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🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Introducing Hit Print for War from Things That Go Boom.

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If you live in the US, 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 of 2020, anyone with access to a cheap second-hand 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.

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0:00.0	When the first pictures of the United Healthcare CEO shooter were released, the internet went nuts.
0:07.2	Some people on TikTok, YouTube, X, Instagram, and Reddit swooned over his dark eyebrows and long lashes.
0:14.6	Oh my God, is he fucking hot?
0:16.9	Others celebrated the killing of a man responsible for denying more people claims than any other insurer in the country to maximize shareholders' profits.
0:26.0	Thank you for sacrificing your entire life for a message.
0:30.2	He took a stand on the side of good.
0:33.0	And while some commentators were shocked and horrified that people were celebrating, they're applauding.
0:38.5	Many clutched their pearls.
0:40.1	I'm sorry, one wrote.
0:41.8	Prior authorization is required for thoughts and prayers.
0:47.0	But besides the eyelash aficionado and health care justice crowd,
0:51.8	there was another part of the internet that was a buzz.
0:55.0	Because even from that grainy video the police released, members of certain specialized forums
1:01.0	correctly identified the weapon as a Glock-style ghost gun that was in part 3D printed.
1:09.1	I'm Lacey Healy, and today on Things the Go Boom, we take a deep dive into the terrifying world of 3D printed guns.
1:18.3	And we ask, are we wrong to be scared?
1:25.3	Every day we're bombarded with soundbite, social media posts, and headlines that barely scratched the surface.
1:32.3	What if instead of taking in all that noise, we took a breath and took time to deeply understand our world?
1:39.7	I'm Chris Boyd, host of Think.
1:41.3	That is what we do every day on the show when I talk with guests about
1:44.9	scientific discoveries, political issues, and more to learn why things are the way they are.
1:50.7	Join us. Who knows what you might learn. So, okay, let's start with the basics. What does a 3D
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