With the national ban on plastic guns set to expire in a matter of days, the House on Tuesday approved a 10-year extension of the ban while Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., pressed for a new provision that would directly target 3-D printed plastic guns.

First passed in 1988, the Undetectable Firearms Act banned guns that lacked sufficient metal content to set off metal detectors or be detected by standard airport imaging technology.

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