The proposed ordinance was announced in the wake of recent arrests linked to an illegal gun-making operation run out of a Willow Glen home.
SAN JOSE — Two Santa Clara County supervisors and the district attorney are backing a county ordinance that would ban possession of so-called ghost guns, following cities in the Bay Area and throughout the state in trying to supplement state laws on home-assembled firearms that authorities say are routinely used to evade investigations of gun violence.
Supervisors Cindy Chavez and Otto Lee announced they are co-writing a referral for consideration by the Board of Supervisors on March 8 aimed at cracking down on unserialized firearms that local law enforcement say are turning up on the streets at record numbers.home-based ghost gun-making operation“Ghost guns have no serial numbers, making them untraceable, and you don’t need background checks,” Chavez said at a Wednesday news conference.
According to the district attorney’s office, the number of ghost guns recovered and linked to crimes investigated in Santa Clara County have skyrocketed from four in 2015 to 293 last year. Between 2020 and 2021, that figured doubled from 141. “It’s at a level we have never seen before,” Rosen said. “They can be built in a living room, sold on the black market, and placed in the hands of a dangerous felon within hours … These guns are not being made by hobbyists who are doing this for fun.”
Lee added that plastic gun components made from 3D printers adds a dimension of making home-made firearms pass through metal detectors. An imminent state law addresses that concern by mandating that a plastic part must contain a serial number engraved on a piece of metal large enough to alert metal detectors.When asked for details, Rosen acknowledged that what exactly the proposed ordinance in Santa Clara County would do is still being determined.
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