Posted on 02/08/2022 2:33:27 PM PST by rellimpank
Los Angeles County's top prosecutor called Tuesday on three credit card companies to stop online payments for the purchase of kits to make untraceable "ghost guns."
"American Express, Mastercard and Visa have the ability to go beyond what any law enforcement agency, legislature or city council can accomplish," District Attorney George Gascón said in a written statement. "We are asking these companies to join us in stemming the flow of ghost guns into our communities by preventing a ghost gun kit from being sold with a few mere clicks on a smartphone or computer."
So-called ghost guns are typically assembled from purchased or homemade components and lack serial numbers by which they can be identified.
The District Attorney's Office contends that no valid background checks are done, often merely requiring the buyer to self-certify -- enabling someone who is legally disqualified because of a felony or domestic violence conviction, mental illness or being underage to easily buy a ghost gun kit by making a false and untested certification
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“Of course, private companies, so long as they aren’t bakers or wedding photographers, can deal with whomever they want.”
Owning a gun, besides being antisocial, is a completely outdated idea that has no part of 21st-century American life. The so-called ‘right to keep and bear arms’ is a product of 18th century slave owners! It is not ‘who we are’.
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That’s one more than I have ever heard of. Maybe I am just not paying attention. 😀😊
“Gun tracing” is a movie plot device that is utterly 100% meaningless when it comes to solving crimes.
If serial number gun tracing was so awesome, almost every gun crime would be solved. The entire concept is a joke.
DA is overstepping! He cannot legislate!
Yikes!!
I heard they have a crack team of teenagers in a van investigating this. One guy wears an ascot, there is a hot one, a fat lesbian, a stoner and his dog
Guns not considered Ghost Guns are involved in crime, so what
difference does it make if a gun is a ghost gun or not?
All the laws we have concerning guns, and it hasn’t stopped
gun crime at all.
Gascon, do you have the mental faculties to grasp that
criminals will not live by the rules you set down?
You could outlaw guns outright, and there would still be
gun crime.
You would have only achieved making the public vulnerable
to any crime a criminal wanted to commit. Then that
criminal may or may not be caught, may or may not be
convicted, and may or may not serve his terms because an
idiot like you would release him early.
_ you!
Use gab pay :-)
Ahem....Bitcoin.
Hey George, until you start actually prosecuting criminals, STFU.
"Rut-Roh, Shaggy"
It's plenty of work without the extra machining to finish an 80% lower. If the end product is going to host an SBR configuration, you need to do a Form 1 with ATF, pay $200 and get the stamp in hand, then take the raw lower to a CNC shop to engrave the NFA Trust or similar "maker" spec on the serialized lower.
Conspiracy against civil rights. Jail the DAs and execs.
American Express, MasterCard and Visa have the ability to go beyond what any law enforcement agency, legislature or city council can accomplish,” District Attorney George Gascon said.
Government directing ‘private’ entities to pursue otherwise not attainable goals, Is that not the technical definition of fascism?
Not that there is any question that Gascon, Boudin and all the rest of the kapo Soros appointed District Attorneys are likewise fascist.
Why just last weekend I overheard a brother yell out in a car doing a drive by: “BACK UP AND STOP !!! Damned it, someone hand me a Powder horn, Patch and one of them Sabot Rounds !!! I missed with that last shot...”
“CRAP ! I dropped the Ramrod !!!”
“What penalty would deter a ghost from getting a gun?”
Maybe life in prison? The death penalty wouldn’t work.
Grandpa Antifa had one when he got whacked by the popo.
There have been a few. It is hard to know, precisely, because many are collected in crimes of illegal possession of guns, or as part of another crime, such as possession of drugs.
The numbers are tiny when compared to overall crimes.
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