They use the word "Criminal" because to them, a criminal is someone who does not want to be controlled. They're not talking about burglars, murderers, terrorists, or other maliciously dangerous people. They're talking about innocent people who want to be defensively armed. That makes you a "criminal" because they're using the word with their definition, not the real definition. It's an overton window shift, cultural gaslighting, astroturfing, whatever you want to call it, but they're trying to replace the common dialect with their own cherrypicked version. Classic Orwellian techniques.
they serve their purpose for them though: propaganda to keep the people that already have a negative bias of guns scared and to minimize potential support of 2A rights.
@@PatrickRatman That may be a good point. It's a British publication right? I can't say I have a deep understanding of their culture or any exposure to the types of propaganda they may be exposed to regularly. In the US however, even people who want gun reform and aren't completely settled on a full ban, I would think should be able to see through it.
I find it very funny how the article refers to him by "Jacob D". They probably didn't want to use his Kurdish last name, or mention he comes from a Kurdish refugee family because it doesn't fit the "gun printers are neo-nazis" angle they are trying to go for.
I'm diggin the broadening of scope of your videos. I still primarily love your content based on physical properties of of different plastics - but it's all good man. Love it!
It would be nice if they covered Burma where freedom fighters are using the FGC-9 to fight the military Junta that took over democratically elected government.
In all fairness, it's the Daily Mail. They're basically the most boomer "news outlet" in the UK and aren't really going to do anything more than promote the same bullshit that old British Tories like.
Hey now, they’re busy making innumerable false claims about 3d printing and the 3d2a community. We can’t have any positivity in the article about people using this to fight against tyrants.
I still haven't figured out if these people are truly scared or if it's just propaganda to try and scare the masses. I've only been scared a handful of times in my life and a gun has never been involved. To be honest, it's quite the opposite when a gun is involved. It's a great equalizer and wether it's in my hands or the hands of a loved one, I know we stand a better chance of surviving any situation that could arise when we're armed.
I’ve been on the receiving end of a random group ambush, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, had a gun to my head and front teeth broken by a pistol whip. Honestly, it’s not scary at all in the moment, just pure adrenaline. The scary part is afterwards when you realize how easily your life could have just ended.
@MikeJones-mf2rt I've had to shoot an attacker before in self-defense, something I always emphasize is basically exactly what you said about feeling nothing until the adrenaline wears off. That's why I find it a bit silly when I hear people questioning if they could really kill someone if they had to. In the heat of the moment, you wind up acting faster than you can really process, when your focused on surviving there just isn't time to really feel fear/anger/hesitation/etc... You wind up having to sort that all out afterwards, once you're safe.
What gets me is these articles say you can make an entire gun from 3d printing, not mentioning the fact that you still need metal piping for a barrel, and you can’t 3d print that. You can’t make an entire gun from just a 3d printer. You still need quite a bit of materials
On top of that they later go on to say that you need a metal barrel, firing pin and other parts. This article trips over itself more than once and I'm not sure if it's hilarious or terrifying.
Actually, it's possible to 3d print all the parts, but it's not economical for regular folks. Laser sintered additive manufacturing machines can 3d print steel, 17-4PH, and other metals, but they cost a bundle of bucks (multiple $100k). Some 3d print company did a one off print of a 1911 frame, slide, barrel and all the other parts.
He was using a Luty SMG (made of metal not plastic) they found a printed (unused in the attack) reciever in his home. No 3D printed firearms were used in the German shooting as far as I could tell. Obviously that's not how the media spun the story.
The UK, (where I live) has some of the strictest gun laws in the world....yet gun crime in inner cities is rampant, as is knife and machete attacks. It's just 'Normal' now to hear of people being hacked to death or shot in broad daylight in a town or city ?? Back in the 1960s when it was quite easy to get a gun..(You didn't need a licence or background check to own a shotgun) , gun crime was quite rare in the UK !!
