Narrative Warfare: Making It Impossible To Enforce

This is a big deal.

The FGC9 is a 3D printed firearm that uses zero 'gun parts' in its construction - making it a gun anyone, even in Europe, could acquire the parts to build.

This is at least 15 years ahead of US gun regulation efforts - and undoes those already in place across the world. pic.twitter.com/q45Uupglwu

— Trollworks™️ by Ivan (@Ivan_Is_Back) February 3, 2020

I'd been keeping an eye on this for a while. The dream is to develop 3D printing and home machining (e.g. Ghost Gunner) to make gun control impossible at the technical level, rendering regulation moot. The follow-ups later in this Twitter thread shows that the folks behind this project are aware of other vulnerabilities; ammunition creation is said to be in the works, and I know that making powder and primers will be the wall for such a project.

This may seem odd to you. I remind you that "making firearms out of home workshops" has been a thing for generations, worldwide, and the directions for WW2-era firearms meant to be done like this are available online- and some are still very effective, such as the M3 "Grease Gun". Ammunition can also be made at home; "Kyber Pass Copies" including making ammo from scratch. The issue has always been build-quality; this project aims to eliminate that issue, and so far they're on track.

For we in the United States, especially outside of anti-gun states, this seems moot. For other countries, this is going to be taken as the threat to state power that it is; expect all sorts of attempts to ban or restrict accordingly. It's already been attempted here, without success. However, once this project gets combined with others such as the scene regarding making printers that can print their own replacement parts (and thus replicate themselves), we'll soon see it become technically impossible to enforce bans.

And given scenarios where state or criminal actors move opportunistically to oppress a nation, being able to gin up the tools to resist with force at home is very attractive.