1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protect Lives and Stop the Imminent Chaos Act or the PLASTIC Act . 2. Task force (a) Establishment The Attorney General shall establish a task force that includes the following: (1) The Secretary of Homeland Security. (2) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (3) The Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. (4) The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. (b) Duties The task force shall do the following: (1) Address national security and safety issues presented by the manufacturing of munitions through 3–D printing technology. (2) Address national security and safety issues involving 3–D printer manufacturers and suppliers of materials, component parts, and ancillary items, including composite materials used in 3–D printing applications. (3) Address the use and development of the technology to produce prohibited or unlawful items such as firearms, ammunition, component parts of firearms, or other materials that may be used to support or facilitate unlawful acts, including the smuggling of illicit or illegal materials which may include weapons, hazardous materials, and other materials that present a public hazard or risk. (4) Work with 3–D printer manufacturers and suppliers of materials and component parts on ways to protect the public from the misuse of 3–D printing technology. (5) Study and offer policy recommendations on the national security threat imposed by undetectable weapons, such as 3–D printed weapons that may not contain the requisite 3.7 ounces of metal necessary to set off metal detectors. (6) Study and offer policy recommendations on statutory and regulatory loopholes surrounding untraceable weapons such as weapons that become functional firearms but circumvent the manufacturers’ serial number requirement. (7) Address the current loophole allowing the serial number exemption for the so-called 80 percent receiver, , which is the central component that houses the firing mechanism of the