I've been going a little bit down the rabbit hole lately with the issues with gun YouTubers. It appears that the there is a widespread scam to get GI Bill dollars for some shitty correspondence course to teach gunsmithing - the Sonoran Desert Institute.
Here's a short summary of the issue, a 3 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljrxN8J63Bw
Here's one channel saying why they declined the SDI sponsorship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE6aZfjSOPA
If you want to go deeper into the problem, I'm working my way through this guy's content on the issues: Industry Sponsor Tier List: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOnUDQrnFps
The commercialism and military-industrial complex overproducing guns HAS to try to get you buy some niche purpose gun when you don't need more than one or two unless you're into hunting.
My take? Because everyone who is at least red-pilled on conspiracy theories shits on consumerism for Marvel superhero movies or terrible breakfast cereals or big pharma selling some drug to you...but it cuts deep when you realize the YouTubers you like for gun content, at least some of them, are no different than any other industry. They are in it for the $, then secondarily for the cause.
It's easy to cloak a shitty product, like PSA, by saying "we want guns to be cheap for the every day man, it's a pro-Second Amendment position, and if you disagree, you hate the constitution." See Floppyseconds comment down thread.
By all means, buy some guns. I have some that didn't get lost in a boating accident myself...but the whole gun culture 2.0 is getting wowwed into soyjack level purchases of new tactical shit all the time. Witness the 5.7 caliber, which is a glorified .22 magnum.
Operator larping gunfags decked out in tacticool gear head to toe has become equally as gay as blue haired libtards.
Own guns. They're fantastic tools.
They aren't a personality though.