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## Video: TIME's 2013 Person of the Year: Pope Francis

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_Published 2013-12-11. TIME Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs and Deputy Managing Editor Radhika Jones reveal the Person of the Year and the influencers who shaped 2013._


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## Transcript

>> The gun fired here was not purchased, it was printed. Yes, printed from a 3D printer. It is new technology that is legal and could be for a while. Thanks to a loophole and an expiring 25 year old gun law, which today the House voted to extend.

>> A loophole can be closed down the line that is a preferred scenario to a no law at all.

>> At issue, a ban on guns that cannot be detected by metal screening machines like this plastic gun. The last time it passed, Congress intentionally wrote the law to expire after 10 years in order to update it as technology evolved. Then a gun you can print at home was considered science fiction. But now, up against the deadline, the ban will lapse this Monday. Lawmakers in both parties punted on making any updates. The legislation that the House passed doesn't address the fact that somebody gets in their house and print out a-- a 3- D gun.

>> Exactly. This law was enacted 25 years ago and technology has advanced to the point where people can make their own plastic guns. And this law does not prohibit that.

>> Some Democrats in the Senate say they'll try to close loopholes and expand the ban on undetectable firearms but they've got powerful familiar opposition, the National Rifle Association. Which said in a statement, " The NRA strongly opposes any expansion of the Undetectable Firearms Act ", including applying the UFA to magazines, gun parts or the development of new technologies. Lots of lawmakers, mostly Republicans, agree with the NRA.

>> We need to make certain that the American people are safe, at the same time, we need to respect and appreciate that the Second Amendment of the Constitution is sacrosanct.

>> Given Congressional deadlock on gun legislation even after last year's Sunday Hook massacre, gun control advocates are thankful Congress is at least on a path to extending the current ban on undetectable arms.

>> Allowing people to slip through metal detectors with guns to get on to airplanes, is not a position that I don't think politicians can take, particularly after 9 / 11.

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