I'd love to hear from anyone who has an idea of what -- if anything -- is acceptable in the Biden regs or the Senate bill that is not an infringement on the Second Amendment BUT helps the police keep the streets safe for us to walk down without a 14 year old and a drug dealer coming at us. (Yes, I know carry our own guns, but for those who aren't carrying.)
Your article is thought provoking however you still use the ter Assault Style Weapon. They are already banned and only used by military. Now let's get to the core. The fake Vet Blumenthal has no credibility. I am a retired officer. Baltimore cannot certify one student in its school system in math or English. Their is complete family breakdown in major cities. Charter schools is a possible answer. I find political gun bans work against people who follow laws, criminals don't. I'm sorry but it seems you come at the issue from the no win side. You need to bring back God, Country and morals to our society. Very complex. By the way, defund police increases gun purchasing. 23 minute 911 response time means you and your family are dead.
For transparency, I rewrote the line about how to define a ghost gun. I just am not sure whose definition to use, so I wrote it this way. I'll change it next time I write about this topic if it gets more narrowed down.
>>The government does not use the term “ghost gun” in any regulation or law. (I’m not putting quotation marks around ghost gun for simplicity and because the online dealers don’t use them.)
But since the Justice Department just proposed new rules to regulate them, the best I can do to define one their way as this: a gun that does not have a serial number and is privately made. In comparison, a regular, functional gun from a manufacturer has a serial number that the the licensed dealer records when selling it and runs a background check.<<
Every time a gun is found on a suspect or abandoned at a crime scene, the 1st thing law enforcement does is start a trace of the serial number; I have to ask, how often does the information from the trace lead to the criminal? We know the majority of firearms carried and used by criminals are obtained illegally, but it sounds like let's punish everyone who want to make a homemade gun for the actions of criminals?
The one on the right is the Taurus PT 111. The tan one in the next photo is a real Glock. The others are Polymer 80s, and you are correct, the black one on the right is the S&W M&P.
What else should you investigate?......where to even start. Thanks for doing what you do!
Ms. Emily, you are absolutely correct, no gun laws either current nor proposed will have any positive effect in reducing firearm violence. Only when we address your key comment "of why is a 14 year old running around with an adult with a gun, and where are the parents ?" the culture and the lack of any moral foundation is the root of all of the gun crime infecting communities. restricting the rights of lawful citizens will only fuel an ever growing boldness of criminals
The short answer is to serialize barrels. Barrels leave marks on bullets and are the only 'fingerprint' of a gun. Everything else is usekess and should not be tracked. I also believe every barrel should be fired before sold and the marks stored in a federal database...
Some clarification is required. The reader may be left with the impression that any firearm assembled by a regular person is a ghost gun. That is not true. The article states:
"A ghost gun is a term used to mean one that comes in parts and assembled to be functional by a regular person. You don’t have to pass a background check to buy parts of guns. Regular, functional guns from manufacturers have serial number that the licensed dealer records when selling it. . . . I recently noticed DC is citing “ghost gun” on its recovery list. There is no criteria given for what differentiate a ghost gun -- whether it’s made of Polymer80 parts or just has no serial number."
A ghost gun is one without a serial number. Polymer80 manufactures guns or gun components that require machine processes (i.e., not merely assembly from parts) to make the final product. There are other manufacturers of similar unfinished firearms or components, which are generically called 80% components. All such 80% guns, regardless of who manufactures them, lack serial numbers and are therefore not documented, when sold. This is all legal and within ATF's requirements.
There are many (and surely a majority of) guns assembled by "a regular person," which are not 80% guns. These incorporate a complete, functional receiver with a serial number. Unlike other firearms components (barrels, stocks, trigger assemblies, etc.), which can be purchased like any other product, complete, functional receivers are the one (and only) component controlled by the ATF. Such receivers are required to be sold or transferred by a person with a federal firearms licenses (FFL), and the purchaser must pass a background check. Once assembled, these firearms are no different from one assembled with a serial numbered receiver by a firearms manufacturer.
I'd love to hear from anyone who has an idea of what -- if anything -- is acceptable in the Biden regs or the Senate bill that is not an infringement on the Second Amendment BUT helps the police keep the streets safe for us to walk down without a 14 year old and a drug dealer coming at us. (Yes, I know carry our own guns, but for those who aren't carrying.)
