Rolling Stone magazine has published an article promoting a leftist gun influencer who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s 2025 assassination, organizes transgender militias, and believes law enforcement officers should be shot to death. The piece centers on “Yeezy,” a 33-year-old Appalachian man, and his online 3D-printing firearms operation.

The article, titled “This Man Wants to Help You Print Your Own Gun” and written by writer Jack Crosbie, frames Yeeze’s ghost gun business as a solution for people facing potential gun restrictions, particularly trans-identifying individuals.

Yeezy has positioned himself as a trans rights activist and has a history of advocating for violence against what and whom he perceives as opposition to the transgender agenda. He describes himself as a “far-left trantifa extremist,” despite not being transgender himself. 

The article reads: “Last fall, Yeezy invited several trans members of his online community to his house for a basic firearms training course. Over the weekend, he taught around 20 people, mostly trans women, how to shoot, and explained the basics of 3D-printing guns. The latter point was important, because there are signs that for trans people, the right to bear arms may soon truly be infringed.”

Yeezy told Rolling Stone that the solution for trans people is simple: a 3D printer. “How bad do you want [a weapon]?” he said. “If you want it bad enough, you can figure it out. It just comes down to willpower.”

Merchandise sold on Yeezy’s website

In May, the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) Bureau proposed a new rule that would require firearm applicants to disclose their biological sex on the forms, which activists have claimed could potentially restrict transgender people from obtaining firearms. There has been a significant increase in mass shootings carried out by trans-identifying people over the past several years.

Additionally, Yeeze actively sells radical leftist extremist merchandise with slogans such as “The Second Amendment Is for Shooting Cops” and “The Second Amendment Is for Shooting ICE,” according to his website.

Shortly after conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Yeezy wrote in a September 2025 post on social media: “REST IN PISS CHARLIE KIRK.” Other posts on his social media include ones saying “The people labeling you a domestic terrorist are all morally depraved pedophiles,” “you can’t vote your way out of a fascist government,” and “if the pigs start shooting you shoot back.”

Writer Crosbie concluded his piece by agreeing with Yeezy, saying, “He’s right,” and warning, “If that’s where we’re headed, it’s a deadly future, because the brutality of American life taught Yeezy and others like him that the only way to live was by reserving the power to kill.”