https://siouxcityjournal.com/other-voices-d-printable-guns-an-innovation-that-needs-to/article_a16e9aec-5241-5f08-b235-5f156c4d2e5f.html

If you believe that America’s gun laws are too lax, imagine living in an America with no firearms limits at all: no background checks, no mental health standards, no age restrictions, no serial numbers on guns, not even the basic last-resort option of metal detection. Nothing.

That nightmare scenario is at the core of the controversy over 3D printable guns. It’s a complex issue around a simple question: Do we want to make it so difficult to enforce restrictions on the manufacture and ownership of firearms as to render any restrictions meaningless? If the courts don’t immediately short-circuit this particular use of technology, Congress should.