"Blueprints" sounds more sinister than "models/meshes." Blueprints refer to something very intentionally drawn out, accounting for every detail. In this context, they are trying to make it sound like something very intentionally evil in its creation and proliferation. Nevermind the fact that it carries no intention, which is very much the same for gun ownership.
That black derringer is called the repringer pepper box. Calibered at .22lr with stainless barrel liners. I’ve made one in pla plus with resin grips and it’s pretty good you can get it in the defcad reprocitory
I think they're still mad that they were BTFO'd during the American Revolution so this is their way of trying to get revenge and attack the Constitution or something
you can find blueprints/schematics to firearms, tanks, jets, rockets, cannons, catapults etc. at a public library using the card catalog and remembering the dewey decimal system.
Hey Hoffman, as a Brit the DailyMail and the British people in general hate guns with a passion, I cannot describe how depressing it is being a 2A enthusiast how much my people hate guns, hate self-defence and hate independence from the Government and Dole. Basically if you're American bully Brits into getting guns
I understand how a media organization with an agenda can hate guns, but I just don't get how people can be that way. Especially in a country with such a rich background. Sad.
It's a multifaceted thing to break down, you could blame it on Dunblane, the general lack of exposure to guns in general irl outside of sensationalist news like this, that and our gun groups are vangaurdists who hate new people coming into shooting, even worse some Clay shooters I speak to *actively* fight to get guns banned and dissuade new people from getting SGCs (Shotgun Licenses) If you're ever invited to the spook cast I'll see if I can slip in because it's fascinating honestly.
@@legomovieman2 Jesus, no wonder you are getting taken over. I saw that the 3 biggest cities in Britain are all majority foreigner. Minority white British. That's scary.
I live in England, if I want a gun I can walk down my street and talk to a guy called Lazlow, he usually does drugs but he's been known to dabble in soviet era firearms.
Damn they got Master Chief over there running the streets of London apparently lmao. That fuckin 3d printed Magnum prop stock photo killed me. "Cortana what is a chav?!"
Excellent breakdown Mr Hoffman, thoroughly enjoyed your perspective. My favorite was probably the "high internet bandwidth", oh yeah, the 20 MB file on a USB stick you download 1 time for as many machines and uses as you could want, yeah that's a lot, but video games with day 1 patches are practically nothing... LOL!
Excellent commentary Tim. This author is obviously delusional with no sense of who is actually 3D print guns. It's a huge community that enjoys doing it and wishes no harm on any fellow human outside of defending ourselves from those who wish to do harm to us or other innocent people.
It’s awesome to see young men and women stand for freedom and carry the torch passed down through 247 years of history. Keep it up and keep the faith and thank you for being great Americans!! 🎆🎇
13:52 They make the joke that Americans will use anything but the metric system (two fridges in a road come to mind) and yet he says a microwave when he could just use the metric system there... I mean saying "about half a meter cubed" would work just as well.. Or as Hoffman says... A darn picture... He has access to a stock library
The bit they forgot to mention is that it's extremely difficult to make a 3D printed gun outside the US, because in the US only the receiver/frame is regulated as a firearm. Most other countries regulate ALL of the parts.
Most other countries regulate "pressure bearing components" like the barrel, bolt, etc... Though Luty proved you can make an open bolt SMG pretty easily with no standard gun parts, and that was decades ago.
@@dark2023-1lovesoni With the advent of DIY EDM machines using 3D printer and laser engraver parts, that's even easier. Funny, it's suspected, although not confirmed, that FX Airguns is using EDM to make their barrels. A very high degree of accuracy is possible, with the part never being in contact with tooling.
Thank you for making these videos. I have subscribed and looking forward to seeing more of your content. Incidentally in Australia they have gone way past gun control and outlawed body armour to the average public.
This freedom loving gun enthusiast thanks you for what you do. Keep it up! You should consider partnering with Warrior Poet Society. You share common goals, but you have a different approach through dispensing 3d printed freedom.
Great video mate. Also a small note on the synagogue shooting, that was not a 3d printed gun at all. It was just a super old lutty design that had been around for years.
