What Does the Rise of Homemade Guns Mean for Gun Laws? We Made One To Find Out. | NYT
What Does the Rise of Homemade Guns Mean for Gun Laws? We Made One To Find Out. | NYT
Virtually anyone can buy a kit online to build a gun from parts — without a background check. That raises questions about the future of gun regulation.
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It’s been legal in the US to build your own firearms for centuries. The law is clear: you can build.the firearm for your own use, but it can’t be sold or given to anyone without being serialized.
The serial number is just in case your gun gets lost or stolen. The police will upload the number and see if it was reported stolen. Having a serial number doesn’t mean it is GPS tracked, nobody is going to find you just by that. If you don’t upload your serial number, it is equal to not having one.
“Homemade” is nonsense . That’s like calling an IKEA flat pack a homemade patio set.
It means your unconstitutional gun laws are about as enforceable as prohibition.
Nothing because they are protected by the 2nd amendment
I will be reporting you Jeremy white I hope you go to jail
It would be alot cheaper for a criminal to steal or buy a stolen one off the streets because building a firearm is very expensive hobby you got to buy tools, jigs, speciality tools and have the knowledge and that’s not including the complete part’s kit and part’s kit start at 500 dollar’s.
Mann i need a gun but i can’t get one until im 21 I’m currently 19 and got attacked by dogs and dealt with bangers that tried to check my friend and I . I feel so vulnerable
A serial number isn’t an airtag
Going this route is also more time-consuming, more difficult, and more expensive than just buying a gun off the street, which is pretty much just has untraceable. The only difference is that if someone buys a stolen gun off the street compared to they’re making one of these ghosts guns is that with the stolen gun there is a chance of tracing it back to the original owner. And returning that owner’s property to them. It will do absolutely nothing to trace down the Criminal Who used it!
"Right now, we really don’t know what we don’t know." Yep sounds just like a representative.
Well can’t buy them in U.K. so im not happy
So is the gun the problem or the criminal? Because when Australia banned guns guess what happened sexual assualts spiked. Instead of just focusing on criminals which would make everyone happy you focus on taking away guns which: disadvantage law abiding citizens and help criminals by giving them peace of mind that they won’t be shot. Honestly the left is for thugs and rapists.
So this goober had to leave the state, get experienced builders and use their tools to build one. Seems like he has more means and privilege’s than most criminals.
You realized you broke the law right? I hope New York department of justice arrests your a**
Hopefully you got charged for the gun and did some jail time. One man can only wish
“Ghost guns” 👻 👻 what a funny little word the MSM has invented.
Unfortunately here in Europe all gun parts or kits requires gun permits. It’s imposssible to order anything online,we can pick up guns or ammo just in gunstores,with gun registration of course.
Why do people everyone is out to hurt people lol makes me think they are the crazy ones
You can’t do this In New York
You made one and didn’t go crazy? Really?
I’m the Times reporter building the gun in this video. A couple of weeks ago, I bought a gun kit online with basically no screening. It only took me six hours using some basic tools to assemble a working firearm. They’re called “ghost guns.” There are dozens of sites that sell these kits and some even take Bitcoin. It would be easy to buy one with complete anonymity – so anyone could get a gun kit even if they couldn’t pass a background check.
A lot of people think ghost guns are just 3D printed guns. These kits are kind of the opposite. Instead of adding material with a printer, there’s extra material that needs to be removed. Also worth noting: the finished gun won’t have a serial number on it, so if it’s found at a crime scene there’s no way to trace it back to its owner.
I like building stuff, but I’ve been living in Manhattan for almost a decade, so I’m a bit rusty. Still, I built the gun in a half a day using some YouTube tutorials and basic hand tools. It was harder than I thought, but at the end of the day, I still had a working gun. And I think I could do it much faster next time.
For me, this is a question of access. Pretty much anyone who wants a gun kit can get one. A firearms expert told me the kits themselves won’t increase crime, but law enforcement is worried about their growing popularity.
I’m starting to cover gun issues more for the Times. I did a story earlier this year about assault weapon laws: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/31/us/assault-weapons-ban.html and you can find more stories, gun-related and otherwise, that I’ve done here: https://www.nytimes.com/by/jeremy-white
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Jeremy
Cool stuff!! I’m going to try it!
Yea sure and lets put QR codes on kitchen knifes to trace it back to the owner…..
Why does the government need to know if it exists? Do they plan of doing something bad?
Isn’t any firearm without a serial number illegal, didn’t he make an illegal firearm and post it? I haven’t finished the full video yet(FYI). I’m an avid second amendment supporter, even okay with firearms without serial numbers (still constantly thinking about the morality and legality attached to it). But isn’t what he did VERY illegal?
So the gun is traceable. You simply go pick up grandpa at the nursing home and have him do the purchase.
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Responsible gun owners do not commit crimes. Criminals will get a gun despite gun control, look at Chicago. It’s disgusting how you portray gun owners as some kind of shady criminal when in reality most gun owners just want to protect their family. Not surprised coming from a limp wrist
We will print them from scratch. We cannot be stopped.
"Right now we dont know what we dont know"
Who tf votes for these people??
I’d rather get a factory Glock those guns jamm n are for crooks if you have nothing to hide and are a law abiding citizen then why get a ghost gun unless you’re a weirdo tryna do a crime
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Going to a retired atf agent with a ghost gun big mistake
Nobody outside the left calls this ghostgun 😂
Homemade guns have been legal since 1776
If we just ban the Kits Then there’s no problem Where does the kits come from anyway 🐔🥚😏
Jemery White look like a retired bank robber
Gun control is dead, and there’s nothing you tyrants can do to revive it 😉
This guy really doesn’t get it. The point isn’t that guns should be traceable, it’s that guns CANNOT BE TRACEABLE!!!! So new guns laws wouldn’t do anything but annoy legal gun owners.
The reporter didn’t seem to ask a very important question. How does the serial number make it easier to determine if a gun was used in a crime? If it’s stolen and it shows up in a pawn shop, that’s the only way it would help, but that’s a property crime — not a violent crime, and any pawn shop with an FFL would know that unserialized, homemade guns are not legally transferable.
Murder weapons aren’t sold; they’re discarded. Forensics experts don’t test a potential firearm’s serial number to match it to a crime.
Why did he turn it in? He could have broken the frame and sold the parts without the hassle of a police report
Actually easier to buy a regular gun then these tbh
It means gun laws don’t work
Bet
I could care less what any Govt agent or a NYT reporter has to say
You forgot to talk about how the police actually trace firearms found at crime scenes. And how rarely it’s actually of any help at all during an investigation. But that would poke too many holes I guess…..
It means your Authoritarian dreams are in the toilet.
Don’t feel bad it has been that way since at least 1942.