This is how you’re supposed to respond to awful management directives. Follow it to the T and when it fails tell them why.
If you ‘do the right thing’ and create work-arounds and hidden fixes to problems management created, they will think their decisions were absolutely justified and were the correct course of action. They’ll pat themselves on the back, give you an attaboy, and move into the next disaster with misplaced confidence, all without ever seeing all the cracks in their plan that you silently filled as you carried the weight on your back.
3d printed guns aren’t 100% plastic. In fact the only part that’s printed is the only part actually considered a firearm in the US, the receiver. You know, that gun shaped object that Glock themselves make out of plastic. All other parts, barrel, slide, magazine, springs, trigger, etc are all purchased without any controls or background checks and then assembled into a firearm on the 3d printed receiver.
They work amazingly well for what they are and they hold up for many many rounds.