger, the barrel, the handle, stuff like that,” he added on Friday to reporters at Gannett newspapers.

Schumer’s attempt was met with strong opposition by the likes of the NRA, however, who vowed to fight any expanded requirements to the Undetectable Firearms Act, “including applying the UFA to magazines, gun parts or the development of new technologies . . . that would infringe on our Second Amendment rights.”

In a statement of their own after last week’s House’s vote, Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, saluted Congress in a statement while warning that more could be done by lawmakers.

“Unfortunately, the House failed to address the fact that in the quarter century since this law was first enacted, new technologies have emerged that enable people to make and use undetectable guns that are not barred by the law,” Gross said. “Terrorists and other dangerous people can now make undetectable guns with 3-D printers in complete anonymity in their homes, enabling them to breach security and bring guns into airplanes and other secure places. We hope the Senate renews and modernizes the law to keep Americans safe.”

Speaking to Gannett, Schumer acknowledged that he would continue his fight even if his proposal was shot-down as expected this week.

“[W]e will then move the 10-year extension, which is better than nothing, and then work when we come back in January to plug this loophole,” he told the paper.

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New Generation Of Immigrant Advocates Take Radical Approach

Elizabeth Llorente
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Oct. 18, 2013

The frustration, say immigration advocates, is reaching a fever pitch.

That is why, many say, recent weeks have seen activists use chains and pipes to tie themselves to the tires of buses that carry immigrants slated for deportation to court, block traffic on Capitol Hill and get arrested, surround Tucson police when they targeted two immigrants during a traffic stop, and chain themselves and block the entrance of a federal detention center.

More such actions, they vow, are coming.

“It’s absolutely out of frustration and impatience,” said Marisa Franco, campaign organizer for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, which helped coordinate some of the more provocative actions. “Immigrant communities who are losing 1,100 loved ones every day to deportation cannot wait for Congress to end its political games or for the President to rediscover his moral compass,” she added.

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The number mental health advocates want you to talk about

Untreated mental illness costs the U.S. $ 105 billion in lost productivity each year, according to Mental Health America, an advocacy group.

What’s more, the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare says people with untreated mental illness are four to six times more likely to be incarcerated and are more likely to hit emergency rooms for acute care.

So the folks at Mental Health America are encouraging people as part of Mental Health Month to complete a three-minute online screening.

“It’s a mental health checkup you can take online, make sure that you’re in good mental health,” Steve Vetzner, media relations director at Mental Health America tells me. “If there are any problems you can take it to your physician.”

From there, Vetzner says, a doctor will probably administer more tests.

The three-minute screening flags mood and anxiety disorders such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

“Since May is Mental Health Month, it’s the perfect time for people to get screened, get their score – and then share that information privately with their health care provider,” according to the Mental Health America website.

Here’s how it works. Users fill out a 27-item checklist. They can then email results of the screening to a physician, but it’s only meant to be a first step toward a real diagnosis.

The site is also encouraging users to let their social networks know: ” Everyone has a number.  #WhatsYourNumber.  It only takes three minutes to find out,” they ask on a Tumblr page. 

“The M3 is not designed to diagnose illness on its own. Rather, it is meant to elicit symptoms that may indicate a mood or anxiety disorder,” say the creators of the test, M3, on their website. “By providing parallel educational material for patients and their physicians the M3 encourages treatment compliance and long-range follow-up of progress.”

The screening is supposed to help primary care doctors play psychiatrist–or at least tease out some general mental health info on a patient. “So we want to provide them with a tool that’s going to sort of do a good-enough job of doing what a psychiatrist does,” says Dr. Gerald Hurowitz, chief medical officer of M3Clinician, maker of the screening, in a YouTube video.

Hurowitz goes on to say, “Yes it captures more cases, but it also more realistically recreates what a psychiatrist would do when they see a patient. And it makes the primary care doctor that much more effective.”

The screening is free online and as an app on mobile devices. There’s also a clinician version that doctors can use to monitor a patient’s progress during treatment.

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NRA, gun control advocates say fight far from over

HOUSTON (AP) — National Rifle Association leaders told members Saturday that the fight against gun control legislation is far from over, with battles yet to come in Congress and next year’s midterm elections, but they vowed that none in the organization will ever have to surrender their weapons.

Proponents of gun control also asserted that they are in their fight for the long haul and have not been disheartened by last month’s defeat of a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun sales.

The debate over gun control legislation has reached a fever pitch in the wake of December’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 first-graders and six educators were killed. The expanded background checks bill supported by President Barack Obama and other lawmakers in response to the Connecticut shooting failed to pass in the Senate.

During a fiery and defiant speech Saturday, Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, the public face of the NRA, said the “political and media elites” have tried to use Sandy Hook and other recent shootings “to blame us, to shame us, to compromise our freedom for their agenda.” He said the proposed bill “got the defeat that it deserved” and that the measure would do nothing to prevent the next mass shooting.

“We will never surrender our guns, never,” LaPierre told several thousand people during the organization’s annual member meeting, which is part of the yearly NRA convention being held this weekend in Houston. More than 70,000 NRA members are expected to attend the three-day convention, which began Friday. Acres of displays of rifles, pistols, swords and hunting gear could be found inside the convention hall.

James Porter, the incoming NRA president, said Obama’s gun control efforts have created a “political spontaneous combustion” that has prompted millions of Americans to become first-time gun owners and created a national outrage that will manifest itself in next year’s midterm elections.

“The Senate and House are up for grabs,” Porter said during Saturday’s meeting. “We can direct this massive energy of spontaneous combustion to regain the political high ground. We do that and Obama can be stopped.”

