Matthew Larosiere

Early Access: Ultimax 100 Review

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My Responses to British Journalism Questions

In case you guys were curious, a UK-based 3D printing journal wanted to get the opinion of a reputable expert for comment on the Chicago glock lawsuit, so they reached out to 3D Print General for comment.

3DPG, who I love dearly, then told them to "talk to the fuddbuster instead.

Here's how it went:

- What are your general thoughts about Chicago’s lawsuit against Glock? 

As a legal practitioner, I find Chicago’s suit interesting in the way it conflates provisions from different laws and jurisdictions in an attempt to manufacture a new type of liability that doesn’t exist. It is a fundamentally unserious lawsuit and will almost certainly be unsuccessful.

Note the suit isn’t predicated on any particular damages flowing from a particular Glock product, as would be required in, you know, a real lawsuit. Instead, it attempts to heap liability upon an Austrian gunmaker and two Chicago gunstores for a non-particularized purported injury to the city through third parties converting the firearms to fire automatically.

The premise of the suit appears to be that Chicago, and the gun control group helping with the suit, believe that Glock should be liable because they feel Glock firearms are “too easily” converted by third parties into fully automatic firearms.

Aside from the simple fact that something either is or is not a machinegun under the law, in reality, Glocks aren’t particularly easy to convert to fire automatically. This is manifest when one realizes how much engineering is spent in keeping self-loading firearms from firing automatically. Compared to the Glock, the UK’s old Browning L9A1and similar handguns were practically begging to fire automatically.

The real reason “Glock switches” are so common isn’t because Glock handguns are particularly easy to convert. It’s because Americans want to shoot fast, and Glock handguns are popular and available. If Walther or Browning had won police contracts across America, becoming the de-facto personal defense firearm those are likely what we’d see conversion devices for.

- If you disagree with the lawsuit, what alternative solutions would you propose to address the misuse of 3D printed gun components like auto sears?

The question presumes 3D printed components are a major or even significant contributor to the perceived harm. As a practitioner, it appears that far more machinegun conversion devices are surreptitiously imported than made on 3D printers.

Still, hasty policymaking is rarely good policymaking. Good policymaking comes after the harm to be addressed is identified, the question of “why” the harm is occurring is asked enough times to arrive at the core of the problem.

If the problem to be addressed is lethality, prevalence in crime, or other acute social harms, we must find out why the crimes are happening in the first place, and whether our proposed solution would address the harm we seek to prevent.

It doesn’t seem to me that regulating 3d printing or DIY firearms would have a significant impact on violent crime in America. The data suggests that most violent crime in America surrounds the nucleus of the drug war. Perhaps easing up on the war on drugs—which drugs have been winning for several decades now, despite the body count—might make the drug trade ever so slightly less violent.

- Do gun manufacturers like Glock have a responsibility to prevent the use of machine gun converters?

Legally? No. Machinegun conversion devices are machineguns in and of themselves and are regulated as such. Practically? It’s not really practicable to prevent. Mechanically speaking, self-loading firearms want to shoot automatically. Virtually any self-loading firearm that feeds from a magazine can be made to shoot automatically.

- In your view, are 3D printable auto sears protected by the Second Amendment?

Yes. The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all arms and accoutrement. While some more milquetoast gun owners invent terms of limitation, those cannot be gleamed from American legal texts, history, or tradition. Any limitation on the peaceable use of arms would have to flow from common law nuisance, and there isn’t really a rational argument to treat automatic weapons in and of themselves as being nuisances more than any other repeating firearm. They aren’t like explosives where nuisance-type harm necessarily flows from their use.

- How do you respond to the argument that 3D printed gun components contribute to public safety risks?

Every single action has attendant risks. A world without risks is one without love, profit, intrigue, success, or really anything fun. Restraints on human liberty for the purpose of security usually damage both liberty and security.

- Is legal action against gun manufacturers an effective way to address gun violence?

No. As discussed before, this lawsuit is in no way calculated to address or improve the situation with respect to violent crime at all, much less gun violence. On the contrary, the groups who orchestrate lawsuits targeting the firearms industry have a habit of losing these suits so fantastically that they wind up owing the defendants legal fees. They then leave the selected plaintiff, in this instance the City of Chicago—and in past instances the families of victims of violent criminals—with the bill. This has been referred to as “revictimizing the victims” and is frankly concerning.

- How might the 3D printed firearms landscape change if Chicago wins the lawsuit?

It likely would not at all. Glock and two all-but-random Chicago retailers are being sued because unknown third parties—in my opinion more often than not with imported parts—modified a gun.

Nobody who 3D printed anything would be materially impacted by a Chicago/Everytown win.

Early Access: Amerig a Mouser Gun

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I missed again. The bad news then the good news.

Hey guys. I missed TWIG again. I'm sorry, I've been on the road for three weeks straight because a lot of nonsense coincided this month. Family stuff, three legal deadlines, and duties to a couple gun industry clients. Thank you so much for bearing with me.

