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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (29 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Ghost guns are unregulated firearms that anyone — including minors and prohibited purchasers — can buy and build without a background check.

3D printed guns fall solidly into this category.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Why are these an issue though? It is not like people can just print the ammunition too. So they can only buy them with a gun license anyways.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yep, if you're a criminal making ghost guns to commit crimes because you can't pass a background check to buy a gun (and then scratch the serial number off), then it's already a crime for you to have that ghost gun because you're a prohibited person.

Requiring a serial number changes nothing and only affects nerds, not criminals.

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