I 3D-Printed a Glock to See How Far Homemade Guns Have Come
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- The first-ever shooting competition exclusively for home-assembled firearms-or so-called “ghost guns”-was held in late June at a Florida gun range. These are guns with no serial numbers and thus no easy way for authorities to track down the owner or manufacturer.
The shooting contest was organized by a digital gun building collective called Are We Cool Yet? or AWCY, a group that has been pushing the envelope of what’s possible with 3D-printed arms, including a full-auto submachine gun, a “battle rifle,” and some designs that are totally unique.
Today's 3D-printed "ghost guns" can look, feel, and shoot like factory-made weapons.
To meet these gunmakers and get a true sense of what 3D-printed guns are capable of these days, VICE News correspondent Keegan Hamilton decided to enter the shooting contest in Florida-and build his own ghost gun, a 9mm Glock 19 pistol.
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@@robertofreitasfhWhy?
@@anacletoBR me refiro ao primeiro minuto do vídeo que está no link, eu nem continuei e nem vi restante do conteúdo.. botar a culpa do dia 8 em apoiadores do JB e logo linkar com capitólio, acho sacanagem
no thank you, you just encourage idiots to print guns!
It's not possible the print a functional firearm.. Not even with a metal printers.
''Criminal Purposes'' Is usually defined by the person or persons enforcing the law.
This is the best commercial for 3-D printed guns I've ever seen.
for real though. there's a lot of people that have gotten into 3d printed guns just from documentaries like this.
Watch print shoot repeat.
@@tbm7301 I'm people
@@noahchristensen1630 we are people indeed.
Everyone should have one
24:10 just to be clear, the 24,000 ghost guns recovered from crime scenes refers to ANY firearms with a modified/removed/missing serial number, not just 3d printed or 80% lowers.
Exactly!!!!!
All guns should be required to have ghost tags on them. Cars have them to prevent them from being stolen.
@@Anthony-ny8dg What is a ghost tag?
Well it is Vice after all.
They're the types that spread the 30,000 gun deaths implying it's all murders, while leaving out the part where most are self defense kills and suicides.
Got a link to the article?
So bro went to the range, built a gun, won third place, and then went straight to the ATF to snitch 😂
Sweaar tho!! 😭😭😭🤣
You think the ATF doesn't know about these? They are being used to extremists to kill people, they know.
BAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Pedophiles playing with guns.... he snitched on Pedophiles playing with guns. [ 21:10 ]
Oh and If anyone wants to get into semantics and say "only one guy is a pedo!!!!" Okay, lets break it down and look at this without broad generalizations.
Atleast 'one' convicted pedo (that we know of) and a group of people who allow pedophiles in their circles. This alone is screaming not so lowkey pedophile ring. (and thats without judging by the looks of some of them)
If you wanna go deeper lets consider the fact that pedophiles have a statistical track record of grouping up to exchange cp and commiting sex crimes against minors together. Not only encouraging eachother, protecting/blackmailing eachother to avoid getting caught, but also corrupting and disturbing the minds of the confused and abused children to continue this sick and evil behavior.
WHEN CODY SAYS
"These types of people... these young MEN 'quasi alienated.' " The young men there are likely being groomed and steered into becoming acting pedophiles themselves if not already. With Cody Wilsons reputation, it only makes sense for militant, politically charged pedophile MEN to flock to these types of events. *edit added the word pedo before MEN
If you dont snitch on pedophiles, who are you? I'd snitch on pedophiles stealing, I'd snitch on a pedophile selling weed. Bet your ass I'd definitely snitch on pedophiles making guns, and oh I'd absolutely snitch on the pedophile proudboy meet up.
And before anyone calls me a liberal, i support your ammendment rights your free speech your guns. Its all yours.
If all these men who love guns and so much want to make some real change in America... well you know what to do.
Bruh!!!!!😭😭😭😂😂
Interviewer literally snitched to the ATF.
The thought of criminals in the trap house having a printer and a day of arts n crafts with the homies is pretty funny
I picture them in full ski masks filling parts.
Yeah, actually lol'd
This one 😂😂😂👏
23:55 anyone else notice the ominous music they start silently playing when they start showing all these nerds with the guns...
bias af
@@Stevie-J hahaha Clearly we could not communicate well. Ill try again since my english aint the best, cartels are making their own guns and tanks so banning citizen from guns is stupid
“the first thing i printed was a cat for my daughter, the second thing i printed was a gun for me” lmao
murica
I would also print guns. They ensure a good life and no abuse from anyone.
God, I love America lol
Man's got his priorities right
Trust that’s jokes how he said that 🤣
they violated that designer with his criminal history
I don't like Vice since the whole Andrew Tate thing but I actually think they did him a favour by putting that part in there.
deservedly so tho lol
Back in the 80s, my bro made a shotgun from pipes and crap he found laying around the neighborhood. We also made a launcher capable of shooting flamming cans. All without internet or 3d printers. Heck, you can do some real damage with just a slingshot and some marbles/ball bearings.
Those are called slam guns in UK they use two pipes with a 12 gauge bullet with a nail
What type of slingshot was it and what ammunition size of the ball bearings? How strong were they?
