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A demonstration of how quickly a ghost gun tin exist assembled, October in San Francisco with AG Rob Bonta and DA Chesa Boudin looking on

By David M. Greenwald
Executive Editor

Woodland, CA – Concluding fall I attended a press conference with AG Rob Bonta and San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin. At this press conference one of the investigators got up at that place and showed just how piece of cake it was to transport and then assemble a ghost gun into a weapon that was ready to use and ready to kill. They also demonstrated merely how hard it was to track and monitor their distribution.

Ghost guns are a existent problem which is why the AG and DA at that time announced a lawsuit aimed at unlicensed manufacturers – this started back in August of 2021 when the an Francisco District Chaser'southward Function, joined by Giffords and Keker, Van Nest, and Peters, LLP, filed a arrange against Glockstore, Blackhawk, and MDX Operation which was joined by the Chiliad two months afterwards.

"15 minutes," Bonta said. "That is as lilliputian as it can take to put together."

"We're talking well-nigh a ghost gun kit, 15 minutes, and yous accept a lethal weapon and that's all it can take—right now across the nation and beyond California ghost gun kits are being purchased, sent in the mail or even scheduled for in-store pickup."

Bonta continued, "These weapons take been used in mass shootings. Criminals have used them to murder innocent children in our classrooms. They have been linked to serious crimes here in San Francisco and beyond the nation in America that have ghost gun trouble on hand and taking action in response to that problem."

According to information provided past the San Francisco District Chaser's Office, the kits generally contain unfinished frames and receivers, and tin can be used to assemble a fully functional weapon in equally niggling as 15 minutes and "these untraceable firearms have been used in multiple tragedies in California."

This week I was reading a letter of the alphabet in the local paper supporting the re-ballot of Jeff Reisig by Retired Sgt Dean Nyland, he wrote, "While being a leader in the country in taking "Ghost Guns" off the street, a huge public safety issue."

That was the showtime I had heard of Jeff Reisig existence involved in ghost guns. I did a quick search on the DA's website (yoloda.org) and there is not one mention of ghost guns, not i printing release about it.

I did find a single commodity on Fox40 from Apr 2 – nearly viii months after Chesa Boudin first announced his lawsuit against ghost gun manufacturers.

It reports, "Northern California district attorneys are working to remove the threat of illegally manufactured guns."

"California is actually leading the nation in pulling these ghost guns off the street. They're everywhere," Yolo County Commune Attorney Jeff Reisig told FOX40.

He added, "Ghost guns, or what nosotros like to call privately-manufactured firearms. There were many and they're dangerous and scary weapons… They're untraceable. They're untrackable. There's no manner for police force enforcement or everyone to know who has them and where they're being used. And that'south what's most unsafe about them. And they're showing up in tearing gang crimes all along across the region. And as well, unfortunately, in some really tragic domestic violence cases."

Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert, coincidentally running against Bonta for AG also jumped on board.

"The number of Illegal guns, including ghost guns, on the streets of our communities is alarming. We must aggressively investigate, prosecute and hold accountable felons and others who are illegally making these guns and flooding our streets with these dangerous weapons," said Schubert.

Not surprisingly however, this is the but mention of either of them with respect to ghost guns.

This week, the Biden Administration appear a crack downward on ghost guns. Biden announced that "the U.S. Department of Justice has issued a concluding dominion to rein in the proliferation of "ghost guns" – unserialized, privately-made firearms that police force enforcement are increasingly recovering at crime scenes in cities beyond the country."

The White House said, "Last year alone, there were approximately xx,000 suspected ghost guns reported to ATF as having been recovered by law enforcement in criminal investigations – a x-fold increment from 2016."

They added, "Because ghost guns lack the serial numbers marked on other firearms, police enforcement has an exceedingly difficult time tracing a ghost gun found at a crime scene dorsum to an individual purchaser."

The new executive society "bans the business organization of manufacturing the almost attainable ghost guns, such as unserialized "buy build shoot" kits that individuals tin can buy online or at a store without a background check and can readily assemble into a working firearm in every bit little as 30 minutes with equipment they accept at home."

Bonta this calendar week announced that he backed the new ATF ruling.

"Practise-it-yourself ghost gun kits allow anyone with a credit bill of fare and an net connexion to purchase and build a fully operable, untraceable weapon," California Attorney Full general Rob Bonta said in a statement. "Without effective oversight, the availability of ghost guns, unfinished frames, and receivers allows dangerous individuals to access firearms under the radar of police force enforcement. They are a clear and present danger to public safety. Here in California, we have been at the forefront of the fight confronting ghost guns and we are pleased to meet this new rule, which will bring federal law upwards to speed. Together, nosotros tin better monitor ghost guns and increase public safety in California and across our nation."

One of the problem was a Trump-era rule that so-chosen "lxxx%" frames and receivers were not considered firearms under the federal Gun Control Act. That allowed ghost guns to escape regulation.

Of course leading the way on this upshot is non Jeff Reisig, but people similar Chesa Boudin and Rob Bonta who were eight months out in front of this consequence.

"Our lawsuit alleges that Blackhawk and MDX and Glockstore are breaking the law offset that they are evading the assembly of firearms law," Boudin said in October, which requires those who purchase the frame and kit to "apply to the California Department of Justice for a serial number and a background check."

He said he hopes that this volition "help raise sensation about a truthful epidemic of gun violence in our communities, and nigh the of import piece of work we are doing equally a team to fight back. As the attorney full general said this pressing issue requires all of our all-time efforts. It requires all of our collaboration and teamwork to succeed, to relieve lives."

Boudin warned, "In 2020 ghost guns were associated with nearly seventy percentage of gun-related homicides. We've seen a several grand percent increase in just five years in the number of ghost guns that are being seized past police officers in this metropolis."