The proliferation ofghost guns, a homemade gun assembled from parts that can be purchased without a background check, will be the subject of a final rule by President Joe Biden on Monday.
Ghost guns are on display at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department.
The White House said that the Biden administration will announce a ban on the manufacturing of ghost gun kits that can be purchased without a background check.
The White House says that the kits qualify as firearms under the Gun Control Act and that sellers need to be licensed and run background checks before selling them.
According to the White House, the rule requires licensed gunmakers to seize ghost guns and serialize them.
As long as they are in business, commercial sellers will have to keep records of ghost gun sales.
The final rule came two months after the Biden administration announced the National Ghost Gun Enforcement Initiative to offer tools and guidance to help bring cases against those who use the firearms to commit crimes.
20,000. According to the White House, the number of suspected ghost guns law enforcement reported recovering last year was ten times greater than in the previous year.
It takes less than an hour for a person with no gunsmithing skills to build a ghost firearm. The organization found that the kit can be had for as little as $345.
Last May, the Biden administration proposed a rule that would change how ghost guns are treated. The weapons that are bought and sold as parts to be put together are not regulated by the ATF. It is not possible to know how many ghost guns are in circulation or how much purchases have gone up because of the product's lack of serial number. According to CBS News, a senior administration official told reporters on Sunday that the ATF was able to trace fewer than one percent of the ghost guns linked to criminal investigations between 2016 and 2021. According to CBS, the official said that almost 700 of the incidents were homicides or attempted homicides. According to Everytown for Gun Safety, more than 60 percent of online firearms sellers began selling ghost gun kits within the past five years. In the past few years, the ghost guns have been used in a number of shootings, including in Santa Monica, California in which five people were killed and several others were injured.
The Constitution does not allow the federal government to prevent you from making your own firearm, according to Rep. Thomas Massie.
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Ghost Guns are an issue now.
The Biden administration wants to restrict the sale of homemade guns. (Forbes)
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