The slam-fire shotgun is the one item that puts all the controversy to rest as far as I'm concerned. The only way around such basic guns is to ban the ammunition (should only take 50 years or so to use up existing stocks), but then again one can always make their own black powder. Maybe it's time for flint control.
@@faryldaryl3975 people have been killling each other since before weapons were invented. If we get rid of all weapons, then we will use rocks and sticks. Humans will always find creative ways to kill each other.
It's pretty out of touch with reality to imply that a slingshot or a pipe-shotgun (that is single loaded like a musket), would be anywhere as dangerous as a Glock 19 or a Skorpion SMG. You ever hear about a school shooting with a pipe shotgun or a slingshot? You hear about law enforcement or the military using those? Yeah me neither.
Those ghost gun reports and statistics also count firearms with a scratched off serial number. Ghost gun = Any firearm without a serial number or a scratched serial number
Yep, you beat me to it. Vice tried but still show their left leaning bias by not giving all the facts.
Print it with a serial number
They really tried it. Ain’t no one in Chicago got a printing factory for guns, but let the left tell it..
No firearm should be required to have a serial number or registration.
@@Charleythegod totally defeats the purpose of building your own firearm lol...
"You gotta be strong behind the gun" is the most polite way of saying "you're limp wristing it".
pffft, true!
i find it crazy he didnt keep the gun... he should have. print vice on it and put it in a frame
Hahaha he’s got soft hands!? I wish psie
@@Brandon-tz2wh Why print them when you can just buy some real steel from Suroosh Alvi's cousin?
You caught that too eh 😄
"made ENTIRELY from plastic and with a few metal parts" - Time to look up the word ENTIRELY in the dictionary.
that's the point, a gun bought in the black market is a lot more anonymus than that plastic online downloaded crap with delivered to an adress metal parts.
entirely OR with few metal parts
You still can't entirely print a safe or reliable gun. A plastic barrel wont last long !
@@ashleysmith3106 yeah that’s what i was wondering how will these plastic barrels last
@@lame8441 Well thats how clickbaiting works, you lie. They only printed the frame while all the functioning pieces were made from metal. You can't make a reliable gun from plastic, it will blow up after a few shots.
Ghost guns so terrifying he willingly went to an event with 100s of them. All the dudes are nerds, because building guns in this fashion is the gun equivalent of painting warhammer figurines.
The "ghost gun" crime "problem," to the extent the media talks about it, is 80% kits. Not these guys.
true, but its not like he was going to go to the trap where they sell kids guns to take the ops out.
@@ThePanshow10 I'd watch that video.
"This my glock 40 problem solva"
*isn't a glock, isn't. 40, only creates problems rather than solving them*
criminals aren't using 80% kits either. basically every single "ghost gun" recovered at a crime scene was a gun that had it's serial number illegally filed off
@@ThePanshow10 real.
@@4n4rch1st7 criminals are using auto firearms that have been banned since 1978
5:17 "...Their guns are works of art"
*Show a gun with balls*
Oh there are many guns with balls in this world
I always gave my guns girl names they should have a gun with tits
So that's why Biden is so against them, he's jealous.
@@charlesblake7802 And a stock that is a thicc booty in a thong
@@combatwombatstl5598 f Biden, I got a new Mod-9 with Bernie on it :D
Imagine explaining to a jury why the gun you used for self-defense had a dragon-headed barrel and a trigger guard made of plastic testicles.
It's what you had available...
why would i have to explain to the jury what underwear i was wearing at the time of the crime?
@@MrPaxio Maybe in Europe they might ask for you underwear carry license.
bro you just made me laugh my ass off😂
@@MrPaxio they wont. But they would ask what weapon you were using for the crime
Something to keep in mind, I don't think this was specifically mentioned in the video, but a "ghost gun" is classified as a firearm without a serial number; this means that a gun made by GLOCK or Springfield can have that firearms serial number scratched off, thus making it a "ghost gun". Keep in mind, when you hear all these reports about "ghost guns", a great majority of them are from regular firearms that just have their serial numbers scratched or defaced. Plus, even if someone does end up making a "ghost gun", they still have to test it out somewhere, and depending on where you live, that may be close to impossible without raising questions (LA or NY for example). Considering everything in this video, which the journalist (I forget his name) remained pretty non-biased, it's clear that it's easier, cheaper, and raises less questions to buy a firearm illegally and scratch off the serial number than making a 3D printed gun from scratch, file it down down, and refine it without using live ammo
My parents shoot theirs in their backyard. In the “country”, people shoot all the time and nobody questions it. I even know people that commonly say “I’m going to papas house this weekend to shoot” and stuff. There’s someone who knows one of these places around you.
@@MyMomHadMe most crime doesnt happen out in the country, it happens in the cities. most of the "ghost guns" that are confiscated or recovered from crime scenes are from gang members who scratched off the serial numbers, not 3D printed guns. someone who is willing to commit murder or rob someone is not willing to spend thousands on printing equipment, plastic, time finding the 3D models, hours of printing and filing, buying a lower parts kit, buying a slide and barrel , then assembling it all to then toss it once they've committed the crime.
@@that1993mustang but one would be fine to buy from a crackhead who is trying to make 100 bucks per gun for an easy print.
