National ‘Ghost Guns,’ Homemade and Untraceable, Face Growing Scrutiny

[Joe Link]

Buying a fully assembled gun is a process subject to a host of regulationsand restrictions, especially in states like California that tend to be more stringent.

But anyone can make a gun at home.

The do-it-yourself route is often favored by gun enthusiasts, including hobbyists and competitive shooters. It can also be a path to gun ownership for felons and people with mental illnesses or those who have been convicted of domestic violence.

The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, part of the gun safety group founded by Gabrielle Giffords, the former representative from Arizona who survived an assassination attempt in 2011, is calling on two internet service providers to disable websites that sell materials and tools to create homemade weapons. Such weapons, often referred to as ghost guns, were used in a mass shooting in Northern California this month.

The websites, ghostgunner.net and ghostguns.com, allow customers to bypass background checks and build unregistered firearms without serial numbers.

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[Reed]

We must ban the use of End-Mill Bits.

Think of the children.

 

[Mark W.]

Just how many bat bubblegum crazy people have been scratch building their own firearms? Granted with AR-15's and AK-47's building you own is a lot different then what it takes to build most other firearms. I have seen beautiful Marlin model 39's and Hi Wall model 1885 Winchesters all built from scratch. Hardly a concern in the challenge to fight crime. It would be a total shame if as is typical the law is written in such away as to curtail what is a true art form for some people.

Like going after rifles to stop crime when hammers and bats are so much more dangerous. I would really like to see how many home made firearms are being found connected to a real crime.

 

[KKG]

I don't see where putting a Serial Number on this so called Art Form is going to make it less of a piece of Art. It's not like this is something New in this country.

 

[11Charlie]

I Love this country but really hate what some are trying to do to it!!

 

[KKG]

I really do think that putting the Bad In or under the jail is important. And Serial Numbers do help to do that.

 

[bolus]

hey @Joe Link How about linking these articles with Archive.is so the NYtimes does not get links and advertising money from us?

here is the archive link for this story:
'Ghost Guns,' Homemade and Untraceable, Face Growing Scrutiny - The N…

 

[Caveman Jim]

A serial number only makes registration possible so that they know what you have and if they start confiscation then they know where you live. That is all it is, it's not going to help save the children or anybody else it's just government being the British hierarchy.
Time to poke the bee nest peoples.

 

[KKG]

Time to poke the bee nest peoples.

I won't go beyond saying I, Personally, have used the Serial Number on more than one firearm to be able to return those Firearms to their rightful Owners. If there had NOT been a Serial Number on those Weapons they would have been destroyed. That's something called the Law.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Well, I do not let my Caspers out of my safe unattended, so they cannot go out and do something illegal or stupid.

 

[KKG]

Well, I do not let my Caspers out of my safe unattended, so they cannot go out and do something illegal or stupid.

The ones I returned hadn't left home without assistance either but they had left. Returning them has always been one of my fondest memories! This one provided me with two since I was able to provide the BGs with a trip to the House with Many Doors and return the Firearms.

 

[Tomahawk67]

Last time I checked fists killed more people than 80's , yet violent felons still have them.

 

[KKG]

Last time I checked fists killed more people than 80's , yet violent felons still have them.

And drunks still have cars. So...

 

[Tomahawk67]

And drunks still have cars. So...

exactamundo

 

[Joe Link]

hey @Joe Link How about linking these articles with Archive.is so the NYtimes does not get links and advertising money from us?

here is the archive link for this story:
'Ghost Guns,' Homemade and Untraceable, Face Growing Scrutiny - The N…

That's exactly what we used to do, until fellow website owners were threatened with legal action. Same reason we don't post the whole article and include a link

 

[308]

Ban assault fish!
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[Diamondback]

No offense, @KKG, but what I own is none of some f***ing government pissweasel's business. The next step in this state will be "registration," and we all know what the next step on the Bloomer Bumsucking Arsebandit Agenda is after that...

 

[bolus]

That's exactly what we used to do, until fellow website owners were threatened with legal action. Same reason we don't post the whole article and include a link

Sorry, I did not know that was the reason. Then F them and dont link the articles at all. We all know what their agenda is. We all know the reporters dont have enough knowledge to write on anything gun related.

 

[11Charlie]

No offense, @KKG, but what I own is none of some f***ing government pissweasel's business. The next step in this state will be "registration," and we all know what the next step on the Bloomer Bumsucking Arsebandit Agenda is after that...

I'll second that notion, with no offense to anyone except snowflakes

 

[Diamondback]

I'll second that notion, with no offense to anyone except snowflakes

Millennial Bluedouche Snowflakes can suck a used fart-filter... right after I unleash a Bowl Blaster into it.