The big push on “ghost guns” looks like it was kickstarted by a comment from a retired agent after Biden’s inauguration. The linked annotation conveniently goes nowhere. We don’t know where the ATF gets this number and the claims from different agency mouthpieces conflict. … Last year alone, there were approximately 20,000 suspected ghost guns reported to ATF as having been recovered by law enforcement in criminal investigations – a ten-fold increase from 2016. Department of Justice has issued a final rule to rein in the proliferation of “ghost guns” – unserialized, privately-made firearms that law enforcement are increasingly recovering at crime scenes in cities across the country. ![]() Federal law prohibits these hobbyists from selling these legal builds without serial numbers. It is perfectly legal for a hobbyist who wants to build a rifle or handgun for their own personal use to do so and you’re not required to add a serial number to your hunk of metal during the build. Drilling out portions of the aluminum in specific ways brings this chunk of aluminum to meet the definition of a “firearm” as defined by the Gun Control Act. It describes an inoperable and unfinished portion of a firearm that a hobbyist can fabricate at home. ![]() The term “80% lower” is industry slang for a receiver/frame (whether rifle or handgun), a blank, an unserialized chunk of a type of aluminum or polymer that is inoperable and cannot operate unless it goes through further stages of fabrication/manufacturing.
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