'Another image of a 3d printed gun being used by a Myanmar rebel.';

'Also here's an image from a recent New York Times article that I thought goes hard.';

'But Joe Biden said they can't do that without F-15 fighter jets. Someone should tell them.';

'Formerly burma';

'It's really fucking funny how the junta had full Chinese support and then as an appreciation they started kidnapping Chinese citizens in the border for human trafficking.

Truly 30D chess.';

'>>61464889
That goes hard as fuck';

'>>61465134
>fucking funny how the junta had
The MNDAA is a thinky veioed front of the PLA and MSS fighting against the the Junta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_National_Democratic_Alliance_Army';

'QRD on this conflict?';

'>>61465167
Didn't China changed their support for them or they were supporting both?';

'>>61465174
Its a fucking mess. Myanmar has a lot of different groups divided along ethnic, political and nationalistic lines. They had a government until the military overthrew it a few years back and put a junta in charge. A bunch of those groups decided to rebel. At first it was low intensity but in the last year or so its picked up a lot more and the Junta has lost a lot of ground. Nobody is sure what's going to happen because the "rebels" aren't a cohesive group.';

'>>61465185
The Chinese know they have the Junta by the balls and are able to be the major source of support while simultaneously raping them. The Chinese are very duplicitous.';

'>>61465174
It's one of the longest currently still active conflicts on Earth and there's no tl;dr for it.
Shit had been hitting the fan for decades before the Vietnam War even happened.';

'>>61465134
>>61465167
>>61465167
Long story short,
>Region ran by grp that supports China
>Junta is also backed by China
>Region leader got overthrown by his lackeys
>Overthrown leader's son became rebel
>New Region leader starts their BS, gives money to Junta
>Junta turns a blind eye to what they doing, thinking China can't do shit since they need them to keep the gas flowing
>China went Fuck this, threw support for overthrown leader's son Rebel grp
>SHTF
>Grp gains ground
>Suddenly rest of the Rebel grps joined in the party
>China some what lost control if their backed grp
>Every Rebel grp want a piece of the Junta's ass
>China found out the Train had no brakes.';

'>>61465276
i read that 3x and got more confused each time

but its not you, its me

are Muslims involved and on WTF side and is our failed rock star turned Sec of State Blinken staying away from this one

"Blinken last year postponed a trip to Thailand, the oldest U.S. ally in Asia, after halting a regional tour when a COVID-19 case was found in the press corps accompanying him."

LMAO! I'd bet every Blinken "press corps" going on foreign junkets is riddled with AIDS and GRIDS, butt thats not slowing anyone down.';

'>hire as smuggler with yacht
>sail to nearest gun friendly countries like philippines
>buy boatload of guns through flips
>sail back
why don't they do this?';

'>>61465185
NEVER trust the eternal chinaman
no such thing as an ally if there is a benefit to fucking someone over
can't blame them with myanmar though, the junta is downright incompetent and stupid';

'>>61465428
Most groups are cash short and cannot peddle their merchandise stock very far for trade or sale. Myanmar is a fairly geographically large country by comparison with Europe for example, and the infrastructure sucks and infrastructure is one of the first points of control/contestation in conflicts. I would imagine it being easier to source old commie guns floating around in Vietnam and Thailand.';

'>>61465446
Not to mention they have to cross two whole seas and the world's busiest strait just for a bunch of guns. Just get them from the local region.';

'>>61465406
The Muslims there were being screwed over by the Junta for decades.
Thailand don't wanna get involved, since if Maynamar goes boom, guess where the Chinese money is going?';

'>>61465428
Anon, like >>61465446 said they mostly get their stuff from Thailand. Or China.
China back in the 70s and 80s have a province that makes blackmarket guns. Not those shit tier grade ones but cpose to 1:1 copies.
Took the government, with the help of Vets from the Sino Vietnam war to stomp them out.';

'>>61464877
It's really amazing to see how fast 3D printing technology has progressed in recent years. By 2030, it will have probably reached the point where the technology has made traditional gun control laws obsolete.';

'>>61466388
Heres the kicker, Anon.
Traditional gunmakers gonna lobby for 3D printing bans.';

'They couldn't have at least gotten some surplus mosins from one of the many former communist countries around them that were supplied with hundreds of thousands of the damn things? They really have to use flintlocks?';

'>>61465276
Should become the plot and setting of a new Far Cry game.';

'>>61466388
>it will have probably reached the point where the technology has made traditional gun control laws obsolete.
They'll never stop trying. Have you not noticed the amount ghost gun laws that tons of states are passing, making it a felony for you to print out a lower receiver. If anything, the laws are getting worse where they're already bad as gun controlfags piss and shid themselves.