You didn't 3d print a Glock. A Glock includes the barrel and slide, etc. You basically printed the handle. You could have done the same by carving some wood.
That lower part is legally defined as a gun according to the government.
This doc got more people in to 3d printing guns than anything else
Or 3D printing in general :)
Yeah! When the guy 3D printed a toy rabbit for his daughter, that's cool.. I'm definitely looking to buy a 3D printer. My kids, neices and nephews love plastic military toys (soldiers, tanks, airplanes, etc)
Don't you see it's all by design? The States, Cities, and Feds are allowing criminals out of jail and prison. They are also allowing people to rob stores without any recourse.
@@alvinjohnson2402 dont forget the guns man
LOL Yeah those guns look just so reliable. Make me totally want to build that junk.
“these guns are works of art”
**shows a gun with balls**
liberals have pooped on plates and called it modern art 🤷🏼♂️
A work of art
I bet that was his favorite one. He seems like he prefers dudes over women
Let me hang.
@@tonelab77 fax lmfaoooo
"First thing I printed was a cat for my daughter... second thing I printed was a gun for me"
This guy gets it.
I'm so sick of the ghost gun name
It has always been legal for Amarcans to build there own firearms.
"Cause their guns are works of art"
*casually showcase a glock with balls* 🤣🤣🤣
Lmaoooo hilarious
😭😭😭😭
finnaly glock to put into my mouth
@@monke6912 bro...
@@monke6912 please dont suck start your glock
It has always been possible to build a gun from scratch with a milling machine and lathe. This is just the new age equivalent
There are towns in Pakistan that have been doing this for a century
AKA 3d erasers.
@@johncolgrove2397 yep. They’ve been building 1911s in huts in the Philippines for ages too
VERY good point
Zip guns have been made with just parts from hardware stores and household tool's
Issue is they printed it an angle which results in low smoothness of the straight surfaces.
They should've printed it upside down parallel to the print bed.
There are also modifications that could be done to avoid sagging of some of the critical surfaces.
Also they printed it from PLA which is not easy to sand and can melt easily, ABS would be a much better choice.
Lastly the above info is just normal 3D printer dude kind of knowledge.
Yeah, the gun going in and out of battery just fine when unloaded showed me that it was probably a feed ramp/barrel alignment or smoothness issue, not a frame issue. I expected a bit more expertise.
when you print upside down or right side up the layers sit on top of each other and when you shoot after 50 rounds the magwell cracks and the pin falls out
@@navykitty5339 You're right, it would rely on layer adhesion and that depends on print/printer quality.
But you also could print it at 90* probably sitting on its back.
@@Arek_R. for durability that’s probably 2nd best (45 degrees is 1st) but like that you can’t have a nice design on the back
@@Arek_R. The amount of gluestick they slathered on the bed tells me adhesion is an issue with that particular printer.
Goes straight to the ATF right after xD
"criminals and terrorists" followed by a montage of the nerdiest looking dudes ever lmao
surprise! Snowden fits the description as well.
Yes truly scary monsters.
Heinrich Himmler was an ex chicken farmer and looked nerdy as hell!
Apologies for bringing Godwin's Law in to this this early.
And one didler
@@whiteprivilege7961 And one didler?
"First thing I printed was a cat for my child. Second thing I printed was a gun for me"
😂 Amazing.
Least American dad
@@Quantemic_o a real American
would have made his daughter a gun
Wtf lmfao funny in a “I’m retarded” sense:
@@Quantemic_o on god
Priorities.
I love the part in the beginning that insinuates that man was able to "rapidly fire" at a target 200+ yards downrange as if he would hit anything.
At the end of the video ATF is going to check on the people at the competition 😂
When the feds talk about recovering "ghost guns" they're talking about recovering any gun without a serial number not a 3d printed gun. It could be a regular gun with the serial number filed off.
Facts!
Yeah but that clarification doesn't help the narrative, so let's have no more talk of that.
Incorrect.
@@bigguy7353 How so?
@@kali6651 He doesn't know, he is just arguing to argue.
"The first thing I printed was a cat, for her."
"The second thing I printed was a gun, for me"
... the future is here.
Best comment
Im just waiting for scientist to invent food 3d printer.
hopefully
First thing I printed was a benchy to test my setup. Guess I'm doing it wrong.
For any creality 3d printer the first thing you print is decapacat
Thank you, Tim for all you do. You are an asset to the Gun community. I have just finished building my third SL 15 lower. Keep up the good work.
The reporter's belief that control of gun ownership is a way to prevent crime was obvious and ignored facts to the contrary. But good for him to participate in the event and maybe learn about some other perspectives.
Really enjoyed the reporter and his style on this one, taking the critical side but allowing for the interviewees the same fair say. Didn't expect a piece on guns this calm and chill in 2021, big props.
Same. The only problem I had with the video is the constant fear of criminal usage in the future. Terrorist, gangs, cartels, ect. have been and will continue to manufacture ghost weapons, auto sears, artillery, improvised heavy armored combat vehicles, ect. for almost 30 years. This isn’t something new unfortunately.
"Taking the critical side"
journalists are supposed to be impartial...
The real leftists want to have firearms because that's how they control everyone else.
