Originally Posted by
chollie
No one is going to print a gun that gets past the screeners (unless they are jacking their jaws with their co-workers or playing on their cellphones while they are supposed to be working and they miss it just like they miss real firearms).
It doesn't matter what the materials are: a 2-inch plastic toy gun, a sock monkey's tiny gun or a plastic replica (one side only) on a woman's purse were confiscated. You can't even take a kid's squirt gun through the checkpoint, and it would almost certainly get confiscated from a checked bag.
It's going to be interesting to see if the printers themselves are allowed through the checkpoint.
not too many flights are long enough that there would be enough time to print your own weapon while on board. So, they might only prohibit 3D printers on flights over 15 hours.