LaPierre said the NRA now has a record 5 million members, but he urged for increased membership and added that it “must be 10 million strong” in its battle against gun control.

Meanwhile, across the street from the convention, advocates of expanded background checks and other gun control measures vowed to continue their fight.

Kellye Bowman of the Houston chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a national grassroots effort promoting gun control that was started after the Sandy Hook shooting, said her organization was not discouraged by last month’s failure of the gun control bill. She said its defeat actually increased her group’s membership.

Bowman, who described herself as a fifth generation Texan who grew up shooting guns, said her group’s primary focus now is meeting with legislators and supporting those who agree with their efforts and using the ballot box to remove those that don’t.

“We can turn any mom into an activist. They need to start listening to us,” said Bowman, who was among more than 60 protesters who had gathered Saturday afternoon across the street from the convention.

Many of the protesters held up signs that read: “Texans For Smart Gun Regulations” and “90% Want A Background Check,” a reference to recent polls that have shown that up to 90 percent of Americans are in favor of expanded background checks.

Another of the protesters, Caleb Rogers, 33, a residential appraiser from Houston, said he doesn’t believe the NRA is unstoppable.

“I think their time will come when they have to listen to common sense and do what’s right for the country,” he said. “I think someday, maybe not today or tomorrow or the next decade, but someday we’ll get there, where there is a little common sense about what kinds of weapons we want on the streets.”

Gun control supporters have promised to keep pressing the issue and have made significant strides at the state level, including passing new restrictions on firearms in Colorado and Connecticut.

LaPierre implored lawmakers to direct their efforts at enforcing current federal gun laws and sending violent criminals who break them to prison, instead of focusing on new gun control legislation.

But LaPierre added the NRA is preparing for “round two” of the gun control fight.

“They are coming after us with a vengeance to destroy us and every ounce of our freedom,” he said. “It’s up to us, every single gun owner, every American to get to work right now and meet them head-on.”

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NRA, gun control advocates say fight far from over

HOUSTON (AP) — National Rifle Association leaders told members Saturday that the fight against gun control legislation is far from over, with battles yet to come in Congress and next year’s midterm elections, but they vowed that none in the organization will ever have to surrender their weapons.

Proponents of gun control also asserted that they are in their fight for the long haul and have not been disheartened by last month’s defeat of a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun sales.

The debate over gun control legislation has reached a fever pitch in the wake of December’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 first-graders and six educators were killed. The expanded background checks bill supported by President Barack Obama and other lawmakers in response to the Connecticut shooting failed to pass in the Senate.

During a fiery and defiant speech Saturday, Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, the public face of the NRA, said the “political and media elites” have tried to use Sandy Hook and other recent shootings “to blame us, to shame us, to compromise our freedom for their agenda.” He said the proposed bill “got the defeat that it deserved” and that the measure would do nothing to prevent the next mass shooting.

“We will never surrender our guns, never,” LaPierre told several thousand people during the organization’s annual member meeting, which is part of the yearly NRA convention being held this weekend in Houston. More than 70,000 NRA members are expected to attend the three-day convention, which began Friday. Acres of displays of rifles, pistols, swords and hunting gear could be found inside the convention hall.

James Porter, the incoming NRA president, said Obama’s gun control efforts have created a “political spontaneous combustion” that has prompted millions of Americans to become first-time gun owners and created a national outrage that will manifest itself in next year’s midterm elections.

“The Senate and House are up for grabs,” Porter said during Saturday’s meeting. “We can direct this massive energy of spontaneous combustion to regain the political high ground. We do that and Obama can be stopped.”

LaPierre said the NRA now has a record 5 million members, but he urged for increased membership and added that it “must be 10 million strong” in its battle against gun control.

Meanwhile, across the street from the convention, advocates of expanded background checks and other gun control measures vowed to continue their fight.

Kellye Bowman of the Houston chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a national grassroots effort promoting gun control that was started after the Sandy Hook shooting, said her organization was not discouraged by last month’s failure of the gun control bill. She said its defeat actually increased her group’s membership.

Bowman, who described herself as a fifth generation Texan who grew up shooting guns, said her group’s primary focus now is meeting with legislators and supporting those who agree with their efforts and using the ballot box to remove those that don’t.

“We can turn any mom into an activist. They need to start listening to us,” said Bowman, who was among more than 60 protesters who had gathered Saturday afternoon across the street from the convention.

Many of the protesters held up signs that read: “Texans For Smart Gun Regulations” and “90% Want A Background Check,” a reference to recent polls that have shown that up to 90 percent of Americans are in favor of expanded background checks.

Another of the protesters, Caleb Rogers, 33, a residential appraiser from Houston, said he doesn’t believe the NRA is unstoppable.

“I think their time will come when they have to listen to common sense and do what’s right for the country,” he said. “I think someday, maybe not today or tomorrow or the next decade, but someday we’ll get there, where there is a little common sense about what kinds of weapons we want on the streets.”

Gun control supporters have promised to keep pressing the issue and have made significant strides at the state level, including passing new restrictions on firearms in Colorado and Connecticut.

LaPierre implored lawmakers to direct their efforts at enforcing current federal gun laws and sending violent criminals who break them to prison, instead of focusing on new gun control legislation.

But LaPierre added the NRA is preparing for “round two” of the gun control fight.

“They are coming after us with a vengeance to destroy us and every ounce of our freedom,” he said. “It’s up to us, every single gun owner, every American to get to work right now and meet them head-on.”

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Follow Juan A. Lozano at http://www.twitter.com/juanlozano70 .

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