I’ve been printing for a little over a decade. Not only have I built my own printers but I’ve tweaked and modified them so many times over the years that with the right settings my Bowden feed fdm can compete on print quality with commercially produced resin printers. All of this is a long winded way of saying I know what I’m taking about.

Trying to prevent 3d printed guns is a fools erand. The machines can be built out of two broken printers and a dream. The software can be ran on a toaster and 90% of it is coded by wackos bootlegging 40k merch. The material can be sourced from weed wackers and soda bottles, you can feed paracord into it and get a nylon print with the right settings. Any AI you use to detect a part will invariably fail to detect the billion ways you can tweak a model before slicing it, if not false read every nerf mod and fidget until the the aforementioned wackos simply patch it out.

It would, with no hyperbole, be easier to make a society where 3d printed guns aren’t of interest than it would be to stop them from being made.

Lastly, if anyone wants links to 3d printed guns or PDFs for models that can made with $70 and a shitty welder. Hit me up.