>>61466421
>Traditional gunmakers gonna lobby for 3D printing bans.
I think you'll somewhat see that, but I think you'll also see some manufacturers embrace parts kits (and raise the price of gun parts in the process) as they navigate the new market. However, gun distributors and stores are the ones that are probably shaking in their boots and would push for that kind of legislation.';

'How long does the junta realistically have left at this point?

According to the most recent maps, it looks like the rebels are on the verge of effectively bisecting the country and corralling junta forces into ever-shrinking pockets. Casualties have also been staggering, with as many as 1/3rd of the junta's pre-war soldiers already dead, wounded, or captured.';

'>>61466581
BROWN';

'>>61466421
It's meaningless unless you ban all 3d printers, which is never going to happen.';

'>>61465174
>unstable post-British Empire state with way too many ethnic groups suffers government collapses and coups for half a century
>some sort of semi-democracy eventually allowed to form (with the military guaranteed a certain % of seats and various special privileges)
>military starts genociding its ethnic enemies again to much international shock, democracy leaders blamed for doing nothing (because they'd just get arrested or couped)
>military loses badly in elections, rejects result, arrests opposition leaders
>ethnic groups fucking done with playing democracy, also now pissed off enough at army to actually ally against it';

'Screw Ukraine, I'd go to Burma and fight the Junta (die of malaria).';

'>>61466463
End of the year hopefully. Gaza and Ukraine get all the spotlights but the violence in Myanmar is fucking horrendous at this point. I find it interesting the country is like 99.999% Buddhist yet that doesn't seem to mean anything to either side. Anyone know if temples and stuff are somehow protected from all the mess or are we at a point where they're considered fair game?';

'>>61466687
>ethnic groups fucking done with playing democracy, also now pissed off enough at army to actually ally against it
Could this work to a point we get another Singapore? i.e. ethnic groups more or less living in peace due to economic development (read: Foregin capital/investements)?';

'>>61466789
NTA, but I don't see it. Singapore's peaceful breakaway from malaysia is unique in modern history. Many rare factors aligned to make it happen.';

'>>61466696
They lost their Chinese support after being hilariously retarded.
China now semi-supports one of the rebel groups.';

'>>61466463
The junta still has an iron grip on the Bamar heartlands and the incoming monsoon season will make large scale campaigns difficult, Don't be surprised to see them survive for another year or two.';

'>>61464877
Is there a name for this kind of aesthetic where old world stuff and new world stuff interacts? Like shooting down drones with maxim guns';

'>>61464877
This war is basically a Farcry game irl';

'>>61466463
There's maps of this shitshow? New to this theater';

'>>61464877
I wish the burma war was given more attention on this board, rebels innawoods fighting despotic mercenaries with 3D printed guns is pure /k/ino.';

'>>61465174
Its like Avatar, but with 50 different groups of blue people.';

'>>61465134
Playing the long con in regards to “nation building.”
>oi, hey, we got these chinks Uncle Sam, throw us a bone and legitimize our government, we’re totally demoncratic
>yeah, democratic, that’s what I said
More power to them, I say.';

'>>61464889
Why are god's prettiest countries his most wartorn shitholes';

'>>61470844
Let me tell you about a country called "Cambodia"...';

'>>61470809
And they all have guns.';

'>>61470809
And the blue people are using industry 4.0 to fight rather than hope wildlife will somehow save them.';

'>>61470809
avatar 2 had green blue people';

'>>61470793
You can't because the junta is pro russian and the rebels are kicking theur starving asses, it would be too much of a humiliation for the jeets here';

'>>61464877
I havent seen any in the current conflict, but you used to see myanmar/burmese police with martini-henry based greener shotguns.';

'>>61472401';

'>>61465428
Myanmar is one of the poorest countries and earth. They can’t afford that';

'>>61470741
Here's the latest map.';

'There was a recent NYTimes article which had some cool photos.';

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'>>61464877
>If only the Red China backed Junta had F-16s and nukes.';

'The tallies on the guy's back here are apparently the people he's lost under his command.
>Tattooed on his back is a partial record of the battlefield’s toll: tally marks in bundles of five, each representing a life lost. The lines stretch over his left shoulder, but he stopped adding them last May, before the militia’s biggest offensives. In the assault on Loikaw late last year, at least 150 soldiers died, one K.N.D.F. leader said. Another counted the number at double that.';

'>>61466366
>The Muslims there were being screwed over by the Junta for decades.

It's a dhimmi or be dhimmi'd world, native buddhists ought to be keeping out trans-Abrahamist colonizer religions.';

'>>61472548
how much of that is rural and urban?';

'>>61464877
The days of these rebel groups armed with 3d printed, and self-produced weapons are largely over. As various rebel groups keep making large-scale captures of weapons and munitions from the regime.

