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Yes, a 3D printer is perfect for this sort of stuff although the main use for plastic printed parts will be to provide a prototype for a metal part or other medium that can then be made through CNC milling or casting.
Ever looked into 3D Laser scanners? Probably pretty expensive piece of equipment, but it uses lasers to plot millions of points over an object and creates a CAD file from these millions of points. For oddly shaped or textured parts, it takes hours/days of programing and does it in seconds.
With a good enough printer and scanner you could disassemble a gun, scan it, print the parts, and have yourself a plastic replica of the gun.
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