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Rajan Basra, Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King's College London

‘Gun control is dead and we killed it’: unmasking the ‘lonely incel’ who designed the world’s most popular 3D-printed firearm

This anonymised image of FGC-9 creator 'JStark1809' was posted online with the gun's designs in 2020. JStark1809/Deterrence Dispensed via Wikimedia, CC BY-NC

Every year, on Easter Sunday, Irish republicans commemorate their martyrs, remembering lives lost during the 1916 Easter Rising and in the years since. Such events have a pattern: a street parade, speeches and flowers at the cemetery.

The 2022 commemoration, however, was unusual for the presence of four men wearing balaclavas and dressed all in black. They were members of the dissident republican paramilitary group Óglaigh na hÉireann (ÓNH).

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