I'm not a gun person. I don't own a gun. Chances are, I'll never own one. I like guitars and I own several 3D printers. So I 3D print guitar stuff and I've 3D printed a guitar as well. I already own a guitar and a 3D printed guitar is cool for me. People that will most likely 3D print guns are gun people who already own guns and love guns and will probably think 3D printed guns are cool. This makes sense to me. A gun amateur will probably never 3d print a gun. If they do, they will mostly likely hurt themselves before other people. As for criminals, well criminals will be criminals and will probably resort to more reliable and "easier" to procure weapons. For that small intersection of criminals who actually love guns as a hobby and are interested in 3D printing, well they will already have guns anyway so what does it matter?
Taking Daily Mail logic to the extreme the components of a forge should be banned because a "criminal" or "extremist" could make a knife blade over 1 inch (25mm) long in their garage....
We really appreciate everything you're doing! Very good and measured response to the article. Here's the thing I really wonder about... In the UK are they able to purchase the other necessary parts to actually produce one of these firearms? I mean are they able to just pop onto Palmetto state Armory and buy an LPK, bolt carrier, and upper? Are they able to buy ammunition for said gun? I somewhat have my doubts. Also can they just pop down to Walmart and pick up a box of 5.56? I dunno. I have a limey friend.... I think I will ask him. Will let you know. Thanks again!! Ps..... This is also engineering fun stuff.... It's not for nefarious purposes.... They just don't get it. 🙄
No they cant, the UK controls basically any pressure bearing component so bolts, barrels and the like I cant speak specifically to the UK but in other European countries you can buy a full auto m16 lower as it is just a firearm component and not controlled as a firearm unlike in the US. Similar to how a "full auto" bolt carrier would be here.
@@josephvanas6352 Lol, migrates to UK, buys "parts", goes to US with good parts (or vice versa). Since they are totally backwards, I'm sure no trades or exchanges of parts have ever occurred.
The UK has a bit of its own history of homemade firearms, so it makes perfect sense that the Daily Mail would run an article like this. They're almost always the voice of the establishment.
Keep spreading the faith my man. Don't stop until there is a 3d printed gun in every home across the globe ;) you know if you wore shoes they wouldn't think you so crazy right? cause that is just nuts my boy lol
I've some Outer Inlaws there in Bournemouth/Poole Englalaand. Everytime Im visiting there or trapesing the European mainland, I tend to go out drinking nightly for some odd reason? (Although I pretty much never drink @ home here in the states, can go a year w/o one beer, or sip of sometimes)...I call it the 'Euro-Effect'.... -Its so funny when chatting up Brit lads in the bars, 96% of the time the 2nd question outtve their mouths after name-O's being: "Sooooo, Do you own any gons?" The look on the faces when I respond, "What Kind?"..."What Type"....& "Oh, Not Really All That Many" ('Not That Many' being a subjective, or relative term to us here) Q: "Do You Own Any AR15's?"....... A: "Yeah, Around 10+ with full component parts to construct two more full ones, allsortsa barrel lengths, rifles, carbines pistolas, six+ 5.56 cal, two 5.45x39 varieties & a few odd 7.62x51 AR10 308's" (Coming from a guy whom used to make fun of people that owned say more than three 5.56 ARs...OOPS!..HA!) Q: "!?-MAKE GONS AT HOME-?!".... A: "Yup, right 'ere in the 'relative safety' of my own bedroom, or nearby Art n' Ammo Manufactorum Alembic Chamber" ~STRANGE what our 'Normalcy Biases" consist of form nation to nation, even state to state eh? (-GREAT WERK(S) Mr. Hoffman, Greets from all zee WhidBillies from Whidbey Island, WA;)
print shoot repeat? come on that guy is a hk nerd the news need to stop calling him a criminal he only prints pink guns with a fluffy ball keychains 🤣🤣🤣
Thinking of starting a business selling ender 3s with files already sliced on the sd card along with a calibration cube and documentation of how to calibrate and build that particular gun. The consumer doesn’t have to download anything and stay anonymous
Hey hoff know this may be late but why don’t you board swap your printer to get quieter steps when the motors are run? If that’s a separate shop that’s further away from where you spend most of your time I understand. If you do boardswap, you have the ability to nick pick your firmware to enable a myriad of options that weren’t accessible before.