Yeah was legit refreshing to see VICE with such balanced interviewing. Dude did a great job of keeping it respectful and neutral
couldnt agree more
Journalist guy: *gently tapping tool*
Gun guy: "you should probably give that a good whack"
Journalist: *continues gently tapping tool*
Yeah caused he worried that it may fired by whacking it, pretty reasonable to me 🤷♂️
@ Huy Cao: At this point there isn't even a chamber to put a bullet into. He is probably simply worried that the printed part might break.
Owning and operating a gun is often at the center of gun advocates manliness, so they like to emasculate non gun owners - hence the original comment.
@@fyouimbad1571 it’s not a sig, it’s a Glock. They are drop safe. Bang on it as much as you want and it will never go boom unless you pull the trigger.
@@jonboy9734 bro its a "homemade-gun", how the hell am i gonna know how safe and reliable it is, so if some dude i just met 1 hour ago tell me to whack the guns chamber, i aint gonna whack it
Because most people without experience are used to gently handling every day items such as phones or whatever.
Did you really run right to the government for a show and tell? lol You went to the competition and had a blast, made some friends, and then turned rat as fast as you could. Wow.
Keegan! Awesome episode man. Glad to see you are doing impactful work.
The funniest part of the video to me is the insinuation in the news at the beginning that police regularly deal with 3D printed firearms when the reality is that 99% of the "ghost guns" that they encounter are just regular guns that had the serial number removed because they were stolen and bought on the black market
It's called conflating.
By throwing in 3D printed firearms with real firearms with the serial numbers removed, they can make outrageous claims that can technically be backed up
It's a common tactic of the degenerate left.
@@kriptid4506 Yeah sure dude i'm sure you know from experience. *rolls eyes*
@@Lcg8928 I'm not even gonna try to question what that means
@@kriptid4506 He's telling you that you're an idiot, and you're only feeding fuel to that fire.
@@kriptid4506 It's not even remotely true. No one is bothering to 3D print gun parts to commit crimes with. It's plenty easy to get a gun and file the serial number off of it. Why go through the trouble of 3D printing something? Nevermind the idea that somehow "ghost guns" are more difficult to deal with in crime than other guns.
Just to be clear, a ghost gun isn't necessarily a 3d printed gun, so out of all the 24000 "ghost guns" collected by authorities, the number of those that are 3d printed are most likely very low.
So do the 3d guns really shoot
A ghost gun is categorised as such because it's untraceable, be it 3d printed or manufactured by definition. So it could literally be a stolen manufactured gun with the numbers filed off. No way to distinguish because the government won't say how many recovered "ghost guns" are 3d printed or factory built. Or home fabricated minus 3d printed.
@@stltrappin8062 did you not watch the video?
@@tedparker640 dat Waz to weeks ago go home roger
Most likely none
Thank you for the guide into guns printing. This knowledge is very helpful in teaching beginners how to print guns for multiple uses.
the most impressive thing about this mans 3d printer is the upgraded springs replacing the crappy oem spring.
I immediately noticed it and its a good indicator of experience with printers.
4:53
Also adding the glue on the plate beforehand is a nice little trick he did
“Most art can’t be used to kill people.” Someone hasn’t watched Forged in Fire before…
Still correct when it comes to swords and knives.
as if you can't hit someone in the head with a framed painting
@@THESLlCK They're not designed for that though.
Gun's were originally designed to kill other humans, as they were and are much better than crossbows, which were the next best thing at the time.
@@GazB85 as if that makes it more deadly. Deaths by automobile rank #7 in all things that kill people worldwide. Not what they were built for.
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I'm not invested into guns or know anything about them to be frank, I'm from the EU after all.
But man, these guys have more in common with video games nerds than with criminals, just give them a break and let them enjoy the process.
Also it looks hella fun building these things.
needle files is a fantastic idea. ive been using sandpaper around pens. this will make things much easier. I do love the discordant music vice put over the mini montages of people showing off their firearms. like "We just showed people this cool thing, how do we make them uneasy about it"
What really makes me mad about this is that someone really took the time to 3d printed a high point 😂
AHAHA I thought the same thing! You could almost print anything you want, and they chose a high point ahahaha
It would probably be cheaper just to buy a hi-point after you factor in time and materials required to 3D print one of them.
Because you can get all the parts for $80
@@SamChaneyProductions And you can get a real hi point .45 for $150 on most days. Seems like a waste of time.
i commented saying this before i saw you said the same thing lol
Fun fact, when they opened up the definition of “ghost gun” to include any firearm with a filed off serial number, there was a huge spike in ghost guns used in crimes. Who woulda thought?
Just a way to go from free people to Nazi Germany. This government wants America to be Communist China, and look how great that has gone for people.
Like every other keyword or over used statistic used by the left, it's been redefined so that the term or numbers can be used to push their narrative.
Hahaha thanks for the free knowledge
It says 3 replies but I only see one 🤔
@@Gooshytgoosemine said 4 replies, but I only saw 2… 🙄
I had a rifle stolen in 1985 and it has never been returned. Tell me again how serial numbers help.
sorry bro I forgot to give it back to you my b
@@stuffedcrust4522😂don’t give it back lol
The truth of it is that criminals aren't making the guns because the skill to do so is marketable and wouldn't require someone without the ability to make an honest living, unless you're making the guns for them to profit from criminals. Which would be a great opportunity to catch criminals in of itself.
