Americans who have rushed to the new CCP-controlled social media app Xiaohongshu (aka RedNote) in the wake of a looming TikTok ban are teaching the app’s Chinese users how to 3D print guns.
After news circulated that the U.S. Supreme Court was set to uphold a ban on the popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok (which it voted to do Friday), so-called “TikTok refugees” flocked to RedNote, a Chinese-language social media video app.
While some, like former Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz, embraced the communist state in their move to the new platform, others have used it to spread America’s values of freedom and independence to a historically oppressed Chinese populous. (RELATED: Elie Honig Lays Out How Trump Could ‘Buy Some Time’ Before TikTok Ban)
A score of Americans whipped out their weapons and posted shooting clips, while others showed videos of them 3D printing firearms and shared instructions for their Chinese counterparts on how to follow suit.
“This is how we do it in the USA,” user Brad PrintZ captioned a video of him shooting a colorful weapon he described as a Decker 380. In the comments he shared information for the Black Lotus Coalition, a website that shares blueprints for 3D printed and ghost guns.
Another social media user told followers on X that “Americans have a moral obligation to download RedNote and show the Chinese how to build unserialized ghost guns.”
The same user, yzy, posted an exchange with what appeared to be a Chinese citizen showing instructions on how to bypass Chinese firewalls to access websites with instructions on how to 3D print firearms.
— yzy (@yzy_is_who) January 16, 2025
Yzy claimed the app flagged and removed one of his videos for illegal content.
They have removed one of my videos already.
I just appealed it. In Chinese.
I don’t speak Chinese.
2025 is great. https://t.co/qC9CmSlo9k pic.twitter.com/xKG5snKPXp
— yzy (@yzy_is_who) January 15, 2025
China has strict laws against gun ownership. Only police, security personnel and a select number of hunters and sports shooters are permitted to own a firearm, according to CNN. Despite their stringent laws, however, China is a key source for Americans importing silencers and switches, a component that alters semiautomatic pistols into fully automatic machineguns, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
