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G2R, NULL-22, TRITON, & PLASMA BLASTER

It's a DIY Defense Summer!

The past month was ripe with new releases, and we start off with DB-Firearms latest: The Triton-9. Employing his recent refinements of the MAC-11 system, DB updates the FGC-9 MK2 with Riptide Rail components. The Triton shares several components with the FGC-9 MK2, including the barrel, feed ramp, magazine release, and AR-15 fire control group. It's safe to say the FGC platform has achieved a classic status in 3D2A, so it's nice when an aesthetic remixe can also surprise us with true functional updates.

Unseenkiller has been on an unbelievable, unparalleled run. This month he tackles the Ruger 10/22 system with the GR2 Sporter. Based on the Galileo R2 system, again from DB-Firearms, this remix makes a significant number of improvements to the user experience in terms of printing, install, and available feature. Making this build, you find its also a beefy thing, and might soon become your favorite plinker! His Unseenness also sets an open source standard with his consistent inclusion of Fusion360 source files.

Just-In-Case introduces us to the big brother of the Not-A-Glock with the NULL-22. This G19-sized mostly-printable semi-automatic pistol platform is not just beautiful, but it also supports CCI Stinger hollowpoints. While the developer refuses to use anything but Tinkercad, there is still hope his friends and enemies can hypnotize him into using a real, parametric CAD program. Rounding off the month's notables is GreerTech recent drop of the PlasmaBlaster, which is a keep-it-simple-stupid flamethrower making use of a butane lighter and (easily available) propellant can. Just in time for that cookout on the Fourth.

3D Gun Culture

PRIDE MONTH

3D gun printers may feel some mix of relief and reassurance that this year's Pride Month passed with an unusually small cultural footprint. No doubt developer names like "faggythekid" and "SuckBoy" (or projects like AWCY's "PEN15" launcher) are annoying statements of masculine emotional limitation as much as they are powerful, if ultimately meaningless, psychosexual expressions. But to dimiss even these vulgarities is to begin to overlook 3D2A's true history of gay arts and letters; its queer correspondence, which, far from afterthought, is in fact the field's constitutive dimension. It's time we recognize TWiG, Guncad's longest-running cultural production.

We find a secret radicalism even in the podcast's title, which is clearly drawn from British slang. Twig, you see, is a Polari term for a "young man willing to become almost any dominant man's partner." But this Gatalog podcast is about much more than preserving the camp and cant of the lost language of gay men. It's also an experimental, autofictional work of joint queer biography.

In its recent seasons, TWiG has grown beyond the libidinal musings of the lonely Fuddbuster. With the addition of John Elik as Great Rememberer, TWiG has evolved into a creative, spontaneous, and podcast-length justification of mutual male infatuation. The suffering ecstasies and gulping monologues of Larosiere, whose blood boils too much for him to bear, are transformed through Elik's midnight intimacies and paratextual confessions into a profound exchange of two men's love thoughts and mind histories. This is some of the best gay fiction of the decade, in any medium, and we are priviliged to witness!

But our co-hosts' romance yields other art. I'm speaking now of The Hitchhiker, that 3D salute to Kerouac's road novels of the 1950s, his great love of Neal Cassady, and the digital model that became the literary embodiment of a friendship's most pivotal moment. I mean that friendship that concealed an employment, that concealed a romance, that wound two men's fates together tight and final. In Visions of Cody, Kerouac's greatest tribute to Cassady and Mortal America, we are schooled in the raw road night. We learn that "a face just covers a skull awhile."

TWiG reminds us 3D hithchikers that since we are headed so straight for the grave, we can at least "stretch that skull-cover and smile."

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LEGAL

DD v YouTube

Defense Distributed v. YouTube, now filed in the 3rd Business Court of Texas (Case no. 25-BC03B-0009), accuses Google and YouTube of discriminatory content moderation and viewpoint-based censorship in response to the one-way ratchet that Google has applied against Americans in the public exercise of their Second Amendment rights.

Ten years ago Google unilaterally decided all firearms-related content was no longer “advertiser friendly,” and through YouTube began to censor and demonetize popular firearms channels well within the mainstream of American political discourse. Without pushback Google continues to evolve its positions, and for the last five years has banned any advertisement or video which even suggests how an American might operate or make a firearm.

This is open and notorious censorship of speech and activity explicitly protected by the United States Constitution. The Second Amendment was adopted by Congress in 1792 to settle the question of where the ultimate American military authority and “national security” resided. Somehow, in the name of public safety and community guidelines, the Deep State Censorship Industrial Complex has used Google to enforce its counter-populist priorities through the censorship of an entire category of American civic life.

We are asking Texas to stop it.

Video

Making Metal Parts with a 3D Printed Tool

It is uncontested that FDM printing can and is used as a way to manufacture parts, especially within the firearm space. But the technology shines both in rapid prototyping and in making specific tools for other manufacturing techniques. YouTuber Super Valid Designs takes time with this video to illustrate how he used FDM printing to make a specialized system to massively simplify his own production workflow.

He spends a significant portion of the video walking through how he came up with his original product and the various iterations he needed to go through to get it market while still remaining open-source. Of particular note is that the component of difficulty was the contact spring. Given how integral springs are to most fireram fire control groups this is an excellent exploration of a particular avenue of development. Given the tolerance and fitment considerations this die creation of his may go far beyond the classical spring factory considerations especially with all the custom springs showing up in projects like the Decker 380.

Without deep and novel explorations of manufacturing techniques there cannot be any real new trends within DIY defense and DEFCAD is committed to looking forward past the tried and true