Guns are extremely expensive, and I own many. I have many friends who wish they could own guns but cannot afford them, and thus live alone without a proper means of self defense.

I don't let anyone fire anything I own without an intro safety course and firing practice with a laser bullet, so I don't intend to throw free guns into crowds, but I do know that there is a large group of responsible people who go unarmed for the sole reason that the price of guns is very, very high.

At $500/pop, I can't afford to be charitable. At $50-100, these become birthday gifts.

As another point of reference, I bought many "high capacity magazines" in 2010 for range practice. In 2012 I sold all of them for 4x what I bought them for on gunbroker because of the gun ban scare.

The economics behind gun parts is wacky, and home production would be a radical shift in technology to finally send the cost downward.

Of course gun manufacturers would lobby against any home printing. How could they sell $2400 rifles when a decent rifle would only cost a tenth of that to build at home?