Depends on who you ask. Dems consider “ghost guns” to be simply guns without serial numbers and there are plenty of those. That’s the benefit of making up and popularizing a new term, you get to then decide what it means.
It’s not like serial numbers are all that useful. It doesn’t help solve a murder unless you already have ballistics for a weapon with that serial number. It might help you find a stolen gun if the person who reported it stolen even writes it down.
Maybe not 3d printed stuff, but 80% kit guns, Polymer80s in particular, seemed to plague the streets while they were in business, probably still do. Having no paper trail beyond the purchase of the kit is definitely an advantage to criminals and the people who provide to them (also criminals).
There’s always going to be a market that these cater to. Even if not serious career criminals, there’s wifebeaters and boozers and such who can’t pass a NICS check and don’t have the connections to get one off the street.
The US does not have a ghost gun problem as guns are easy to get here, even in states with restricted gun ownership.
Depends on who you ask. Dems consider “ghost guns” to be simply guns without serial numbers and there are plenty of those. That’s the benefit of making up and popularizing a new term, you get to then decide what it means.
It’s not like serial numbers are all that useful. It doesn’t help solve a murder unless you already have ballistics for a weapon with that serial number. It might help you find a stolen gun if the person who reported it stolen even writes it down.
Maybe not 3d printed stuff, but 80% kit guns, Polymer80s in particular, seemed to plague the streets while they were in business, probably still do. Having no paper trail beyond the purchase of the kit is definitely an advantage to criminals and the people who provide to them (also criminals).
There’s always going to be a market that these cater to. Even if not serious career criminals, there’s wifebeaters and boozers and such who can’t pass a NICS check and don’t have the connections to get one off the street.