ghost gun
description: a firearm made by an individual, lacking serial numbers and often avoiding regulation
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Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists
by Joan Smith · 5 Apr 2019
of his firearms, ordering him to hand over his guns, and he surrendered a single pistol. But Neal knew enough about weapons to make a ‘ghost’ gun at home, a semi-automatic rifle like the ones used in so many mass shootings, and he also managed to get hold of two handguns
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson · 25 Sep 2023 · 525pp · 166,724 words
be tracked by the government. Beginning in the 2010s, a cottage industry arose employing Stoner’s design to build untraceable weapons, which police started calling “ghost guns.” The gun’s easy assembly made it simple. Under federal law, the only part of a gun that was deemed a firearm was the receiver
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five people in a November 2017 rampage using ARs that he made himself. By 2020, American law enforcement agencies had recovered about twenty-four thousand ghost guns in criminal investigations, many of them AR-15s. A federal counterterrorism task force warned that “criminals and violent extremists continue to seek ways to acquire
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firearms through the production” of ghost guns. On January 6, 2021, President Trump addressed more than ten thousand supporters gathered for what was billed as a “Save America” rally on the National
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-for-pro-gun-rally-in-richmond-11579516202. A Northern California man: Zusha Elinson, “The Rise of Untraceable ‘Ghost Guns,’” The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rise-of-untraceable-ghost-guns-1515061800. By 2020, American law enforcement: Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team (JCAT), “First Responders Toolkit,” June 22, 2021
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