This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to journalist James Stout.

He's going to be talking to us about his work covering the 3D printed guns of the Myanmar rebels they've been using J-Stacks

FGC 9 to try and combat the brutal junta that's taken over the country.

For many of the Myanmar rebels Jay Stack is a hero to them and has

essentially left his legacy for them to keep fighting. If you like what we're doing

please support us at patreon.com slash popular front or popular front

dot co slash support. My microphone broke so this episode might sound a bit shit apologies. So you've recently been on a trip to the borders of Myanmar and areas around there.

You've been looking into the proliferation of 3D printed guns,

particularly J-stocks FGC 9, which are now in the hands of many Myanmar

rebels that are fighting the junta.

Can you tell us about that?

What's the situation? How many are there?

How prevalent is this?

Yeah, definitely I can.

So my insight into it is from one individual

who is part of obviously a network of individuals

who are taking part in the whole printing, the organizing. of the like from what we understand it's very prevalent they're an awful lot of them and then you've

shared a lot of videos of them being used right it's not at first we thought they would just

use just like a training or like a gun that you could drop or even potentially like

burn right on melt or have it be deniable but I think it's broader than that I

think that there's a huge number of these FGC-9s being created in different

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