Polymer80 is back in the news because they are being served a lawsuit by two Los Angeles deputies over the alleged use of their products in an ambush on police.
The lawsuit has been filed in California and alleges that Polymer8 unlawfully sold an “untraceable home-assembled gun kit” that was used to assemble a “ghost gun” which was then used to attack two police officers.
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Polymer80 sold “ghost gun kits without serial numbers and without taking reasonable steps to ensure that purchasers are legally allowed to purchase or possess firearms, despite knowing that their deadly products are especially attractive to criminals and would likely and foreseeably end up in the hands of dangerous persons prohibited from legally owning firearms under federal and state law,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit further contends that Polymer80 “purposefully sold their products without markings to make it difficult for law enforcement to trace the firearm.”
“Defendants knew and could foresee – but consciously disregarded the risk – that they were creating and contributing to a direct and secondary market for illegal, unserialized and untraceable guns, knowing that their firearms were likely to end up in the hands of criminals and were likely to be used for criminal purposes like the ambush shooting of the Plaintiffs,” it says.
Law enforcement agencies say ghost guns are increasingly turning up at crime scenes. From 2016 to 2020, there were approximately 23,906 suspected privately made ghost guns reported to ATF as having been recovered from crime scenes by police, including 325 homicides or attempted homicides.
