this afternoon the house approved a measure renewing a 25-year-old prohibition against undetectable firearms. the chief intelligence correspondent kathryn heritage reports concerns remain that new technology could make getting a deadly weapon into a restricted area much easier. reporter: making a plastic gun that s lethal and fires like the real thing is no longer a fantasy for enthusiasts like cody wilson. wilson, a pioneer of 3d gun making says the emergence of new printer technology and the availability of resilient plastics mean the possibilities are endless. there ll be hybrid technologies and new material families which will enable people to make relatively different composite style weapons that look different and act differently and are much more reliable than today. reporter: the bureau of alcohol, twak questi alcohol,, tobacco and firearms the guns can only be detected using traditional screening methods like at
the guns but if we have the gun, it give us in law enforcement a little more ammunition to try to put a stop to those using this weapon unlawfully. when will this law be voted on? i hope soon, like within the next couple of weeks. i believe congress will do the right thing and renew this law. it s something we don t need. we don t need people making plastic guns in their homes. rob wheeler, former homicide detective, who knows what it s like to be on the streets. thanks so much. well, we report, you decide. they re already used to sniff out criminal activity in our airports and other public spaces. often they re better at it than humans. now there s a new push to use our trained police drawinogs to combat violence in our schools as an alternative to guns.
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more from our new york city newsroom. it s called canines for kids. a nonprofit program offering our nation s zoos and colleges trained canines at no cost to patrol highways and prevent violence like school shootings. the founder says doggings ares better alternative in classrooms. trained canines can detect the smell of explosives well before potential perpetrators get a chance to begin their violent sprees. i think that canines provide a softer gentler alternative to a gun. i m sure there s some teachers out there qualified to handle a gun. i think forcibly asking them to do so just puts those teachers in a bad position. christy says there s no need to be concerned with dog attacks or allergic re, an because kid get close to the dogs.
te lib terrorism. the same guy is in the process right now of making a plastic gun clip that can get through our metal detector systems. i m not sure where this guy is coming from. at the end of the day, we need to push back on this because it s going to get in the hands of the wrong people. a wanna be terrorist or an active shooter or somebody like that. somebody that may be mentally unstable. that s what we have to try to prevent. there s no need for plastic guns. they say when it was put on the internet the plans were downloaded 100,000 times. that mean there s 100,000 of these blue prints out there. absolutely, i think i d be kidding myself to say that they haven t tried to make these guns. not only here in the united states but over in the uk and other countries, we know for a fact some folks have tried to make these guns. they ve taken the blueprint off of the internet. once it s out there, it s out there and it s still available. at least we have the law. the law obviously