A couple of days ago, I wrote a story about a man in the UK who was arrested and charged with terrorism-related offenses simply because he had the recipe for gunpowder. While the story doesn't explicitly say exactly which recipe he had, it was probably black powder, which is actually a pretty simple concoction.
But just possessing the recipe may well land this man in prison, all for a bit of information written on a piece of paper.
Now, this is in the UK, not the United States, but some here want to try and prohibit people from even possessing bits of information that they deem dangerous. It's a major issue that we're going to be fighting about for decades to come, I suspect.
But as for the whole thing in the UK, the National Association for Gun Rights had the best possible response to the story I wrote.
Oops we dropped this: https://t.co/dC97vRzIQa pic.twitter.com/KMU3dnWYXS
— National Association for Gun Rights (@NatlGunRights) November 5, 2025
Perfection.
My response on X was simply, "F***ing based."
That's because it was.
Now, keep in mind that X is a social media platform that is accessible across the so-called free world, and even in other countries that aren't as free, there are still ways to get access to the service.
Kind of like how Google is available almost everywhere on the planet.
Via these sources, this information is always accessible to someone if they care to look hard enough for it. That means the recipe for black powder is just there. People can get it from the NAGR post, from some book about the history of firearms, from a blog post on some obscure website, or a million other places.
And the UK is charging a guy for possessing it on a piece of paper?
Likewise, if someone knows where to find a 3D printer file for a gun of some kind, such as the FGC-9 or a variant, then they can print a gun. The idea of penalizing people who have these files, but have done nothing with them, is idiotic to the extreme, and while I can't confirm that, I think that's part of what NAGR was kind of trying to prove here.
Anyone can get this information via the internet, which was billed in the early days as the "information superhighway."
Because of that, their response to the piece is absolute perfection. No, that's not because they made a funny about something I wrote that I happen to agree with, though that doesn't hurt. It's because it illustrates so many points so easily that it's impossible to ignore just how stupid the UK is being in this case, and how states that do similar things with 3D printer files for guns and accessories are just as idiotic.
I have to applaud NAGR for this one.
Whether they intended it to have all the layers I'm seeing or not is irrelevant. If it's just trolling stupid UK laws and nothing more, it doesn't matter. It's still perfection, and I have to acknowledge this one.
Normally, it's the Firearms Policy Coalition making me laugh on X with their takes, but NAGR gets the win here.
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