They are still ragtag, and outfitted with airsoft-tier gear from china, but they are considerably better than what they were.';

'>>61472589
whoa is that bang from batman';

'>>61473650

It was honestly wild seeing them progress from assassinating police and small guard posts, to rolling through outposts, to taking territory.';

'>>61464877
>UCP
Lmao what a bunch of retards';

'>>61472548
Christ I didn’t realise that the Junta was this fucked';

'>>61472548
Are Yangon and Mandalay actually both contested now? Because Naypyidaw is a new regime-built 'capitol' in the middle of the jungle, so even if the regime keep a hold of it years I'd expect international recognition to rapidly fall behind the resistance if they manage to take the traditional capitol of Yangon.';

'>>61472548
>>61472602
>>61474311
That map is garbage, the junta still controls many urban areas in the blue regions. Pic related is a much better map.

>>61474529
No Yangon and Mandalay are completely controlled by the junta, although there may be some low level urban guerillas which don't really do much. Naypyidaw on the other hand is in resistance drone range and was attacked once or twice, possibly wounding the 2nd in command of the junta.';

'>>61466440
FAR CRY HASNT BEEN GOOD SINCE THE MERC CONTRACTED MALARIA';

'>>61473650
That is ultimately the use-case of self produced weapons. If you're doing it right, you only need them at the start.';

'>>61472401
>>61472408
How common is the use of shotguns by rebels/junta soldiers?';

'>>61470844
>Your my greatest warlord';

'>>61464889
I want to play whatever Farcry this is.';

'>>61479595
this . only rear units and women get the 3d printed guns now';

'>>61473650
>The days of these rebel groups armed with 3d printed, and self-produced weapons are largely over. As various rebel groups keep making large-scale captures of weapons and munitions from the regime.

Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Obviously an FCG-9 is a lot better than nothing but it's not ideal. I seem to see them in the hands of rebels quite a bit still. Some of the up modded variants of those guns are insane. I'm told that in poorer parts of the country without 3D printing, people are downloading the plans on cellphones and crudely casting the parts out of sand molds. Jstark would be so proud.';

'>>61467288
Chief to Singapore's economic stability is its strategic trade location in the Malacca Strait. It has virtually no natural resources, so even though it has a very large and capable military for its size it's really a deterrent force because it's not in anyone's interest to start a war, and they still depend on us Malaysians for some natural resources, chiefly water. In turn, Malaysians aren't great at warfare (we're pretty lazy and it's a lot of work) nor do we really seek it out or have the equipment. Indonesians are maybe a bit more expansionist (at least historically) but they also ultimately realize it's not in anyone's interest. We generally view the Singaporeans in the same way as western countries probably view one another, having many shared goals and cultural ties. Although they have admirably expunged religion from their governance. Sadly the same has not happened here.

Unfortunately I don't see a similar situation unfolding in Myanmar. The economic, cultural, and historical dynamics are completely different. Especially when you're talking about tribal groups that have probably called the same village home for hundreds of years and didn't even have the concept of any allegiance beyond their small regional territory until relatively recently, if at all. It's closer to the cultural situation in Afghanistan or one of those internally divided African countries. There is no greater colonial overseer to stabilize the transition of power and decolonization like the US and Britain did for Malaysia/Singapore/Indonesia. China couldn't give less of a shit beyond their economic return on investment. I really do hope for a rehabilitated, united, democratic Myanmar, but I don't see it happening in our lifetimes, and then only after a river of innocent blood is spilled.';

'The situation as of last week. Not looking great for the junta.';

'>>61464877
>COVID 19 MASKS
That shit is DEADLY!';

'>>61470973
Pluto is still a planet and Cambodia is still a country.';

'>>61477410
Correct. Far Cry 2 was the only good one.';

'>>61479706
>How common is the use of shotguns by rebels/junta soldiers?
Common enough throughout history that the Brits deliberately sabotaged their police shotguns by making those Greeners. The Colonial police versions use a proprietary shell -- a blackpowder 12-gauge brass shell, necked to 14g after an inch, with a hidden cardboard spacer in the 12g portion to keep shot from getting under the shoulder. It also has a pocket around the primer and a corresponding set of prongs on the firing pin that will physically block it from firing standard 12g ammo unless you but them off. Then they did an autistic ammo registration and issue system for anyone who had the guns. There's a reason the rebels and cops stopped using them when things hotted up.

If you have a modern reloading setup and can get ahold of 12g all-brass 2.75" shells it's relatively easy to rig up the jigs to load it. But goddamn is it a pain in the ass.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/britishmilitariaforums/greener-police-mkiii-loads-t24372.html <- the thread where I learned how to reload the damned things instead of spending 800cpr on antique ammo.

