Posted on 11/25/2017 8:19:46 AM PST by Olog-hai
A gun control group founded by former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords asked two web hosting companies on Friday to shut down websites selling parts and machines that help make untraceable homemade firearms known as ghost guns.
The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence asked the providers that host GhostGunner.net and GhostGuns.com to disable the websites for violating the hosting companies terms of service.
The sites sell kits, components and machines that help create homemade semi-automatic weapons. Its legal to build a gun in a home or a workshop, and advances in 3-D printing and milling have made it easier to do so. The kits can be purchased legally for a few hundred dollars without the kind of background check required for traditional gun purchases.
Attorneys for the gun control advocacy group said the homemade weapons are increasingly being used in crimes and asked each of the companies to invoke its policies to help stem the tide of this illegal, deadly behavior.
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Ghost Guns are a real thing, but criminals don’t build these from kits.
These guns are made in the third world and smuggled in.
The amount of effort to make your own gun makes it much cheaper to just buy one of these ghost guns off the black market and none of these are made with these kits.
Hoo?
Hoo, indeed?
“No evidence whatsoever that one of these weapons was ever used in a crime or in an illegal manner.”
Not trying to be argumentative but, Kevin Janson Neal, the Tehama County Norcal shooter had 2 homemade AR’s which altho they don’t come out and specifically say it implies a 80% lower assembly.
http://www.redding.com/story/news/2017/11/15/tehama-shooter-built-his-own-illegal-guns/868737001/
Before anyone gets the wrong idea I am not a gun control grabber. The gun wasn’t the issue in this case his mental state was. He put out more than enough signals to detain and having his place searched and all firearms confiscated.
They could admit the technology is out there, and cannot be put back in a bottle.
But...no they intend to go down the Soviet road, where even typwriters were registered and tightly controlled.
Cannot have the people with too much knowledge or ability ... it is dangerous to tyrants!
In Africa, Pakistan, India, the Phillipenes.. They make automatic weapons with files simple drills, and blacksmith tools.
Well, I guess one is an ‘increase’ over none.
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