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.