Brace for the Arglebargle...

The laws surrounding the manufacture and sale of firearms, or even of what is and isn't a firearm in the first place, are complicated enough that event the majority of gun owners aren't familiar with even a fraction of them. (Remember that if you would list "guns" or "shooting" as one of your hobbies or interests, that alone puts you in a minority subset of people who own firearms.)

When I saw the video of the dude capping the UnitedHealthcare CEO, like Ian over at Forgotten Weapons I knew it wasn't (like idiot spokespeople at the NYPD claimed) a B&T VP9.

At the time, I remember hoping that it was at least a factory clone and not an 80% kit build or a 3D-printed frame because that would unleash a tidal wave of stupid from the sort of people who not only know nothing about guns or gun laws, but also don't like them very much.

And here we are...

At first glance, the gun in the police photographs — the one the authorities believe Luigi Mangione used to kill the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare — appears to be a Glock-19, a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol used by military forces, police officers, civilians and criminals all over the world.

But upon closer inspection, it is clear that the weapon was not factory-made, but was at least partially produced by a 3D printer. The giveaways are subtle: The Glock logo is absent from the pistol’s grip, where it would ordinarily be imprinted, and the angle of the grip is peculiar. Indentations on the grip, known as stippling, are patterned in such a way that the gun’s “fingerprint” can be directly linked to a unique free-to-download 3D-printed design known as the FMDA 19.2 Chairmanwon Remix.

In the first sentence I'm already annoyed by the hyphen in "Glock-19" and it doesn't get much better from there.