Biden's ghost gun apparitions

 Washington Examiner:

President Joe Biden’s regulation targeting so-called ghost guns, or firearms assembled at home from unregistered components, targets a problem that Democrats have characterized as an urgent threat to public safety.

But ghost guns account for relatively few of the illegal guns police are encountering on the streets, even as law enforcement experts say they are seeing the weapons more frequently now than in recent years.

In Philadelphia, ghost guns accounted for just 9% of guns recovered by police in 2021.

In New York City, police confiscated more than 6,000 illegal guns last year, and only about 200 of them were ghost guns.

During the first 11 months of 2021, police officers in Chicago recovered 8,854 guns — just 455 of those were ghost guns.

Law enforcement officers recovered fewer than 23,000 ghost guns in total across the country from 2016 to 2020.

Biden’s regulatory action on ghost guns changes the definition of a firearm to contain some of the parts necessary to assemble firearms at home, including frames and receivers in the definition.

The change would require frames and receivers, key parts of ghost guns, to be treated like firearms under the law, meaning customers who purchase them must submit to background checks like those who purchase regular guns.

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This does not look like much of a crime-stopper. The crooks appear to still be able to access illegal guns that they do not have to assemble.

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