"Man cares about himself, that means he cares about other people" I don't know why, but that's the sweetest compliment i've heard from a guy that's totally on the different side of the spectrum from the vice reporter.
He's definitely a patient, curious, and empathetic guy: and kudos to Vice for not editing out those moments to make him seem like a run of the mill 2A gung-ho bro.
@@dylanlafreniere3479 haha spot on!
@@dylanlafreniere3479 I wouldn't even consider it an insult, I think this guy really cares about the image he puts out, and also understands that not every person you come across will be on the same page. They couldn't of picked a better man to show this vice reporter their side of the world.
@@OlYables he is the run of the mill 2a guy. your making out the made up fake 2a guy made by the media is the run of the mill 2a guy, dont make the same mistake in the future
My family are pro gun so we love guns and im 15 I know how to shoot a gun and and carry it like it's not a toy I carry it like it's a let's say a baby so I take care of my dad's ar 15 and other guns
"Second thing I printed was a gun for me" had me rolling
Same 😂
Murica time
Interview with ATF at 25 minutes Interviewer: there was a competition of 💯% printed 3D guns
ATF Agent: Really... (We'll make sure to infiltrate and send undercover agents) lol
ATF did, they send Vice "news"
next step: TODAY WE WILL PRINT A TANK FROM SCRATCH WITH A 3D PRINTER!
“Unserialized” guns mean the serial number is removed or missing. If it was scratched off it counts as one of those 240,000.
California news will call a gun with a serial number scratched off a ghost gun
Most illegal guns are bought from the back of a trunk and are factory made weapons, either funneled through cartel or by other means of criminal circulation. 3D printed are extremely small portion, and building one isn’t as easy as made out to be by any means.
The cheapest ghost gun is the one you can buy in an alley with the serial number scratched off that way you don’t have to spend time and lots of money building one.
Nah bro… the homedepot shotgun is by far the cheapest and easiest.
@@cybertrk no cap dawg that hoe accurate too
You might be giving money to someone that just killed an innocent person to steal that same gun, don't do that.
Good luck buying a dragon barrel gun from the alley guy!
But gun laws stop criminals from doing that. Right? Oh yeah. Criminals dont obey laws. Only responsible people do.
Buys an ender 5, prints a cute cat, prints a glock
This is definitely a "their both right" situation. People should be able to build these guns. They also are impossible to stop and will lead to additional guns in the hands of people that will harm others.
Finally, those overpriced gun skins in FPS game can be bought for real.
Literally same
We do what we can!
Printer aside, the material to print is cheaper than a weapon blueprint in COD. That's not a joke
lets get to printing 😎
What about school shooting?
'Anybody can do it, and that is scary.'
Proceeds to struggle for hours while under the supervision of an experienced gunsmith.
Pride before fall. Remember when we thought no one would attack Pearl Harbor directly? Or, that people would hijack a plane and fly it into a building?
@@dadgaming6257 Yeah, but people struggling to recreate centuries old weapons is a far less prescient concern than automated warfare.
Guns are a hobby nowadays, anybody can make a sword too.
@@eloujtimereaver4504 sure, people use whatever they can find to make weapons like fire extinguishers and flag poles. Guns need only to fire once in some cases. It's not perfected now, but it will be. That's how engineering works. No one wants to make a sword though. If you can get a gun at cost of plastic materials and knowledge of assembly without need for registration. The question soon becomes, why waste the money? If you can perfect your trade with plastic weaponry to be reliable, accounting for heat generation, you just struck gold.
@@dadgaming6257 My point is that guns are as out dated as swords.
Individuals who intend to do a singular violent action are much more likely to take up whatever is to hand than to meticulously craft something.
Anyone who intends a grander scale has much more effective options in modern times.
He meant anybody can learn how to do it and that’s concerning.
🤔 25minutes in...dude snitched on the whole operation lmao. Got video evidence, gave details, and probably license plates too 😂😢😅
Homie literally snitched at the end, WITH VIDEO loool
20k ghost guns found on crime scenes, we all know that means guns with filed, serial numbers right ?
I have a feeling that Vice left that bit of info out on purpose.
All guns should be banned to combat that, we need better gun control
@@stuckpencil2509 A complete ban on guns in America will never happen. Any real attempt at doing so would likely result in large scale violent rebellions that make the Capitol Riots look like a Sunday morning stroll with Grandma.
@@stuckpencil2509 Like Tesla said. Good luck lol. I personally think we should be at least as armed as those willing to do harm to us
@@hypnotoad28 Guns, however, are completely useless against the Hypnotoad for obvious reasons. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
The reason why this was so fast was because the printer was already fine-tuned. Someone buying a fresh printer would have to experiment over weeks, tweaking settings, in order to get a decent firearm.
Weeks? It took me 3 months of tweaking to get my printer to print a decent benchy.
Depends, some are very well prealigned.
