Ghost guns and liberty

American Thinker ^ | 13 Oct, 2024 | Mike McDaniel

[MtnClimber]

Americans have always been able to make their own guns, even without serial numbers, but various anti-liberty/gun jurisdictions are considering changing that.

“Ghost guns” are very much like “assault weapons” in several significant ways. They don’t exist in firearm nomenclature. They’re the invention of anti-liberty/gun Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs), and they describe any gun, or in the case of “ghost guns” any gun part or group of parts, D/s/cs want to ban. Both are used in an insignificant number of crimes. The most common application of the term describes homemade guns without serial numbers.

Americans have always been able to make their own guns, even without serial numbers, but various anti-liberty/gun jurisdictions are considering changing that. Serial numbers weren’t required until the Gun Control Act of 1968, so there are untold millions of guns in circulation that never had serial numbers. Properly maintained, guns can last centuries.

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It's perfectly within America’s Second Amendment rights to make their own guns, and a number of manufacturers make parts kits, including unfinished lower receivers—the portion of a gun housing the trigger and hammer/striker mechanisms—“80%” complete, that require some drilling and/or other machining/filing to finish. Because these are not complete firearms—they’re parts--they are not required to have serial numbers, and that, to federal and state bureaucrats, presents two problems: (1) That’s too much freedom for Deplorables, and (2) they need the power to write their own laws to keep Deplorables from having too much freedom.

That’s why the ATF has unilaterally declared such parts kits, and particularly non-serialized lower receivers (in the case of AR-15 pattern rifles) and frames (in the case of pistols) illegal, though the relevant laws say nothing about them.

[MtnClimber]

Ghost guns...just in time for Halloween. I don’t want candy lady, you got any bullets?

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

morlock always wheres those commi intergalactic moo moo things

she is so sick

what does chelsea thing when shes alone in the kitchen with a cup of coffee.

[ansel12]

Instead of something normal like “kit guns” the media came up with a brilliant, scary, threatening name that implies something outside the normal world of an ordinary gun, something especially sinister and unique, a new element, hidden and undetectable arising from the darkness of the world of death and violence.

[AZJeep]

What is a gun?
One can take some pipe, close it in one side, drill little hole for ignition and voila, you have a rudimentary muzzleloader! The kind our ancestors used to have.

Is that illegal? Are they going to ban pipes???

[broken_clock]

[rellimpank]

—and here is some rot from Chicago’s leading garbage wrap-

-https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2024/10/12/machine-guns-handguns-switches-more-shootings-death-editorial

[MileHi]

Serial numbers weren’t required until the Gun Control Act of 1968,

Unconstitutional under the 2A and the SCOTUS Bruen decision.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

One great article I read in Guns and Ammo magazine back in the early 1970s was about hand made guns behind Prison walls!
They are rather easy to make just like the old Zip Guns.

Several old movies showed such home made guns.
Canon City(1948)
An American Guerrilla in the Philippines(1950)
Quite a few how to do it books have been printed since the 1960s on how to make them. There was even a magazine in the 1980s about them, FIREPOWER Magazine.