Philly TV Station Freaks Over ‘Ghost Guns’

By Tom Knighton

All over the nation, numerous people take part in kind of an interesting hobby. They build firearms from the ground up using receivers that are only partially built receivers. They finish the receiver then add parts until they have a weapon built to their specifications. That was how I got my first AK-pattern rifle, as a matter of fact. There’s something cool about knowing that you built a gun.

Yet Action News (never heard that name before) in Philadelphia sees this hobby as a problem.

Anyone with a few hundred bucks can buy what’s called a ‘Ghost Gun’ online. Within four hours, we built a semi-automatic firearm in the Action News Investigation office.

And law enforcement now tell Action News these same guns are ending up in the hands of criminals on Philadelphia’s streets.

AK-47s, AR-15s, complete do-it-yourself kits for almost any kind of assault rifle or pistol, are peddled online, to anyone. No ID, background check, date of birth or any identifying information required.

It cost Action News just $600, and five days later our nearly complete weapon arrived at our door.

With the help of complete how-to instructions posted online and an Action News engineer, we drilled out the trigger chamber, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms