Abstract

New technologies can bring danger as well as miracles. Unless effective action is taken soon by pediatricians, parents, and legislators a new and chilling danger to children will appear in the marketplace and in the environment. The danger is plastic handguns, and the time to act to stop it is now. 1 The danger : A company, Byron9s, Inc., has developed the technology to produce and market handguns made almost entirely of plastic. In testimony before Congress, company spokesmen and gun advocates have touted the virtues of plastic guns: they are light, easily cleaned (indeed dishwasher safe), and they float.

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