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On the recordJuly 31, 2018
the Senator is basing that on First Amendment rights. There are many limits on our First Amendment rights of speech. You cannot say ``fire'' in a crowded theater. Why in the world would you assert First Amendment rights to publish instructions to manufacture a plastic gun that someone can take through a metal detector, into a crowded theater, and start shooting in that theater-- instead of shouting ``fire,'' which is clearly an understood limitation upon our First Amendment rights of speech. It is inexplicable that the administration is allowing this to go into effect at midnight tonight. It is dangerous. In fact, the President this morning tweeted that allowing these blueprints to go online--the President tweeted: ``It doesn't seem to make sense.'' I would say amen to that, Mr. President, but it is your administration that has allowed this to happen because after years of winning this issue in courts at every stage of litigation, the administration has surrendered to the crazed demands of a self- described anarchist who is going to put this on the internet. He wants to sow chaos--he said so--in our country and across the world by making these blueprints widely available. We can make this impossible if, No. 1, the President will do it. He can stop it before midnight, and the clock is ticking. We are only talking less than 9 hours from now because 3D-printed guns, made of plastic or resin, can't be detected by metal detectors.…
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Bill Nelson
Democratic · Florida

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