@Dominic Knepper 3 month I'm still tweaking 😂
@@dominicknepper2082 Amateur, I'm on year 2
@@dominicknepper2082 took me less than 2 hours to get my printer making perfect 24+ hour prints
The quack burnt it all dramatically at the end like he was saving man kind lmao
Instead of just a lot of money it’s money and time to make a gun lol
In the US, "Ghost guns" also include standard firearms that have their serial numbers ground off, which is far more common here in the US than 3d printed ones.
yep, the stat for 24.000 guns is very misleading, which is why they didn't say: 3d printed guns
Its still a problem, sadly everything thing good has a bad side. So the bad sude for these cool guns is that people can sell them on the streets.
@@vyros.3234 oh no, not only corporations can profit from something
@@vyros.3234 Yeah but stolen guns are more common how important is it to track a gun when the stolen guns aren't traceable either
"Also include" the term ghost gun is when the serial number is scratched off bruh, plus 3d printed guns are simply for looks unless you believe a plastic barrel won't melt after half a clip.
Reporter: Ghost guns are extremely dangerous
Guy with ghost gun: think my hammer broke
Another guy: haha veiny ballsack gun
Yeah never heard of a dangerous killer using his first murder weapon to make a cat, but hey he’s gotta be evil because a washed out “news” source tells us it is right?
I do have to admit the journalists tried to keep an open mind…to an extent
Lmao 😂
shoot leftist nazis in the face if they try its self defense, JUSTICE FOR JACOB GARDNER
@@nonpogreyaccount3038 your gonna get put on a list homie 😬😬
Great how to video! Thank you!
Never inviting you to hang out and look at my guns. Just gonna show the federal agent a video with me in it.
What they don't mention in those "ghost gun" statistics is that it includes regular guns which have had the serial numbers filed off.
whish has always been possible and is very common for criminals.
ghost guns aren't a new issue, anyone with a brain can figure out that removing the marking on a gun makes it harder to track if it were used for crime.
the difference and the thing that could be a genuine concern is that you can at home, relatively easily make a fully plastic gun, that is undetectable.
at the end of the day, if someone wants to illegally acquire a gun, they will be able to, regardless of if it's bought from someone else, or homemade.
as a European, I'm all for putting restrictions on firearms, but with the sheer amount of guns circulating in the US, it's pointless to even try, the guns are already out there.
similarly, homemade bombs were always doable.
get a pipe, plug off the ends with a small hole for a fuse, put a bunch of powder in it, and here you go, a grenade.
the sheer existence of 3D printing doesn't all of a sudden make it possible, it just makes it maybe a little easier in certain cases, but that it.
On the last report the UK did about ghost guns in London (specifically 3D printed ones) they said they have 7 of them in police custody. what they failed to mention is that 4 of those 7 were printed by the police for training purposes. so in like 10 years people could have been 3d printing guns for illegal activity, only 3 have ever been discovered in the UK. and of those 3, none of them worked. and apparently its a massive terror threat in the UK.
You are correct sir! Every crime statistic that has been released are usually beefed up with things that are not the same as what they are report on . The Truth will set us free , And lock them up.
@@ledocteur7701 A famous European once said, if you want a gun, join the Wehrmacht.
Important note that should have been made when showing the statistics about ghost guns is that a legally made weapon with a serial number which thereafter has its serial number melted or filed or somehow removed is legally considered a ghost gun and makes up an extremely large portion of those numbers.
Almost ALL the guns considered "ghost guns" are just guns with a serial number that's been removed. That includes a lot of the guns Obama gave to the Mexican cartels in operation fast and furious.
Ultimately the end result is now-untraceable guns, but the number of weapons that have a record of having been manufactured and are not longer traceable, and the number of guns of which there is no record of production at all, are both worth knowing. As is the the sum of those.
@@firelizard2 so you'd want a government registry? Oh ya...those have NEVER been used to confiscate guns and subjugate a now defenseless population.
I would guess that firearms that have been tampered or had serial numbers removed, make up more than 75% of that statistic.
You think stats on untraceable firearms are accurate?
I feel like that ATF agent was just waiting until those cameras off to ask the “real” questions 😂
I'm not too keen to the toy looking nature of some of these, but then once I think about it, I realize that isn't going to change much. I have always been interested in firearms. I can say that as a kid, I would have been drawn into a "gun" shaped object by a kid. Luckily I grew up around responsible people that one didn't negligently allow unsupervised access to dangerous objects, and secondly taught me to respect all dangerous objects. Those 2 points are extremely important.
5:19 “because their guns are works of art”
*cuts to gun with testicles
Garand Daddy sqaud represent
cut the testicles
Bless the soul of the basically co-host of this documentary. He clearly is on a different point on the political spectrum as VICE is, yet opens his door, arms and heart for them to show them a little piece of his world. Fully free of judgement or pushing any sort of believe system.
That is how we should talk to each other, instead of this hateful "YOU AGAINST ME" mentality that is forced down our throat.
yeah man I totally was about to comment just smth like what you've posted, this guy has just the right energy level on every spectrum
I at least think that VICE deserves some credit for showing this guy’s point of view instead of just censoring it in order to push more of an agenda.
