Posted on 04/14/2023 10:05:53 AM PDT by rellimpank
Ghost guns are coming under fire from gun-control advocates. But why are these weapons so difficult to trace? And can anything be done to keep them from getting into the wrong hands? (snip) Officials told him the 17-year-old suspect used a ghost gun, which is a privately made firearm that is unregistered and untraceable. Nowadays, anyone with access to the internet can buy the parts needed to make a gun without a background check. Tutorials online explain how to assemble the pieces into a fully functioning firearm with just basic tools in less than an hour.
"I was just in shock how easy it was to get it," Mr Yambo told the BBC. "You would think things like that, you can't just order it online as if it was a toy."
Experts are calling ghost guns the fastest-growing gun safety problem in America. The number of ghost guns recovered from crime scenes by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), has risen by more than 1,000% since 2017.
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I would be willing to bet that these “experts” are combining guns that have been made without serial numbers, legally and privately, with commercially-manufactured guns that have had their serial numbers illegally obliterated. There just aren’t that many people making their own weapons, and most of those people aren’t likely to use the guns in crimes.
How many illegals get guns?
Chinese illegals, too.
Military aged illegals.
I don't have the right tooling to finish an 80% receiver, nor is it a good use of my time. I can buy a 100% receiver with serial number and fill out a Form 4473 for half the price of the 80% that requires substantial extra work. The only thing the FFL has is a registered chunk of metal. There is only an inkling of what it might become after I install a parts kit.
I seriously doubt that petty criminals are going to invest the time and money to do the finish work on an 80% receiver. It's easier to purchase a stolen firearm on the streets. The fear porn from politicians about "ghost guns" is just publicity seeking demagoguery.
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Gotta admit. not disappointed.
So what, they found one in 2017 and ten this year?
Kids these days. In my day you didn’t need any “Internet” or “ghost guns.” Any boy with a little mechanical aptitude and a basement or garage workshop could make a perfectly functional zip-gun in a matter of minutes, and amazingly, most of them survived the experience.
And those same everytown morons supported the latest lunacy in Maryland. Senate Bill 1, passed last week limits concealed carry to buildings where it’s posted that guns may be carried.
This, the number of guns left in cars by law abiding concealed carriers will increase dramatically, thereby increasing thefts of guns left in cars, this increasing violent crime.
But, like good little marxists, they’re all too stupid to let facts get in the way of their twisted opinions.
“...has risen by more than 1,000% since 2017...”
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https://giffords.org/lawcenter/state-laws/guns-in-vehicles-in-georgia/ ... GA guns-in-vehicles laws. Kinda scary given the nutjobs on roads these day.
Experts are calling ghost guns the fastest-growing gun safety problem “in Democrat-run cities” in America.
Fixed their editing problem for them.../s
Criminals are not being locked up for gun crime.
WE know that’s the right answer, but I doubt the author of the article does.
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Crime statistics by demographics point to the root of the problem.
I once knew someone back in the 90s (allegedly) that was a smuggler in Costa Rica. He would smuggle blue jeans to Nicaragua and firearms back. With our porous border don’t you think it would be easy to smuggle AKs over? RPGs? Grenades?
Also, in most states private sales of firearms between two private citizens is not illegal. That means the trace ends with the first time it was sold by a FFL.
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