Maybe several generations of 3D printers down the road they would be decent weapon printers. Right now and in the near term they're unsuitable for printing weap

Maybe several generations of 3D printers down the road they would be decent weapon printers. Right now and in the near term they're unsuitable for printing weapons. If you're an insurgent you're better off making a zip gun out of office scraps to get yourself a better recently owned gun. Good insurgencies don't keep weapons at home. They stash them at drop points and pick them up when they need to use them. 3D printers have the same problems as weapons. If an occupying force finds out you've got a 3D printer they're going to confiscate it if you're lucky and jail/kill you if you're not. I'd also suggest that anymore insurgencies are more interested in IEDs than small arms. An insurgent doesn't need to be around when an IED goes off. An IED can do a lot more damage to even moderately armored vehicles than 3D printed or scratch built small arms.