HOWEVER! I have good news. From my glorious patrons, I have managed to secure an editor (It's Vince). Ivan and I were able to get together to record a lot of new content, and Vince will be helping to edit them to get to y'all sooner.

With Vince's help, I'll be able to finally deliver more content to you guys while still doing the litigation work with your support. I'm super excited.

As a bribe/ごめんなさい, here is Ivan and I getting a regular gun to work properly.

I'm going to do a 50k (I guess 55k) subscriber special.

I think it would be fun if I shot 50 guns for 50k. Comment any model gun you'd like to see shot. The first 50 guns y'all post that I can get access to shoot, we'll do a lil' video. Plus it might be fun.

すみません For Delay, Excuse, & New Case

I'm really sorry, I had planned to have several things uploaded but had a move from hell, and still don't have my computerbox. My contador. My ordinateur. Also, a death in the family threw a massive wrench in the works.

For the moment, I'd super appreciate prayers for my grandmother as she crosses over, and for those of us still here on earth.

I'll be back soon, first with a fuddblasters then regular TWIG. It's promise.

Thank you so much for all your support. It's the fact that I have you all to fall back on that enables me to take legal cases from people who can't pay. Speaking of which, I just signed on to Patrick Adamiak'a appeal in the Fourth Circuit. It's because of y'all that I can do that.

A New Year, and What's Ahead

You guys have been absolutely amazing. Others in this space have gained huge numbers through clickbait and the like, but I can guarantee they don't have a community of patrons as supportive and engaging as y'all are. So thank you for keeping me to task and staying behind me.

I will be bringing back the core content most of you came for soon. specifically, after my wedding and the critical opening briefs in the Hoover appeal. That means, late January, I will have more time to go back to law-splaining and state-specific content.

Also exciting is that Ivan and I will be filming season 2 of fuddblasters. We've closely watched your comments and are making a few adjustments that I really hope you like.

As for patron-exclusive content, I've gotten a chest-mount camera thing so I can make some back-of-shop videos that I think y'all might like. I would love to hear from you, though, on what kind of exclusive content you'd like.

So, in short:

-Core content returning early 2024

-Fuddblasters season 2 coming shortly

-Patron-exclusive content in the works

-Y'all are the best and I love you.

Let's Do a Building

There's a few parts kits I've had laying around that I want to build, and I wanted to experiment with doing a headcam or something during the builds. These are the top options from a poll we did on the discord, so now it's up to y'all: What would you like to see me cobble together?

Thanks for Bearing With Me

As some of you know, I've been in a federal trial for a few days, and it's going to carry on for a couple weeks, so my posting is going to slow down. We'll be back up and running as soon as I'm back. Thank you guys so much for your support.

Guys wanna review my congressional testimony?

I've been hard at work given the several cases on my plate and now being invited to testify before Congress. I have to turn my written testimony in tomorrow, and would love input from y'all. Comment any suggestions. Love you.

Second Channel is Up - First Video

Thank you all so much for your support and guidance in deciding to start a second channel for my less law-focused discussions. I hope y'all enjoy this video, and I'd love to hear any feedback from you.

A very special video for special eyes only: Aks74u build walkthrough

https://utreon.com/v/hMuSx4LnRBW

There's the link! Thank you all so much for helping me get through a tough time. Don't forget to join the discord!

Discord link

I've gotten a few messages from y'all asking for the discord link. It is supposed to be managed through your patreon subscription, but if you *really* don't want to integrate discord with patreon, you can use this link and I will have to manually add your roles:

https://discord.gg/KzqZfCm6

I figured out what was happening with the discord.

Turns out there's a critical security flaw in the program when you stupidly leave a logged-in device with a person who develops malice towards you. Weird.

Anyway, it should be all good now. Sorry boys.

Big Personal Update

Y'all might have noticed I haven't uploaded in a bit. There's a very simple reason: I don't have a camera right now. As for why, well...

Most of you know I've had a day job at FPC for the last few years. After much reflection on my personal happiness, mental health, and the ultimate impact I want to have, I parted ways with the organization amicably.

A minor detail that I had forgotten was that my recording equipment was actually property of the organization. So I had to send everything back. With help from some of you wonderful guys on the discord, I selected a new camera and have been working on getting my recording setup back operational. I've got almost all the pieces in place now, and I hope to finally have better color balance.

The past couple weeks have been rough in a lot of respects. I am excited for what the future holds for me, and I have some projects I want to share with y'all, but leaving a long-term job feels a lot like a breakup.

For the time being, I'm on my own. Transitioning to self-employment has been stressful, but in some ways, I feel like a huge weight has been raised off my shoulders.

I've also been a huge proponent of being open about mental health. Especially in the gun community, I feel a lot of us conceal our internal struggles, perhaps out of fear our rights may be adversely affected if we were open. Sometimes those concerns are reasonable, to be sure. I have struggled with depression ever since law school. I'm able to perform exceptionally well when I have a clear goal and can make tangible progress, but major life changes have a way of throwing me into a severe funk. This has been one such event. To get through it, I have been leaning heavily on personal projects where I can get tangible progress, like gun building.

