Photograph of different, uncompleted firearms. The partially machined piece at the bottom of the photo, which has undergone more manufacturing/machining, is considered a firearm under federal law. The upper images are not.
Manufacturers make gun parts known as “80 percenters,” “lower receivers,” or “receiver blanks” that customers can purchase to assemble their own firearms. They come in kits that shipped to gun stores across the country are sometimes called as “ghost guns” because it’s difficult for law enforcement to trace their origins. The businesses that make these parts are not regulated by the ATF and do not require a federal firearms license to sell them as do gun stores.
President Joe Biden had promised on the campaign trail and in subsequent statements that the White House would push Congress to close the loophole that allows the sale of the kits. But in his first year and a half in office, no such law has passed. Businesses were forced to comply with the new mandate that the former classifications of these parts are no longer “valid or authoritative,” despite the fact that no law prevents them from operating, the company says.
Making short range varmint rifles that cost twice as much as other .22s isn’t a great business plan, leaving the serial number off doesn’t seem like a big value add
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So the dumba…. who’s ghost gun(s) are stolen because they were left in the car won’t have to report them stolen, erasing liability when the gun(s) are used in the commission of a crime.
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Learn how to fight PUSSIES! I am a native HOUSTONIAN. I’ve lived in Denver Harbor on the East Side. I lived in Spring Branch, West Side. I lived in Chinatown in Belaire… and work in GREENSPOINT. Never needed a gun. Don’t need one now.