CBS News is pumping out the fear porn this week over a supposed “fire sale” of so-called “ghost guns” as the Biden restrictions on homemade firearms are set to kick in next week, on Aug. 24.
After Wednesday, purchasers of certain gun parts and kits will need to undergo a background check and all homemade firearms will have to be serialized.
Supporters of the new rules believe they will make it harder for bad guys to obtain firearms.
“For the end user, if you’re a responsible gun owner who wants to make their own weapons, you’re not going to have any effect – no change, really. It’s just going to make it the same process you’d go through to buy a finished gun,” David Pucino, the Deputy Chief Counsel at Giffords Law Center, told CBS News.
“However, if you’re a criminal actor, somebody who’s trying to skirt those laws, you’re not going to be able to anymore because you’re not going to be able to get sourcing for the parts used to make these ghost guns,” he added.
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Unless, of course, that criminal actor uses a straw purchaser or buys them on the black market or steals them from a family member, or borrows them from a friend — which is overwhelmingly how criminals source fully finished firearms.
The truth is that the majority of violent criminals in this country right now have no problem sourcing fully finished firearms, let alone gun parts. These new restrictions will not keep bad guys from getting guns.
As Erich Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, noted in a recent article on the subject, “The White House claims that serializing firearms is necessary to stop criminals, but in reality, there is no evidence that registering firearms — or stamping them with serial numbers — prevents crime.”
“Virtually every gun used in a crime already has a serial number,” Pratt continued.
Additionally, while the proliferation of homemade firearms at crime scenes has increased over the past few years, they are still fairly uncommon. As Pratt pointed out:
According to the Department of Justice, privately made firearms were found at 692 homicide or attempted homicide crime scenes over a six-year period. That means that, at worst, out of more than 16,000 yearly murders, homemade guns are used in around 115 homicides per year. That’s far fewer murders than many common items which are easily found around one’s house — such as knives (1,476), hammers or blunt objects (397), or fists and feet (600).
It’s also worth noting that the term “ghost gun” can be used to describe commercially produced firearms that have had the serial number scraped off. So, not all “ghost guns” recovered at crime scenes were built from gun parts and kits.
The bottom line is that the panic over so-called “ghost guns” is unwarranted. And, these new regulations will be entirely ineffectual — save for the fact that they will have a negative impact on lawful gun owners.
As do-it-yourselfer “Bob” told CBS News, “The laws are going to discourage a lot of people like me who like to make sure everything is above board. They’re going to be discouraging people from going out and participating in this hobby.”
Discouraging lawful hobbyists IS the purpose of this decree (not law, since not passed by Congress).
Fun fact CBS is a acronym for ‘ Complete Bull Shit.
Do we really expect the mainstream media to accurately portray home made AR-15 parts? These 80% lower receivers are not easy to complete like they attempt to show in the video. It takes someone who knows what they are doing to finish an 80% lower receiver. And if you transfer the firearm parts to a restricted person you and the person buying have both committed a felony.
Biden administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms will see Gun Owners of America in court. They cannot just pull laws out of their magic hat. You need to go through Congress to make laws.
The Democrats are so clueless what’s going on they don’t understand that a criminal is going to do everything they say to make the law better they should know it’s stupid as hell to think the criminals are going to follow the law they are so clueless
Serialization of firearms is the most useless of control devices. It’s only function is to track a firearm from the manufacturer to the point of sale. After that, it is in the wind and if a serialized firearm was used in a crime and they even bother to trace it, they will found out the fellow who bought it long ago sold it, gave it away or it was stolen. I had several firearms of all types decades ago and sold every one of them to one fellow 40 years ago except my Ruger Super 6 .22 and S&W Chief. I now have more that I did back then, but always wondered what happened to that bunch I sold so long ago. I sold on Gunbroker, and delivered in person, a serialized lower I had built up with collapsing stock, but never had an upper on it, but in that case I got the fellows FFL just in case. I still worry about that one now in then when somebody uses and AR for bad stuff. The serial number will lead to you if bought in a store, get all your ducks in a row if the ATF comes a knocking looking for it, but knowing where a firearm went after it was built will never prevent, retard or stop a crime.
Sorry, but criminals aren’t going to take the time to order the parts needed to build a firearm, let alone milling the 80% lower. All of which require a credit card and most only ship to the credit card billing address. Not to mention that you are waiting 1 to 2 weeks for delivery. More likely is that they will steal the firearm or find a highpoint on the street for well under $300.
What did these clueless lefty moron dunces expect?
Did they expect 80% manufacturers, distributors, and resellers to just happily destroy their inventory and take a loss in their investment?
Silly liberals! Carry on with your stupidity!
Will it do anything to stop “criminals?” NO….laws generally don’t. Will it “discourage” me from building another home firearm? NOT REALLY….just another Form 4473 to fill out. A waste of time and taxpayer money? YES…as most parts of gubbmint are
Serial numbers on firearms have contributed to the solving of an astonishingly low number of crimes. The serial number issue is just gas lighting.