Your article is thought provoking however you still use the ter Assault Style Weapon. They are already banned and only used by military. Now let's get to the core. The fake Vet Blumenthal has no credibility. I am a retired officer. Baltimore cannot certify one student in its school system in math or English. Their is complete family breakdown in major cities. Charter schools is a possible answer. I find political gun bans work against people who follow laws, criminals don't. I'm sorry but it seems you come at the issue from the no win side. You need to bring back God, Country and morals to our society. Very complex. By the way, defund police increases gun purchasing. 23 minute 911 response time means you and your family are dead.
For transparency, I rewrote the line about how to define a ghost gun. I just am not sure whose definition to use, so I wrote it this way. I'll change it next time I write about this topic if it gets more narrowed down.
>>The government does not use the term “ghost gun” in any regulation or law. (I’m not putting quotation marks around ghost gun for simplicity and because the online dealers don’t use them.)
But since the Justice Department just proposed new rules to regulate them, the best I can do to define one their way as this: a gun that does not have a serial number and is privately made. In comparison, a regular, functional gun from a manufacturer has a serial number that the the licensed dealer records when selling it and runs a background check.<<
Every time a gun is found on a suspect or abandoned at a crime scene, the 1st thing law enforcement does is start a trace of the serial number; I have to ask, how often does the information from the trace lead to the criminal? We know the majority of firearms carried and used by criminals are obtained illegally, but it sounds like let's punish everyone who want to make a homemade gun for the actions of criminals?
The one on the right is the Taurus PT 111. The tan one in the next photo is a real Glock. The others are Polymer 80s, and you are correct, the black one on the right is the S&W M&P.
What else should you investigate?......where to even start. Thanks for doing what you do!
Ms. Emily, you are absolutely correct, no gun laws either current nor proposed will have any positive effect in reducing firearm violence. Only when we address your key comment "of why is a 14 year old running around with an adult with a gun, and where are the parents ?" the culture and the lack of any moral foundation is the root of all of the gun crime infecting communities. restricting the rights of lawful citizens will only fuel an ever growing boldness of criminals
The short answer is to serialize barrels. Barrels leave marks on bullets and are the only 'fingerprint' of a gun. Everything else is usekess and should not be tracked. I also believe every barrel should be fired before sold and the marks stored in a federal database...
No gun regulation is acceptable unless one rewrites the 2nd Amendment.
As written now, it prohibits any interference by gov with the RTABA. Period
Did you catch Ashley Hlebinsky's testimony? It was good.
Gotta love a lady who knows her history.
https://www.nssf.org/articles/gun-historian-ashley-hlebinsky-drops-truth-bombs-in-ghost-gun-hearing/
Some clarification is required. The reader may be left with the impression that any firearm assembled by a regular person is a ghost gun. That is not true. The article states:
"A ghost gun is a term used to mean one that comes in parts and assembled to be functional by a regular person. You don’t have to pass a background check to buy parts of guns. Regular, functional guns from manufacturers have serial number that the licensed dealer records when selling it. . . . I recently noticed DC is citing “ghost gun” on its recovery list. There is no criteria given for what differentiate a ghost gun -- whether it’s made of Polymer80 parts or just has no serial number."
A ghost gun is one without a serial number. Polymer80 manufactures guns or gun components that require machine processes (i.e., not merely assembly from parts) to make the final product. There are other manufacturers of similar unfinished firearms or components, which are generically called 80% components. All such 80% guns, regardless of who manufactures them, lack serial numbers and are therefore not documented, when sold. This is all legal and within ATF's requirements.
There are many (and surely a majority of) guns assembled by "a regular person," which are not 80% guns. These incorporate a complete, functional receiver with a serial number. Unlike other firearms components (barrels, stocks, trigger assemblies, etc.), which can be purchased like any other product, complete, functional receivers are the one (and only) component controlled by the ATF. Such receivers are required to be sold or transferred by a person with a federal firearms licenses (FFL), and the purchaser must pass a background check. Once assembled, these firearms are no different from one assembled with a serial numbered receiver by a firearms manufacturer.