The Redwood Gun Guy

Introduction: Media and politics have become more intertwined than ever. Add some corporate greed to the mix and you have a three-headed apparatus that blends "news" and information, business and money, and political games all broadcast live into your living room at the flick of a switch. There is so much money and influence floating around in all mainstream media that it makes it impossible to fully trust anything you hear. Newer technologies, like social media and the internet as a whole, have only exasperated the problem. Media companies can tweet out an inflammatory headline, only to correct themselves in the replies and  leave the original, misleading post intact. This has made grassroots, independent media more important than ever before, especially for people that are pro-2nd amendment. I'm going to go a bit into some of the issues that I see with mainstream media corporations, some changes that you can make to negate these issues, and lastly, provide you some of m

Source Introduction: The world of DIY gunsmithing has exploded in the past few years. Born out of ever-expanding gun control legislation, the ability of the people to build their own somewhat-effective firearms outside of government control has become an entire wing of the firearms community. This has evolved from rudimentary slam-fire pipe shotguns and single shot pistols, to 3D printed AR-15 lower receivers and pistol caliber carbines that use no regulated parts at all. In some ways, 3D printed firearms and so-called "ghost guns" function as a middle finger to the government. Groups, both centralized and decentralized, have popped up across the internet with one common mission, to render gun control obsolete.  Details: Defense Distributed: This project really was catapulted into the mainstream by Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed. Now, Cody Wilson definitely has a questionable past, but his work on Defense Distributed paved the way for boatloads of innovation in the 3D Pr