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How would a 3d printer know if its a firearm?
Next up normal ink printers are not allowed to print bad jokes
Two ways. The first is to dramatically increase the price due to added computing power because the device would make the determination itself with a matching database. This is probably not realistic.
The second way would be an always Internet connected device that checks your prints against an online database. This would be more practical and companies would probably love the idea of being able to spy on whatever you print.
Fortunately for the second scenario, I think avoiding that might be as easy as going into blender, adding a pointless protrusion or two and then renaming the file
People looking to ban things don't actually care if there is a work around, as long as they feel good getting it banned.