I'll be uploading videos from some of those builds for y'all while I continue to rebuild my set. It's complicated by the fact that I have multiple clients whose FFLs have been put in jeopardy by the "zero tolerance" policy, I am finding myself having to travel more often than I would like to fight to keep these places in business and/or my criminal clients free from government cages.

tl;dr: I'm not with FPC anymore, I'm rebuilding my set, and I expect soon the time I gain from ending that relationship will allow me to produce content for Fuddbusters more regularly.

Thank you guys for being such incredible supporters and for believing in me. I am humbled and often feel I don't deserve it.

With love,
Matt

Another Patron Content: Regular Shotgun Time

Here you go.

The MAStrosity Pt1: Teardown

I love you guys. I really enjoyed putting this little vid together, I hope you guys enjoy it.  https://utreon.com/v/ZpY1YdtETje

Exclusive: Do you wanna see me make things?

Patron Only: Armory Tour

I miss y'all and you'll be seeing big projects that have been taking a while to cook in the background. For now, I will share my trash with you.

Moving sucks

I expected to have a couple more videos up by now, but it is taking longer than I expected to get my studio set up here. The next couple uploads will be Colorado, a talk I will be giving in Arizona about the First Amendment and how it relates to instructions. I don't think it will be long, but I always like to let you guys know what's going on when it's more than a week between uploads. Thank you all so so much for bearing with me.

Early Access: Patents

Hope y'all enjoy this. It will go live on Wednesday. This is one of the topics I've been wanting to cover more broadly for quite some time, and I'm excited to hear your feedback. It is a slight departure, but I really wanted to get some info out.

New state video coming next! I'm doing the final part of my move tomorrow, and setting up in the new place with better lighting, etc.

Thank you so much!

You guys are amazing. I never thought so quickly that I'd be a finalist at an awards show, but y'all got me sent to the Gundies! I had a really great experience, and clipped together a video of some of what went on.

As for my excuses: Between a gun rights case I've been fighting, and moving to a new location, it's been extremely tough. I've got good stuff in the pipeline, though, and have some processes in place that will help me create more videos at a more regular pace. My goal is two per week, and I think once this move is completed, I'll be able to do that.

Updoodle

Hey all! Long time no see.

As some of you are aware, I've taken on a fairly significant case that has been tugging at me. Plus the fact that I'm moving cities, it's been a struggle working on videos. That said, I have an update video coming out in the coming days covering several of the rumblings you've been hearing about the ATF.

Following that, there's of course completing California and another interview-style video, this time covering the development of the TAC-9 pistol.

Thank you so much for bearing with me through this. You guys truly are amazing and the biggest push keeping me going!

Someone has offered to help me with research and scripting for future videos, and I am very excited to get that started! Hopefully that will help us create even more content!

The Coming Episodes Are Taking Ages

So I've been busting my butt on the California and AA-12 videos, and they're taking ages.

As for the California video, would y'all prefer I release it as a 3-parter, or just wait to have it all tucked into one video, which would be over an hour long?

Just the first two sections of the California script are already twice as long as any state episode I've done, and of course I've had to read a numbing amount of law. I expected it would be rough, but not this rough.

An Update and a Merry Christmas - What's Next?

Howdy friends, good to see you here.

If you've noticed I've been quiet, it's because I'm working on two very big projects.

For one, the next state is California. I read all the laws and check up on caselaw for each of the state series. I'm sure it's not a huge surprise when I say that California has been the most arduous and terrible slog yet. It's gonna be a long video, and I hope you all will enjoy it!

For two, I've spent a good bit of time leading up to Christmas working with Sol Invictus here in Florida to cover the story of the AA12.

The AA12 is one of the most fascinating cases of ATF machinegun tomfoolery, and I'm lucky enough to have a relationship with one of the companies at the center of it.

I recorded two hours of interview talking about the backstory behind of the gun, and it turned out to be full of way more twists and turns than I thought! It's a story ripe with backstabbing, sleight of hand, and the most interesting case of ATF bludgeoning we've seen yet.

I was able to convince them to let me fire the one and only AA12 still in existence, so here's a clip for you guys to help tide you over for the coming content.

Extra Bonus Nonsense: I play with a weird sheengun

I like it a lot.

What's on the wall? 11/19/21

Early Access: Almost Good - Missouri's 2A Sanctuary Law

I'm honestly super stoked about this one as civil penalties for sanctuary violations are something I've been begging for for over four years.

Early Access: Alaska

Here you are friends, the ice box. The frosted north. It will be premiering tomorrow afternoon, but y'all get it now. Horray!

These take quite a bit more research than I originally expected, so it's going to be a lot of work. I expect it will be worth it, though!

I'd love feedback from y'all as to whether I should push forward with these unless something more urgent comes up in the news, or mix them in with our more usual content.

Early Access: Grading State Gun Law - Alabama