Pro-Second Amendment Groups, Content Creators Protest YouTube’s New Rules

Second Amendment advocates are protesting YouTube’s Community Guidelines, which will restrict and outright ban certain gun content when they’re implemented on June 18. Under the new rules, videos selling firearms are prohibited, as are videos demonstrating how to remove safety devices, how to install or use devices that simulate fully automatic fire, how to manufacture guns or accessories, and videos converting semi-automatic weapons to fully automatic weapons. Livestream videos that “show someone holding, handling, or transporting a firearm” are also banned. Content showing the use of homemade firearms, certain gun accessories, and automatic weapons will be age-restricted. The age restriction will not apply to the depiction of firearms in games, movies, or police and combat videos that may be of public interest....