Giffords group asks web hosts to shut down ‘ghost gun’ sites

By Chris Eger

Ghost Guns produces and sells several “80 percent” kits for AR-15 and AK-type platforms as well 1911, Glock and Sig-series pistols to include jigs, slides, and tools. (Photo: Ghostguns.com)
A national gun control group is pushing the Internet Service Providers of two popular home-built firearm companies to disable the businesses’ websites.
The group, founded by former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, argues that GhostGunner.net and GhostGuns.com should be taken offline because they allow individuals who may be legally barred from buying a firearm to purchase kits that allow them to assemble guns themselves. As such, they contend the companies’ ISPs– Shopify and Dreamhost, respectively– are contractually entitled to shut the websites down.
The Giffords group frames their argument by citing homemade guns used in a series of murders earlier this month by a man in Tehama County, California who was a prohibited from possessing firearms.
“Companies that are more worried about making money than the safety of the public or law enforcement officials sworn to protect them shouldn’t be given a platform to sell their products,” said Robyn Thomas, of the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.  “It’s time to turn off the lights on these sites so these companies won’t be able to

Source: Guns.com