ghost guns

Rules that put kits used to build “ghost guns” in the same legal category as traditional firearms went into effect after judges declined requests to halt them.

A threat of workplace violence resulted in an arrest and the discovery of a stash of ghost guns at a Riverside County home, authorities said.

The suit alleges that Nevada-based Polymer80 intentionally undermines firearms laws by designing, manufacturing, and providing kits and parts without serial numbers to buyers who do not undergo background checks.

Some locals said on Monday that they were eager to see harsher regulations to get ghost guns off the street, while others question how it could impact business at local gun stores

The Biden administration is unveiling a completed rule aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced on Monday new rules and regulations regarding the sale of “ghost guns.”

The Biden administration will come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule — aimed at reining in privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes — as soon as Monday, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

President Joe Biden on Monday took fresh aim at ghost guns, the privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up in violent crimes, as he struggles to break through gridlock in Washington to address gun deaths and mass shootings.

LAPD gun buyback program was able to recover 17 assault weapons, 250 firearms, including 15 ghost guns. The program’s mission is to keep LA safe with less firearms in the public.

California may try an innovative new way to deter illegal weapons, spurred most recently by a mass shooting near the state Capitol.

The Nevada-based company accounted for nearly 90 percent of handmade guns recovered in Los Angeles last year, records show. Amid civil lawsuits, Polymer80 says it follows the law

An NBC News review found dozens of videos, with more than 4.6 million combined views, showing how to make “ghost guns.”

The City Council Tuesday unanimously approved an ordinance to prohibit the possession, purchase, sale, receipt and transportation of “ghost guns” in Los Angeles.

The LAPD said Friday that so-called “ghost guns” had been used in 24 murders, eight attempted murders, 60 assaults with deadly weapons, and 20 armed robberies so far in 2021, amid a swell in killings, shootings, and street violence most often committed with firearms.

The use and possession of unmarked and unregistered firearms will soon be banned in San Diego as Mayor Todd Gloria prepares to sign an ordinance passed by the City Council in an effort to curb firearm-related violence.

The 12-year-old boy who died in Chula Vista in early July accidentally shot himself with a ghost gun a friend brought over to his house during a sleepover, police confirmed Friday. A ghost gun is a personally manufactured firearm that lacks a commercial serial number and can easily become untraceable due to the lack of identifying markings. The 12-year-old boy...

Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies badly wounded in an ambush shooting last year sued a Nevada company Monday for making the parts for a “ghost gun” used in the attack.

Untraceable, homemade firearms commonly known as “ghost guns” are turning up at potential crime scenes by the tens-of-thousands and have become popular weapons of choice among terrorists and violent extremists, according to leaked report from federal law enforcement officials.

The Justice Department on Friday released a proposed rule that would broaden the definition of a firearm, requiring some gun-making kits to include a serial number

A father who lost his daughter in a school shooting where the teenaged killer used a ghost gun reacts to President Joe Biden’s executive action to confront gun violence. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, April 8, 2021.