The Popular 3D-Printed Gun Globalizing the Second Amendment
Designed by a German incel, the FGC-9 was created in a distinctly American spirit.
Does any firearm announce its ideology as explicitly—and profanely—as the FGC-9 semiautomatic? The “9” refers, in millimeters, to the diameter of its bullets, but the “FGC” stands for “F--- gun control.”
The exact manner by which the FGC-9 aspires to f--- gun control is built into its very existence: It’s a physible, a portmanteau from “physical” and “printable,” meaning the gun can be 3D-printed into being (or much of it, anyway). When its designer, going by the online handle JStark1809, published his detailed 110-page guide to building the FGC-9 in March 2020, he explained in a foreword that he’d been “frustrated by not being able to acquire and bear firearms because of regulations and tyrannical laws.” It was safe to assume that JStark1809 didn’t live in the US, where the legal purchase of guns is easier than in almost any other country in peacetime, and where guns can be 3D-printed legally in many states. The FGC-9 was for the rest of the world—so much so that its manual used the metric system.