Mail order guns. Zip guns. Saturday night specials. Automatic (semiautomatic) weapons. Assault weapons. Those are just a few of the buzzwords used by gun banners to scare folks over my lifetime, demanding they be banned to stop crime. Now the buzzword is “ghost gun.”
I watched Biden talk about guns and his planned bans last week with disgust but not surprise. From the stupid claim that the 2nd Amendment has something to do with deer hunting to the flat out lie that gun manufacturers are the only ones protected from libility lawsuits, he was either totally ill-informed or intentionally making “stuff” up.
A few years ago gun banners started suing gun manufacturers and businesses selling guns when a gun was used in a crime, trying to sue them out of business. If you believe in that tactic you believe if someone buys a gallon of gasoline and burns their house down, the gas station selling it and the corporation producing it should be sued.
It got so bad a bipartisan congress passed a law against frivolous lawsuits suing gun manufactures when their product was misused. That makes them equal to and have exactly the same liability as every other manufacturer in the US.
Liability laws apply to defects in products, not when they work but are misused. If a gun malfunctions due to a defect and hurts someone, the manufacturer can be sued. Now the tactic is to sue gun businesses for advertising, saying they are promoting a dangerous item to unstable people.
That worked, Remington Arms is bankrupt due to this underhanded tactic. Unfortunately, Remington’s insurance companies settled out of court although the suers had no proof and it never got a hearing.
Supposedly, some ghost guns are guns put together by individuals from parts and do not have a serial number. It is nothing but a ploy to draw attention from and not face the real problem. As long as you blame an inanimate object for a problem, you are deflecting and fooling folks, not doing anything to help.
It is ironic the day after Biden hyped his gun ban agenda, a regular handgun was used in a mass shooting on the subway in New York City. They media did try to hype the pistol as a dangerous either 380 or 9mm handgun and claimed it had an “extended” magazine.”
No ghost gun used.
The term “ghost gun” can apparently mean any gun without a serial number. Guns manufactured since 1968 had been required to have one. If I want a ghost gun I am going to file the serial number off one of my numerous guns, not go to the trouble of putting together a kit.
Maybe the Biden administration should ban files?
Focusing on a hunk of metal and plastic, rather than the criminal misusing a tool, is idiotic. Currently a felon caught with a gun is often let go, usually within a few days at most, and they are free to steal a gun and file the number off or make their own from a kit. Which do you think they would find easier?
The criminal shooting homeless in New York and Chicago recently was three-time felon. Less than two years before his shooting spree, he was arrested for another felony but released after serving only five months of a one-year sentence after his last arrest because a liberal prosecutor would not charge him with a felony but reduced his charge.
That is the problem, not guns.