BARTLETT, TENNESSEE — People most commonly use their computer to print pictures, letters, and resumes, but the technology is coming where someone can print a fully functioning gun.

It has many concerned on who could get their hands on one, but some local 3-D printing hobbyists say it’s not that simple.

Those with the MidSouth Makers hand-build their own three-dimensional printers and they cost around $1,000 a piece, but a printer capable of recreating a fully, functioning gun, they claim, would cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Right now, the group is capable of printing things like whistles, computer cases, tablet stands, even more 3-D printers.

‘The big movement is to try and model a whole lot of things,