Posted on 01/07/2018 9:41:41 AM PST by T-Bird45
Axel Galvez had a deal: $7,500 for five untraceable semiautomatic rifles. And he had a buyer: a felon who planned to ship them overseas. Now, he just needed weapons that would be invisible to regulators.
To avoid background checks, Mr. Galvez bought rifle parts, then assembled the five guns at the Los Angeles machine shop where he worked. He offered to build his buyer 100 more for $130,000.
An underground gun-making industry that enables criminals to elude background checks and bypass gun regulations is creating a growing trade of “ghost guns,” weapons that can’t be traced by police, authorities say.
Mr. Galvez’s buyer turned out to be a government informant; the 36-year-old machinist pleaded guilty in November to unlawful firearms manufacturing and dealing, according to court documents.
Ghost guns have been in the spotlight since a Northern California man, who was prohibited from possessing firearms because of a restraining order, killed five people in a November rampage using semiautomatic rifles that he made himself, police say. Other gunmen have employed the weapons as well. In 2016, a Baltimore man fired at police with a homemade AR-15, and Santa Monica shooter John Zawahri used a ghost gun in his shooting spree that killed five in 2013.
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I don’t understand.. aren’t receivers treated as if they were guns?
My understanding is that you can’t build a gun as described.
Unless the machine shop was manufacturing the receivers themselves.
It’s an 80% receiver in “as-cast” condition that has machining remaining to turn it into a functional receiver. Current law allows someone to do this for themselves but it is not for sale or transfer.
Yes, and the left makes gun laws that do nothing to stop this, while harassing non-violent honest citizens.
I’d like to get an 80% lower, but it seems silly to buy it on the internet with a credit card.
When they are selling batches of 100, they aren’t ‘customizing their firearm’.
And when one sells to someone who is stating that they want to break the law, one is too stupid to own guns.
CA to ban self made ghost guns that don’t exist.
California’s Bans of;
Plastic bags...
Extra Tax on cigarettes,
Gasoline and
Regulations on
Ammo.
Ain’t Skeered of no Ghoust gun.
Pot and illegals are ...
Well...
Cali is messed up.
If it is illegal for someone to possess a firearm then it is illegal for them to buy/build/steal one. Making the building process tougher, more expensive, or downright illegal isn't going to stop the criminal already determined to break numerous other laws. But it will further the gun control agenda. That's what this is really about - control.
“When they are selling batches of 100, they aren’t ‘customizing their firearm’.”
When I made that statement, my intent was to compare the typical purchaser of the 80% receiver who wants a DIY project being the primary market with those being targeted by for this enforcement push. The article’s theme is to paint all purchasers as those selling un-numbered rifles illegally. IOW, trying to do the usual smear of all gun owners with the acts of lawbreakers.
Absolutely. Check out cncguns.com and ghostgunner.net.
The answer to this menace to society is to ban machine shops.
You have a good message, but you need to pick your poster boys more carefully.
Or Ghost Presidents. Oh wait
“Hope Lon Horiuchi stays away.”
I wonder how his conscience is doing these days.
That’s pretty much my understanding. A customer of mine — a precision tool & die outfit — had a customer with Remmington. The manufacturing area had to be physically separate from the rest of the operation and every component was serialized with full traceability. Federal requirement.
My guess is that MSN doesn’t understand the Law, and easily fell for a false story, repeating it to their own embarrassment.
That son of a b!tch should be in jail serving a life sentence. If he had shot an Iraqi woman holding a baby, that’s exactly what would have happened to him. But he shot a “right wing extremist” and got away with it.
Youre 100% correct. It may cripple our economy, but if it saves even one life it will be worth it...
;-)
It’s a shame the Wall Street Journal is wiling to publish this crap.
Ghost guns appear to be most prevalent in California,
where there are restrictions on assault weapons that make it difficult to buy guns that are available in other states.
Bingo!!
See also Prohibition
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