D.C. Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) is paying attention to events back in his native state of Texas. Wells today introduced a bill that would outlaw the production of firearms manufactured by 3-D printers, increasingly common devices that can construct machine parts designed on computers.

Wells’ bill comes a few days after a University of Texas law student successfully fired a bullet from a handgun created on a 3-D printer. Cody Wilson’s homemade pistol, which he named “The Liberator,” was created on an $8,000 printer he purchased over eBay.

The District’s gun laws, which are among the strictest in the United States, permit residents to own—but not carry outside their homes—a wide variety of handguns, rifles, and shotguns that are officially listed by the Metropolitan Police Department. But 3-D-printed guns are of an entirely different sort.

“The end product is a cheap, functional and undetectable weapon that can be produced with nothing more than a home computer and 3-D printer,” Wells said in a news release. Wilson’s gun contains a few metal pieces, but most of it, including the firing mechanism, is made from hard plastic emitted by his printer. Wilson also dubbed his pistol a “wiki weapon,” in that many 3-D printer users share their designs with the rest of the Internet.

“An undetectable firearm constructed on your computer may sound like science fiction, but unfortunately, it’s already here and our laws have never contemplated this scenario,” Wells said. His bill, the “Undetectable Firearms Act of 2013,” would prohibit District residents with 3-D printers from following Wilson’s example.

The federal government has a similar law on the books, passed in 1988, though it is due to expire at the end of 2013. Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) has called for renewing the measure.