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Myanmar: Printing the Revolution, Part Three

It Could Happen Here

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The Military's Guns Are Excellent

When thousands of young people in mianmar decided to take up arms against the government, theyre just weren't enough guns to go around. So these jinze militants began their fighting careers with 22 caliber rifles. They were massively outgunned, but determined to fight on with the weapons they could make and buy on the black market until they could find something better. Unlike their guerilla warfare instructors, these kids had grown pon the innernet, rather than the jungle, so they knew that if it exists, there's a sub redet for it. It was the innernet that came to their rescue.

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