>tfw the Greener GP in standard 12g is one of my dream guns and nobody has anything but Mk3s.';

'>>61466366
Most of the Muslims are jeets the British literally imported into Burma as slave wagies.';

'>>61465428
They get their Glock barrels for their FGC-9s the Philippines, when they don't do homebrew pipe barrels. There was an interview with one of the rebels building them a few years back.';

'>>61464877
Butane powered PVC pellet rifles from the early days of the rebellion.';

'>>61470844
Beauty motivates men to fight, which is why the jews want to make the world as ugly as possible.';

'>>61466421
>3D printing bans
Linear rails, control boards and extruders can be easily sourced.
Trying to ban 3d printing would be like trying to ban RC cars, there's already so many components out there or the way to repurpose components into doing what you want that it's not gonna gonna make a dent in homebrew gun manufacturing.';

'>>61466388
>It's really amazing to see how fast 3D printing technology has progressed in recent years. By 2030, it will have probably reached the point where the technology has made traditional gun control laws
you have no idea what you are talking about, literally no clue. You need a metal barrel, firing pin, bolt extractor, magazine spring trigger spring etc. If you have those, then 3d printing i your worst option for the rest.
>>61464877
This looks staged/wrong. The actual fighting Burmese resistance groups are quite tough and serious opposition, the back lineup there have never been in a fight and it shows.';

'>>61482580
>The actual fighting Burmese resistance groups are quite tough and serious opposition
e.g
pic
Members of the Karenni Army take part in a graduation ceremony for military trainees in October 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karenni_Army

t.knower';

'>>61482596
>>The actual fighting Burmese resistance groups are quite tough and serious opposition
another group
pic Arakan Army troops pose with arms, ammunition and military trucks seized from the junta in Myebon Township

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arakan_Army';

'>>61482643
>pic Arakan Army troops pose with arms, ammunition and military trucks seized from the junta in Myebon Township';

'>>61466789
No, Burma’s situation is unique in that the various ethnic militia groups and the anti-junta rebels are now pushing for a truly federal constitution with no military involvement in the government. It’s very interesting and its highly likely the country stays intact after the war finishes.';

'>>61472585';

'>>61470741
the list of belligerents on the Wikipedia page is kinda funny. The entire list on the rebel side doesnt fit on my laptop screen(arguably not a large screen but still)
favorite group name is "Karen National Liberation Army"';

'>>61470844
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_armed_organisations_in_Myanmar
ethnic cauldron';

'>>61464889
looks like something out of borderlands.';

'>>61466663
They banned distilling alcohol too, even though it only takes a barrel, some pipes and a bucket of rotting fruit. You don't understand how badly big copros want to protect their monopolies. They always say dishonest shit like 'oh we just want to make sure that unsafe product are off the streets', but what they actually mean is that 'I don't want you taking customers from me, so I'll use my massive wealth to pressure politicians to make you stop'. You can bet your ass once 3D printing gun parts becomes mainstream, gun manufacturing titans will start lobbying and do everything they can to make it illegal. Of course they can't make 3D printing go away the same way how they couldn't make weed disappear before it was legal, but as soon as you grow too big and start to threaten their income, they will strike you down. The only reason why 3D printing is still okay is because not too many people are into it and the technology is still in it's infant stage.';

'>>61484528
>They banned distilling alcohol too, even though it only takes a barrel, some pipes and a bucket of rotting fruit
That's a great example of it not working.';

'>>61472548
>>61477336
>>61480659

Jesus Christ, the juntaniggers' situation is even worse than I thought. The country's already been effectively bisected in several places.';

'>>61481963
what kinda muzzle energy did those things get? maybe like a paintball gun?';

'So if the junta overthrew the actual government wouldn't that make the rebels counter-revolutionaries?';

'>>61465276
I remember an anon mentioning in another thread that some of the Chinese in the scam centers were actually undercover MSS agents. And then one day, a whole bunch of the prisoners attempted an escape, and said prisoners got massacred by the guards. Including the MSS agents. Whoops.';

'>>61479706
For the rebels, very common. It's basically your default weapon as bulding a function break action shotgun is easy as fuck. You only need, what? Couple of steel tube, scrap wood, nails, pieces of metal spring and other fittings to make a working shotgun';

'>>61487254
The junta's been the government for a pretty long time.';

'>>61487254
That would imply that the coup is a revolution but the military already had massive influence over the government and outright controlled it before the 2010s.
>>61487842
Yeah but the scam centers aren't directly controlled by the military but rather junta-affiliated ethnic militias';

'>>61483283
I like the arakan army (kayin state)'s flag';

'>>61472548
>>61477336
>>61480659
Yeah. This is giving me serious Afghanistan vibes in the last couple years before Kabul fell.';