I am a Dane, and I can print my own gun, as long as I have permits to own a gun, and permits for buying and assembling parts to fabricate a gun from scratch, but it is just as easy to get, as a permit to buy one, ready made, to get. and all I have to do, is, register it with the government as soon as it is built. that's all. Any UK citizen would be able to do the same, and the printed frame would be just as "Illegal", as one, ready made, bought in a sporting goods store, so they are even lying about the legality part, in the beginning...
I love it how at the end they say that actual criminals use regular weapons😂Here in England you'd have to get stuff like slide,trigger group,barrel,magazine and ammo illegally,so people will pay that bit extra to buy an actual factory made gun. The old bill will nick you for doing both,so no point in taking the risk things don't go bang when they need them to.ThankQ.TkEZ>UK
Great vid, you should post more reaction stuff. but btw it's not a crack on the plastikov. The v3 has a wider section in the rear with a steep ridge that's hard to see from that angle.
I am almost completely certain that attack was done with a Luty-style steel tube sub-machine gun. The cause of the jam was the breakage of the homemade extractor resulting in the ditching of the weapon for a slam fire shotgun.
I love how they expect criminals to go off and buy 3d printed guns with all the associated risks rather than just buying the 200$ printer and making the gun themselves. Its a total stretch. If the 3d printed gun was the focus here they would just print it because its less risky. Otherwise they're just going to keep getting normal guns illegally like they've always done without any need for 3d printing.
A people practiced in the responsible possession of firearms are able to defend themselves, their families, and their communities. As such, they consider themselves to be most responsible for that protection, and possess a feeling of community and security that comes from being capable of protecting themselves. This is known as the spirit of independence. It is product of self-reliance. Those peoples who are denied the Right have none of these feelings. They are dependent on police, on military, on a strong-man style of protection, they are dependent on the government for every form of aid and protection. Like abused and wounded animals they become suspicious and distrustful of others, insure in their powerlessness. They are dependent on government for all security, and as such, are terrified of anything that may represent a power that can oppose the absolute authority of the government, and become resentful of anyone or anything that does not hold such a dependent status. It is for this reason that the debate about the Right to Bear Arms and its execution is actually about the core organizing principals of society, and the attempt to shape the thoughts and minds of those who make up society. It is about popular sovereignty, the question of who is sovereign and from where does that sovereignty originate. And it is for this reason that gun control is at its center a core tenant of authoritarian ideology, a must win for the socialist agenda, and a target idea for thought control. This is why it is a target of ridiculous censorship, because everything that makes gun look or feel like there is something bad, wrong, peevish, or extremest about gun ownership or gun culture, is a sociological win for socialism, because it is a movement towards a feeling of dependence, where by security is a product of state subordination, rather than a self-generating condition generated by a people who have the mindset of independence, produced by being responsible for their own protection. 3D printing of firearms is one avenue of solution, as it adds to ease of ownership of the means of protection. As gun control strives to make firearm ownership more and more expensive, thereby robbing more and more people of the means of self protection and making them more dependent for their security, and more and more afraid of those who are not dependent, such solutions of this are a powerful too to keep the price of gun ownership down, and keep the accessibility of firearm open to the public. Long live the Saturday Night Special, long live the humble shotgun. Lift the import ban on non-sporting weapons. Long live 3D printing. Make Firearms Cheap Again.
I hate that PSR is getting harrassed so much. The man is a mechanical engineer technically, and an important part of technological development. Sure, said technology isn't all fun and games all the time, but someone still needs to do the work. Someone, at some point, had to write a guide for police stations on how to shovel bodies and body parts stuck to the road after crashes. Not fun, but needs doing.
