If you live in the United States, buying a gun can be as easy as going to Walmart. In countries with strict gun laws, such as most of Europe or Australia, you need a little more ingenuity. Although not that much more: Since March 2020, anyone with access to a cheap secondhand 3D printer and experience putting IKEA furniture together can do it. Does that mean the rest of us should start printing bunkers, presto? Or are we worried for nothing? Things That Go Boom travels to the mean streets of New York and the jungles of Myanmar to find out.
Guests:
Lizzie Dearden, British journalist specializing in the modern technology that offers criminals and terrorists new ways to operate; Frank Grosspietsch, Canadian expert and international consultant in all things ghost gun; Manny Maung, Burmese journalist and human rights expert; “Rebel Lion,” Burmese rebel fighter resisting the military junta; and Brendan Baker, reading the English translation of Rebel Lion’s Burmese.
Additional Resources:
Rebel Lion‘s Facebook profile.
Rap Against Junta, the Burmese resistance hip-hop collective making music denouncing the military junta.
Lizzie Dearden’s latest book, Plotters, about the terrorist plots you’ve never heard of because the perpetrators were caught in time.
