PRINT&GO is a 3D printer management platform based in Lleida, Spain, that claims over 420,000 users. They claim their module, 3D GUN’T, scans print files against a weapons database and blocks jobs it flags as firearm components.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has been pushing 3D printer manufacturers to bundle this software into their machines…
Not as an option, but as a requirement (press release & PDF).
It’s not just the DA. New York State has proposed legislation that would require 3D printers to detect and refuse to print gun parts. We covered the bill and Michael Weinberg’s technical takedown of why this approach is fundamentally broken… printers lack the processing power, the detection is wildly unreliable, most machines aren’t even internet-connected, and the open-source firmware that runs them is trivially modifiable. PRINT&GO’s 3D GUN’T is exactly the kind of product that gets waved around as a solution in these legislative pushes.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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“Any User Who Has a 3D Printer Would Have This Software Installed” … PRINT&GO’s Plan to Become the DRM of 3D Printing
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