You mean an ethical, professional, and responsible journalist? Definitely need more of them. Vice has fairly high journalistic standards, though. They may do a lot of the clickbaity topics: drugs and lifestyle. If you feel personally injured by one of their publishings, then you should probably reflect upon yourself and life. Vice senior leadership and its founders are all over the political spectrum which puts them, imo, perfectly in the centrist category where all journalism should be. It's unfortunate that extremism from both political angles have taken over the top media outlets.
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Definitely very one sided but I like that they showed they others point of view
alternate universe where heisenberg and jesse were ghost gun manufacturers
Thank you to all the people making this possible. "With great power come great responsibility" 🤗
Even the inventor of the first one…who plead guilty to raping a sixteen year old.
ATF Agent: "reeeeeeaaalllllyyyy?" lol Again, great documentary Vice.
Glad I wasn’t the only one to see the hilarity in his “surprised” expression.
@@yoloman544 I don't know if it's just me, but I can see the agent taking mental notes of the people in the competition. #pavlovianconditioning LOL
You'll be pleased to know the ATF absolutely knows about these competitions that are held around the country.. in Winter also may or may not be pleased that these competitions will continue to be held.
Doubt he was actually surprised haha. They are fully aware and have boys embedded in these ghost gun communities. One of the dudes that won is probably working with the ATF just to keep tabs and a close eye. I know a few were exposed in forums last year.
y'all know this is legal right?
Getting the feeling this reporter likes guns but really doesn’t like that he likes them.
There's two types of people, people who like guns and people who've never fired one.
I feel like he's like me, who love guns to death and find them to be technological and engineering marvels, but put off by the very apparent issue america has that the rest of the world doesn't seem to have, which may or may not be related at all to the readily availability of firearms in america.
adrenaline is pumping
Also his body gesture, he's very defensive about it
@@NotKimiRaikkonen I fucking hate them and I've shot multiple, you stupid?
the real crime was the burning plastic at the end
"Is this easy?"
Let's be real, any minecraft nerd could figure this out in the same amount of time without an expert sitting next to them.
The play on words is insane, a ghost gun, historically, is a gun with the serial numbers defaced, not a “homemade gun”
Wow insane! Lmao
They're really slandering them. Interesting video but filled with extreme bias towards gun control.
@@nolanwunderlich167 it’s vice….
@@venture2466 Yeahh looked at a few other videos, disliked most of em.
@@nolanwunderlich167 Wtf are you guys on? Ghost Guns is a company that makes build-your-own gun kits that are similar to 3D printed guns, and that’s where the term came into use when referring to guns (besides the serial number ones you mentioned) that are made yourself.
You’re mad at nothing.
I like how the ATF agent was basically unphased by the gun meet up & his main concern was not who is making these guns but what the guns are being used for.
like the atf cares, they will hunt you down for de dumbest bulshit
I like how he acted like he was suprised by a lot of it. You know damn well they probably have all those guys IP addresses
Especially with a full auto 3d printed scorpion Evo.
@@killertruth186 super easy to miss if your not familiar but he made it abundantly clear when talking to the ATF agent that he had a SOT license.
@@pdjr1991 Ah.
Vice reporter: check out these guns you sent me in undercover to check out.
ATF agent: I'm concerned that looks like a toy.
(ATF agent turns toward computer and types "found a new reason to shoot people with nerf guns guy". send to whole office)
Jamming will be an issue due to the expansion when fired, so for it to work then would feel loose in places but that will change when materials for 3d printing get better
FYI the 24,000 "ghost guns" referenced are not all 3D printed. The majority (23,000+) are regular firearms that have had the serial numbers removed by the user/seller to try and hide the weapons origin (stolen).
Yep, it's called called using misinformation to sell your agenda.
@@Brian--0311 That is untrue. Serial numbers are stamped into the metal/plastic of a weapon. If you grind the material down enough, the number can and will disappear completely. However, most guns have serial numbers in multiple locations. So, you would have to grind off multiple serial numbers to make it a ghost gun
It IS possible to completely remove a serial number. But just attempting to remove it constitutes a federal crime, and any weapon recovered with a damaged SN is considered a "ghost gun" by LE. This whole myth that they can't be removed is just that, myth.
@@aztronomy7457 moving the goalposts, huh? nice try.
@@pww571Williams you should never file the serial nr, rather drill them.
For only $350 in gun parts and plastic, and several days of your life, you too can own a gun that runs worse than a $200 hi-point meme gun.
Takes a LOT of work to make a gun worse than a hi point
Shhhh don’t let the liberals know
Yes but it’s perfectly fine as a throw away m3rd3r weapon though… IJS a lot of people who would want this aren’t interested in cycling hundreds of rounds reliably.
I’m not into guns but could totally see the fun in printing your own design and building it up. For some, printing and building is half of the fun!
YEET Cannon ftw.
Bro straight up narced on every one at that competition. Showed their faces and everything
He snitched 😂😂
ATF : oh reallyyy
I’ve never seen a guy ‘dry snitch’ as hard as this guy showing the agent the contest footage
I was like "that little B...snitching after a fun weekend"
Dry snitch naw he flat out ratted bro 🤣🤣🤣
bro he did all them people dirty. Showing video of their faces with home made guns.. That ATF agent is gonna have a field day!!! lol
yeah i wanna take back my watch after i saw this douche do that.
