Almost anything can be manufactured, in a range of materials, using 3D printing. As has previously been reported on these pages this includes gun parts.
One of the barriers to this happening is that 3D printers are (for the time being) expensive. One potential way of overcoming this barrier, is to have gun parts printed by a company which provides 3D printing as a commercial service. Cnet did an abbreviated survey of the attitudes of some companies in the 3D printing business:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57508385-76/which-3d-printing-service-will-make-you-a-gun/
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