I feel the same way towards the 3D printed gun community that I do when I read comments from New Yorkers/Californians hating on “flyover country”. I could spend a while proving to them that they are bigoted morons and that nothing they assume about the heartland is true, but if I succeed in convincing them, then they would be willing to move and they would destroy something amazing.
Same thing for the 3D printed gun community. They are retards who think that 3D printing a grip and using OEM parts for everything else is the same as creating a gun from scratch. If guns are banned, all parts will be banned as well (just like they are in many European countries) which makes almost all of the “3D printed gun” designs useless. The ATF recently tried to make a rule requiring non-receiver parts to be serialized, so this isn’t hypothetical. Their efforts would be better spent learning how to operate a mill and lathe, but I’ve come to realize that just like with the Californians, there is no benefit to arguing. Right now, they have the grabbers all focused on the 3D printers, which are almost useless for building a functional firearm from scratch (the FGC-9 works but is a piece of crap). If I managed to convince them to learn machining, then they would draw the attention of our enemies towards something that is actually useful.