Last week while away in Finland to help exhibit an advanced firearms training system I received 65 emails like this one all at once. YouTube had deleted 65 GBGuns videos en masse. They were removed for being "Content that facilitates the sale of certain regulated goods, like firearms, ammunition, or prohibited firearm accessories..."
It doesn't take a 5-year old to understand that GBGuns doesn't sell ANYTHING. We don't even sell T-shirts. This attack is obviously meant to suppress information about the safe and ethical use of firearms because the less people know about them, the more afraid of them they will be or more likely they are to hurt themselves; building and supporting the unraveling of our birth rights.
There was an appeal option that required 6 clicks per video and some typing.
While powering my laptop from a battery boost pack in the hotel I spent over an hour individually appealing each video removal before heading to breakfast. By the time the elevator had me at breakfast my phone was blowing up with all 65 responses.
What Was Lost?
65 videos and over 1,500,000 views were lost from the channel. As a creator this means a loss of momentum which the algorithm uses to gauge how future videos will be pushed; ie. if you'll see the videos or not in your feed.
Some of these videos were the only one of their type produced by a trained shooter who approaches videos with a balanced journalistic style.
Some of these videos were the first on the subject, as early as a year before any other channel showed the same thing.
Some of these videos are of now-discontinued guns or companies that have ceased to exist and served as historical reference.
Some of these videos were roundups that could only be completed after reviewing each individual piece included in them.
All of these videos were syndicated in one way or another meaning they were posted here or on other websites for reference and are now broken links scattered around the internet on news and manufacturer websites.
A List of videos deleted by YouTube:
Adams Arms AA 19 Shooting Impressions |
Ammo Shipment! |
Ammo Squared Update and Coupon |
AR Chassis? Springfield Saint Edge ATC Writer Ride Along |
Are Single Stack 9s Dead? |
Arex Zero 2S Shooting Impressions |
Arex Zero 2S Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
ATI AHSS FXS 9 Shooting Impreeions |
ATI AHSS FXS 9 Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
BRG USA BRG9 Elite Shooting Impressions |
BRG USA BRG9 Elite Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
Calling All AR Users! RMT Triggers Nomad Solution |
Canik Rival SFX Dark Side Shooting Impressions |
Canik Rival SFX Dark Side Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
Century Arms BFT47 Core Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
Creating an Ammo Bank Account |
DRD Tactical Aptus Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
EAA Girsan MC9 Shooting Impressions |
FN 509 Midsize Shooting Impressions |
FN 509 Midsize Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
FN High Power Shooting Impressions |
Get Cheaper Ammo! Ammo Squared |
Grand Power P40L 10mm Shooting Impressions |
Grand Power P40L 10mm Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
Grand Power Stribog SP9A3 Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
Grand Power Stribog SP9A3S Shooting Impressions |
How I get Ammo: Ammo Squared Spring 2018 Shipment |
How to Clean A Pistol (Buddy Tec's Fault) Grand Power K100 X-Trim Example |
Icarus Precision Equipped Sig P365XL Range Test |
Icarus Precision Sig P365XL Teya's Quick Take |
Inside Icarus Precision |
Lakeline LLC Ported Taurus GX4 Barrel |
Lionheart Regulus Alpha Blackout Shooting Impressions |
MeCanik MO1 Micro Red Dot |
Meta Tactical Apex Glock Carbin Bullpup Conversion Shooting Impressions |
Meta Tactical Apex Glock Carbine Conversion Tabletop Video |
New FN High Power Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
New Lionheart Industries Regulus Alpha Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
PINEWORLD K5 Should You Have a Safe? |
PSA Dagger Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
PTR 32 HK 32 Clone Tabletop Peek |
Red Dot Considerations |
Romanian Surplus 380 Ammo Test |
S&W CSX Tabletop Review and Field Strip 2 0 |
SAR USA SAR9 C Shooting Impressions |
SAR USA SAR9 Sport Shooting Impressions |
SAR USA SAR9 Sport Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
SCCY DVG 1 RD Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
SCCY DVG 1 Shooting Impressions |
Sig P320 XCompact Shooting Impressions |
Sig P365 380 Shooting Impressions |
Sig P365 380 Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
Sig P365 380 Teya's Quick Take |
Smith & Wesson CSX Shooting Impressions |
Taming the Sig P365XL |
Taurus G3XL Shooting Impressions |
Taurus G3XL Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
Taurus G3XL Teya's Quick Take |
The Amazing WOOX Furiosa Experience |
The Canik Guide Video Version |
Tisas PX 9 Gen 3 Shooting Impressions |
Tisas PX 9 Gen 3 Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
Walther PDP F Series Shooting Impressions |
Walther PDP F Series Tabletop Review and Field Strip |
Wonderfully Different BBTechs BB6 |
Wonderfully Different Lionheart Regulus |
What Can We Do?
I will try to debate with YouTube, but am not holding my breath.
Changes will be happening to this website, I will stop embedding YouTube videos and instead move to Rumble Links. Wix (the hosting service I pay for) does not allow Rumble embedding currently, but the links will still take you to the Rumble video.
If you are not signed up for the GBGunsDepot email list please do so, it is only used to let you know of articles publishing, and if you do not actively read and click the emails you are automatically removed from future emails (I don't spam, don't use the emails to try and sell you anything).
Subscribe to the GBGuns Rumble account. YouTube broke the syndication, but I will begin uploading there deliberately.
If you want to reduce the power of Google and YouTube, stop using Google as your search engine. YouTube's monopoly on traffic is largely in part to the fact that it is owned by Google and so any time you search for something you're going to be given YouTube results. Each one of us is less than a drop in the global bucket of web traffic, but we can support other companies instead.
I have my own political and ethical standards, and do my best to keep them private. My journalism is about firearms, recording history, helping people make educated deciscions, and not influencing them. This attack however is unacceptable. Rumble is promising to be a safe place for all content, even if the topic doesn't support authoritarianism. This attack is also a reminder of why I started this website in the first place. I thank each of you who have used the affiliate links to support this site; it's not cheap to run.