“Ghost Guns” was a term created by gun-control activists and was made to scare those who are not knowledgeable about firearms and firearms policy. “Ghost Guns” are simply firearms without serial numbers.
Congress will be having a hearing about unserialized firearms and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) will be the chair of this committee.
From WSHU:
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut chaired a key judiciary subcommittee hearing about a proposal to ban so-called “ghost guns” in an attempt to prevent gun violence.
Ghost guns are firearms that can be built from a kit ordered off the internet. Blumenthal said they can kill just as many people as guns bought from a store. But this gun doesn’t require an ID, licensing or a background check to purchase.
“In Connecticut, police have recently seized ghost guns in narcotics investigations, traffic stops and home invasions. In Hartford in recent years, police have seized roughly 10 ghost guns per year, and just last fall police arrested a suspect in possession of a ghost gun in connection in a shooting in East Hartford,” Blumenthal said.
Nicholas Suplina is with Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control.
“We’ve learned that ghost guns are rapidly becoming the weapon of choice for armed extremists. The House Committee on Homeland Security has concluded that ghost guns are a threat to our national security, and we have found numerous examples of white supremacists and anti-government extremist groups building ghost guns and using them with deadly intention and effect,” Suplina said.
The idea that banning unserialized firearms is going to improve public safety or reduce gun violence is a ridiculous notion. An unserialized firearm is only different from standard firearms because it lacks a serial number, firearms are already hard to trace and a number or rather a lack thereof does not make a firearm any more dangerous.
Those with bad intent can obtain firearms illegally without much effort, the laws that are being proposed target law-abiding citizens as criminals already break the law. If we make it illegal to 3-D print firearms criminals who intend to use guns for criminal purposes are going to do it anyway, they already plan on doing things that are illegal so another charge to them means nothing.
Richard Blumenthal is firmly in the camp of the anti-gun left, his position as chair of this committee is a clear sign that this will not be a bipartisan ordeal. This is anti-gun legislators in Congress moving in to take out unserialized firearms at the same time that the Biden administration is doing so.
