Plastic Paramilitaries: Irish Insurgents Print Their Own 3D Guns

by James Parker

Northern Ireland’s paramilitary underworld is learning to fight with the tools of the digital age, and these tools are becoming more sophisticated and accessible. 

As a crowd gathered in Belfast to commemorate Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising, something new made an appearance in the arsenal of Northern Ireland’s paramilitaries. A member of Óglaigh na hÉireann (ÓNH), an insurgent splinter group, stood flanked by two masked figures. On that day in 2022 in Milltown Cemetery...