@@hollywood16571 did u see the agents eyes light up like “oh really “ 😂😂😂
respect to both of them to have a respectful convo while building what sets them apart. this was kinda wholesome.
How are they building 'what sets them apart'? The reporter didn't give his personal view on guns, just gave the guy questions from different points of view, as reporters should do in order to provoke deeper responses.
@@User36282 it's clear where his loyalty lies.
@@JJadx That's your assumption, but all the evidence in this video would say otherwise, such as him actually spending hours building and firing the guns and being in a contest where he ultimately came 3rd. Just because he gave some alternative questions in order to be a devils advocate does not make him against them. Someone so against guns wouldn't do half the stuff he did.
The reporter didn't have an opinion here. He was just literally asking questions. Have you ever seen an interview before?
Also, just because they were polite and welcoming doesn't make this wholesome.
3D printed guns just went from more dangerous to the user, to having semi-automatic shooting contests. And all you see is "Wow, look how nice and civil they're while giving an interview. " Are you naïve or just stupid?
@@yeetleslaw8529 neither. you're trying to frame me as right wing which is very funny. i'm just used to more agressive tactics from vice. 100% pro gun control btw. we had 1 shooting in my country since i was born and this is a real danger for us. although i don't see the cop as the issue here. rather the pedo with his website. most of these guns have a hobby which i don't mind at all. if you're selling easy DIY kits to the EU however..
I've worked in Foundries most of my working life and much of that time has been spent in a workshop. I was a Fitter. I have worked Metal constantly for 40 years and I'm very, very confident i wouldn't need a 3D printer to make a Gun. I dare say i could probably make one with Schematics in less than 24 hrs. That includes choosing the right AB to rifling the Barrel. I'm pretty saucy with a Lathe.
How about a knife? Forging a knife? Forging a knife is a lot cheaper compared to 3d printing.
Next big thing is going to be eco friendly and recycled ghost guns, made out of recycled or hemp-plastic.
Organic shooters.
Would unironically love this
There's already 3D printing plastics like that lmao
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You better patent that idea boss
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I love the 3d printed bomb thingy the ATF agent had. "You can make a bomb by combining this simple piece of plastic with an explosive charge and an activation mechanism!" Which is equally true of a tin can, or literally any container.
They're 3D printing those fins all across Europe now for use in the Ukraine.
Simmeler IED's are being used against Russia by Ukraine rite now.
Except a tin can or other container isn't optimised for the job of killing people, is it?
"I can show you how to make a bomb from a toilet paper tube... And dynamite"- Dale gribble
@@InvestmentJoy "Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone using only a squirrel, some string and a megaphone."
in the fun side its cool to see each individual custom 3d guns and how long it would last
I love how the ATF agent is more impressed than concerned
They probably had an undercover agent at the competition. The ATF agent's reaction seemed fake to me, like he already knew.
How do you know he is not concerned? He might be very concerned and even use the video to ID the people using facial ID software. And they won't see it coming until armed ATF agents are breaking down their doors.
@@ElfServiceNG well, they probably had to clear the competition with the ATF before they were legally able to hold it.
Still wouldn't trust him around my dog
I love how a sex offender is someone this video thought was a good source.
This video showed that 3D printed guns and “ghost guns” are actually very hard to build. You can only print certain parts, you have to order the most important ones(they left out the waiting for the stuff in the mail as part of the build time), and you have constantly tweak and test it before it actually works
Not to mention the cost for a decent 3D printer, the plastic, and the cost of those metal parts - eek
3D printing is actually prototyping. It may take them a while to get a working prototype, but one working prototype is all they need for mass production. 3D printed guns will not be hard to build at all. They will be ubiquitous.
@@marquisstrongchild7535 That's not how 3D printers work. If you want to mass produce, you use injection molding or so, not 3D printing lol. 3D printers build things ONE LINE AT A TIME which means there's ALWAYS a *ton* of finishing work (sanding) to do before things are even close to a decent fitment heh
@@3nertia mass production is not just when one printer pumps out 100's of guns a day. It is also when millions people all over the country who have these $200 printers each make a working prototype. What makes 3D printing guns impossible to regulate will not be 100 people producing 1000 guns each. It will be 10 million people producing 1 gun each.
@@marquisstrongchild7535 If you think you're getting anything other than junk with a $200 printer ....
Hilarious how the supreme court ruled it unconstitutional to ban ploymer 80 guns😂
How is it "printing a gun", if you need to buy the barrel, the trigger, the slider and the magazine for the gun online? Aren't those the actual parts that make it fire?
Lmao
"Freedom isn't safe" has got to be one of the best quotes.
Exactly gotta defend ourselves
@@airbud3 against what ? Other people with firearms ? You should first protect yourself from too much sugar and fat - you know, the first cause of mortality in the US
@@airbud3 Yeah like getting vaccinated against infectious diseases.
@@demonduchaos6 clearly work out 5 days a week don’t get whatcha putting down
@@frbe0101 been on the boat buddy but sure let’s group people they need a firearm to protect our families with people that don’t get vax? Fighting with someone that looks at both sides of people’s beliefs isn’t going to get you far.