3D Printing restrictions and bans: Difference between revisions

'''3D Printing restrictions and bans''' are legal, technical, and policy limits that governments, platforms, and manufacturers place on how consumer 3D printers may be bought, modified, or used. The most far-reaching example is a New York law, enacted in May 2026, that will require every 3D printer sold in the state to carry ''"blocking technology"'' which checks each print file against a firearms blueprint detection algorithm before the machine will run the job.<ref name="bill" /> The Governor's office and the gun-safety group Everytown for Gun Safety described the measure as first-in-the-nation.<ref name="gov" /><ref name="everytown" /> The printer-sales requirement is not yet in force. It takes effect one year after state rules are written, those rules cannot begin until an expert working group reports, and a feasibility clause lets that group shelve the mandate if it finds the scanning technology does not work.<ref name="bill" /><ref name="bill-pdf" />