Recently, Everytown for Gun Safety hosted a 3D Printed Firearms Summit in New York City with the goal being to “build cross-sector collaboration and chart actionable strategies to stem the tide of 3D-printed firearm (3DPF) related violence.” The gathering of gloom is seemingly a leftover from the Biden-Harris administration, which convened similar confabs of gun control absolutists. One positive note is that these kinds of anti-gun “summits” must now be funded with Everytown’s own money rather than by taxpayers through Biden’s defunct White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
Media hype ahead of the summit warned, “We’re at the start of a new public safety crisis and there is no time to waste,” and “3D-printed firearms are the new frontier in the fight against gun violence.” Everytown is apparently measuring this crisis by “recovery data from twenty U.S. cities submitted exclusively to Everytown” according to their Facebook post. Exclusive crime-related data given just to Everytown may raise its own kinds of red-flags to consider.
While 3D printing is a newer and developing technology, homemade firearms, or PMFs — privately made firearms — are not. Since the birth of our nation, citizens have enjoyed the right to create their own privately made firearms. A review of the basic facts on PMFs would have made for a helpful presentation at the summit.
As far as federal law is concerned, individuals can legally make firearms for personal use without a license as long as the person isn’t prohibited from possession of firearms, the firearm is detectable, and the firearm isn’t made or sold for profit. Firearms and related items that are illegal under federal and/or state law, however, are still illegal. Items that are already regulated by federal and/or state law are still regulated.
Firearms continue to be heavily regulated regardless of how they are manufactured. Articles referring to 3D printed firearms are a mishmash of terms interchanging 3D printed firearms with “ghost guns” and undetectable firearms. The National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968, the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988, to name just a few, continue to govern firearms produced by 3D printing.
The mere absence of a serial number does not make a gun undetectable and if 3D printers were capable of producing undetectable firearms, such guns would already be illegal to manufacture and possess anywhere in the country.
As has been the typical route of a gun control “solution” in search of a problem, the solutions to cure a generally legal activity are concerning for law-abiding citizens on a larger scale as they hint at the continuation of not only censorship among the Second Amendment community, but expansion of the surveillance state of gun owners and the suppression of broadly applicable technology.
In New York, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has pressed various printer manufacturers and online platforms to take down gun designs as well as petitioned YouTube to censor videos with reference to the legal 3D printing of firearm parts. Additionally, there have been calls on other companies to install firmware in their printers that would detect the shapes of common gun parts and block their printing.
If programs can be created to block printing, can’t they also be created to register the user or report the attempt? There should be serious concern with enlisting technology companies for gun control efforts and their assistance in the creation of a surveillance state for gun owners. Additionally, as NRA-ILA previously reported, there have even been efforts to require background checks for the purchase of 3D Printers.
Unfortunately, more surveillance efforts are being proposed, including the Gun Hardware Oversight and Shipment Act (GHOST Act) introduced earlier this year by U.S Rep. Jill Tokuda of Hawaii, which would empower the government to track purchases of gun parts, including barrels, slides, and bolt carriers. While that bill has stalled for now, it shows the direction in which efforts to suppress private firearm manufacturing is headed.
The 3D-printed firearm world is evolving. However, if criminals, by definition, aren’t following existing laws on guns and violence, it’s difficult to see a public safety solution in layering still more regulations on those legally engaged in 3D printing. More concerning may be asking authorities or private companies to control and censor information made available to people on what they’re legally allowed to create in their own homes. To cite another example, many illegal drugs start out as plants. But that doesn’t make horticulture a presumptively suspect activity or justify censoring content on gardening.
As the Everytown summit demonstrates, gun control activists are perfectly willing to demolish other rights in their attempts to achieve not just a gun-free America, but an America where every precursor to a gun is tightly controlled. 3D printers enable citizens to create and fabricate for a variety of purposes. And, yes, this includes the lawful construction of firearms for one’s own use, a practice as old as the Republic itself.
How much innovation and freedom are firearm prohibition advocates willing to sacrifice for their own illusions of safety? Judging by the latest panic over 3D printing, you’d have to wonder if the printing press itself would be safe.
The other danger not mentioned:
Once these groups and democrats can determine something that gives them control over the 2A, its only a short jump from using the same tactic with different wording for the rest of the constitutional rights and then its easy to abolish them just by controlling them by denying them at will. So yes, the printing press and speech would be next after that if they determined its ‘common sense’ that the public be ‘protected’ from an ‘epidemic’ of ‘misinformation’ ’cause they say so. Then after the first amendment it would be the 4th and the public would need to be ‘protected’ against an ‘epidemic’ of ‘radicals’ so lets just enter at will.
