TFB Behind The Gun Podcast #87: Exploring the Granny Tunnel with Calvin of Firepower United

Luke C.
by Luke C.

We’re back to our continuing coverage of Finnish Brutality 2023, this time with my good friend Calvin T from Firepower United. Many of you will remember Calvin from his YouTube channel that often collaborated with TFBTV and it just so happens that this year Calvin and I had the opportunity to shoot together at Finnish Brutality 2023. Beyond being a professional gun satirist, Calvin is also an accomplished competitive shooter, as well as an avid collector of historical military firearms. Today Calvin and I will be discussing the Finnish Brutality 2023 match, some of his competitive shooting stories, and of course a neat story behind the infamous “Granny Tunnel” located in the country’s capital of Helsinki. Please welcome Calvin T of Firepower United to the show!

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TFB Behind The Gun Podcast #87: Exploring the Granny Tunnel with Calvin of Firepower United

On today’s episode of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast, we’ve brought on Calvin from the YouTube channel Firepower United. For longtime readers and watchers of TFB, many of you might remember Calvin back when Alex C used to frequent the channel. While Calvin doesn’t do many long-form videos these days on his YouTube channel, he does run a highly successful series of reels that are primarily satire but often contain useful nuggets of training info, or tidbits about specific firearms models. However, what Calvin is probably most famous for is the response that some of his more satirical YouTube shorts generate. While Calvin creates some of my favorite online short-form content, he’s also a very competent competitive shooter having competed not just here in the States, but across the globe as an IPSC, and more importantly for today’s topic, a Finnish Brutality competitor. Calvin and I were both part of this year’s Finnish Brutality media squad and had a great time experiencing not just the great firearms culture that Finland has, but their Sauna culture, and also learning of some of their more infamous local attractions in the city of Helsinki. Please welcome Clavin, of Firepower United to the show!

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  • Joe S Joe S on Oct 05, 2023

    It was physically painful how many people didn't understand he was being satirical with his Fuk Long series. The SCAR/gross motor skills videos especially; watching the followup with Travis Haley or the 1911 reload videos usually helped people realize what was up. When it didn't... those people got filed under too dumb to trust with carry ammo.

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    • Kpi Kpi on Oct 06, 2023

      @Heat is overrated Jesus Christ man, as a Finnish man myself i just came here to see what's up with that "Granny Tunnel" they made it sound so interesting but then the article just stopped. But anyway, then i watched his videos you told and watched the comments like my GOD those people shouldn't carry slingshots...

      Like one of those so called experts in the comments called the "bolt" as bold, and there was so much Idiocracy in those comments especially from the "so called" professionals that really made me think like wow no wonder there are so many accidental shootings there. (no offense, i love America and especially the gun culture)

      Those comment section people probably buy their first gun, and be like "Look bro, how big the barrel is on my shotty my thumb fits there" without trigger discipline and pew. That or the guns being all over the place, as kids can anytime grab them and sadly get hurt.

      That's why here we have laws to prevent that, as in keeping your guns always in the law specified cabinet which is bolted to the ground. Which also as a + basically renders burglars completely worthless at least on your guns, since they cannot carry the heavy gun cabinet either or even try to hack it open on the spot because the thickness of it on the law is specified.

      That's the reason why these days you see those posts of even professional criminals buying 3d printed guns, when the border crossings also has been made very difficult for gun smugglers which is why they often are in the news like couple Estonians which i got insider info we're biker affiliated but that wasn't in news nor did the border crossing agents knew it. They tried to smuggle an pm63 smg (that old guns are pretty much always re-activated from the old deactivated ones, that are dead in Nordic countries these days). Most of the "real" illegal guns in this country is made basically either former gunsmiths or current gunsmiths who as a side-job does the guns, because for example a 600€ glock can pay them 2000-3000€. That and from people in the countryside who have the permits, but gets a big chunk of money to fake a robbery and then they try to claim the insurance money as well. Same goes with them giving the bullets since they cannot be traced back after they remove all the numbers, and people finding all sorts of ways to remake guns from older version deactivated guns which are now equally illegal as real guns to own and they are getting more rarer every day as in sooner or later they simply run out. Pretty much none of the illegal gun sellers can last long here, because simply all of their ways is cut out and sooner or later (pretty much max couple years) and they get busted then they admit theirs to get lesser sentence (which always is quite small, in comparison to for example gun smugglers in America from documentaries) since guns here are so high-priority for law enforcement, that soon as they get any knowledge of some criminal connected to guns they get them trough any means. Which makes the gunsmiths job also harder, because they leave so big of a trail that only the soldier-structured 1% biker gangs can last longest. But even those are getting dead, since two 1% gangs got declared as illegal here just in past few years and they stopped (Cannonball MC & United Brotherhood, both which we're the biggest 1% gangs here, that has chapters on Estonia as well) only 1% bikers left are Hells Angels and Banditos.

      Sorry my ADHD.

  • Dave Dave on Oct 05, 2023

    The Polenar Tactical video of this was a lot of fun. Calvin's a really cool dude and I envy his gun collection.

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