With some tools and a few hundred bucks, people can make untraceable firearms. Gun control groups say they're being used in more crimes, like a California school shooting last week, while gun rights activists say it's a constitutional right.
File-This Nov. 14, 2019, file photo shows students being escorted out of Saugus High School after reports of a shooting in Santa Clarita, Calif. For a few hundred dollars, tools and some elbow grease, you can make your very own rifle or handgun. It’s all perfectly legal and it can be done without leaving anything behind for the government to trace. These so-called “ghost guns” have long been popular among hobbyists or gun enthusiasts.
“These firearms directly undercut federal and state law designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them,” he added.to fatally shoot two classmates and wound three others at a school in suburban Los Angeles, authorities said. He shot himself and later died. Plenty of online companies sell what are called 80 percent receivers, which are nearly finished and require just a bit of drilling to be usable. They don’t have a serial number and don’t require a background check.
“Is it worth it to eviscerate a new technology and increase the size of our already massive criminal law just to assuage fear, fear with no actual backing in fact? I’d say, probably not,” he said.
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