The furor over 3D printed guns highlighted a curious law: plastic guns (e.g., produceable by traditional manufacturing before 3D printing) have long been forbidden because they are impossible to trace: shoot once and discard.
If plastic guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have plastic guns. Is there a black market for them? It would seem untraceable guns would be in high demand for crimes. Being plastic, they are cheap and easy to make. Smuggling them does not seem too difficult: disguise them as toys.
Are plastic guns widely used in jurisdictions which do not forbid them, or otherwise have weak gun control? Maybe jurisdictions with weak gun control also have weak forensic tracing of bullets to guns, negating demand for untraceable guns.
Feature them in crime fiction.
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