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This is an attack on my property rights as a 3D printer owner, never mind the Second Amendment (or First Amendment, for that matter). In practice, this would essentially require all 3D printers to have closed-source, DRM'd firmware and almost certainly spy on you. It is way, way more authoritarian than people only thinking in terms of "gun violence" likely give it credit for.
Also never mind that "is this 3D model a gun?" is an absurd thing to have a computer try to figure out, even with the recent advances in machine learning. That goes double if you care about things like distinguishing a gun that would actually shoot bullets from a water gun, nerf gun, or other vaguely gun-shaped nonfunctional object (which any frothing-at-the-mouth jackbooted thug who would stoop to supporting this clearly wouldn't). And even then, guns are fundamentally simple devices made from multiple parts -- is it going to SWAT you for printing a cylinder because it might be a gun barrel?!
This proposal is dangerously insane in every conceivable way, and probably several other ways I haven't even thought of yet.
If it uses the police algorithm to determine gunness it'll just refuse to print anything.
If it just stops things that "look" like a gun then printable guns will evolve in shape to conceal their properties making them potentially even more dangerous because people won't be able to recognize them for what they are.
Where will this logic live? On the main board? What if I swap my main board out for some random SBC with code I wrote myself? On the motor driver? I don't pass G-Code to the motor driver you really gonna inspect the momentary electric pulses for a series of motors to determine if the result is vaguely gun shaped? What if I print in parts?
Considering the massive modding community around Nerf guns in 3D printing circles I wouldn't be surprised if any of the safety monitoring for guns goes off and potentially reports people for fucking with toy guns
Anyone who comes up with a proposal like this is declaring to the world that they are a fundamentally stupid and evil person. Make note.