This also why the founders included the 2A, to protect constitutional rights from such tyranny. If the 2A falls, so will the rest over time.
This Self-Defense Mistake Is Fatal – And These Numbers Prove It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kusYLaQQFE8
MASSIVE BREAKING 2A NEWS: DOJ POST OFFICE GUN BAN FIGHT HEATS UP.
In FPC v. Bondi, the federal district court entered an injunction barring the federal government from enforcing its post office firearms ban. DOJ has filed a motion for clarification on the scope of the injunction. Mark Smith, Four Boxes Diner, discusses.
video for above > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYBB182HMDA
ATTENTION: Government Shutdown Crime Surge Incoming! Prepare Now!
As the [democrat created] government shutdown drags on, millions of Americans risk losing access to their EBT and SNAP benefits — and that could mean more thefts, larcenies, and burglaries as desperation spreads. In this video, Jared from Guns & Gadgets breaks down the real-world risks, explains why crime may spike, and offers practical steps you can take to protect yourself, your loved ones, and your home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tcblWtmWVo
[note: Why of course the democrats would create or cause something that could cause more crime. Did ya really expect anything else from democrats other than more fraud and waste and abuse and hate and racism and crime? Basically, the root of this is: The democrats are still refusing to vote to re-open government with a clean resolution bill, the same clean resolution bill they voted for during the Biden admin and around 10 times prior in past admins, and the reason is still the same reason they voted in such a manner to shut down the government this time and that reason is they want the government to fund free illegal alien health care through medicaid with trillions of $$$ of tax payer money which actually is illegal to do because its actually illegal to fund medicaid for illegal aliens because its actually illegal for them to have medicaid. So the democrats want to violate the law, no surprise there, to fund free health care for illegal aliens that are in the country illegally because of the democrats, by basically stealing your tax payer dollars because it would go for an illegal act – and are PO’d because the republicans will not let them do it, so decided to hold the country hostage by shutting down the government as a means to force the republicans to violate the law to give the democrats what they want.]
New Report Tracks $200 Million Spent On Illegal Immigrant Health Care.
” ‘When elected officials argue that taxpayer dollars aren’t going to illegal immigrants that just isn’t true,’ Open The Books CEO John Hart said.
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The day before the start of the latest shutdown drama, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared that Republicans were ‘lying’ about the Democrats’ hostage demands to turn the lights back on. No, the left’s spending plan would not pay for health care for illegal immigrants, the New York Democrat said. Doing so would require a change in federal law that bars such a thing, echoed Jeffries’ pals in corporate media.
‘Nowhere have Democrats suggested that we’re interested in changing federal law,’ he told NBC News for a story under the misleading headline, ‘GOP misleads with claim that Democrats shut down to give health care to ‘illegal immigrants.’ The story, like a lot of reporting from the corporate media, hasn’t aged well.
Hakeem and his team are lying to the American people. The truth is, hundreds of millions of dollars in direct and indirect spending is going to pick up the tab for the explosion of illegal aliens in this country.
An investigation by the nonprofit government watchdog Open The Books finds illegal immigrants have benefited from nearly $200 million in direct federal health care-related grants since fiscal year 2021.
That total doesn’t include indirect taxpayer funding for illegal aliens via Medicaid, estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to be around $27 billion from FY 2017-2023, according to a new Open The Books report exclusively provided to The Federalist. And then there’s the estimated $70 billion annually in education spending for ‘undocumented migrants’ and their children.
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[note: The democrats have been doing this for years, intentional violation of law. And now they continue to lie about when they get caught.]
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/30/exclusive-new-report-tracks-200-million-spent-on-illegal-immigrant-health-care/
[Democrats in] Red States Prepare for Voting Rights Act to Be Gutted.
“Democrats in the South brace for annihilation as the Supreme Court considers arguments involving a key provision in the Voting Rights Act regarding a case involving redistricting in Louisiana. If the VRA is gutted, it’s not inconceivable to suggest that the GOP is going to run the table on House races for the foreseeable future. It’s why Democrats are sweating through their sheets right now, and Republicans are at the ready whenever the decision drops
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/10/30/red-states-prepare-for-vra-to-be-gutted-n2665613
Hey Biden… your White House cocaine debacle was ‘amateurish’: Democrat Governor Maura Healey’s aide arrested after 8 KILOS of cocaine delivered to Massachusetts state office.
https://thepostmillennial.com/maura-healeys-aide-arrested-after-8-kilos-of-cocaine-delivered-to-massachusetts-state-office?utm_campaign=64470