Those who are advocating for being able to own ghost guns seem to be uneducated about what a ghost gun really is. They compare them to cars, and say that law-abiding citizens are the ones who are being affected; that guns don’t kill but people do; that you should be locked away for using a gun; or that criminals are criminals.
These are all false flag arguments.
First, let me say that I believe in the Second Amendment. I should be able to own a gun to protect myself and my family. However:
Ghost guns are untraceable. So, if I do choose to use it in committing a crime, police investigators have no way to trace it back to me to punish me for committing the crime. If they find it on me, they can’t prove that it was the gun that fired the projectile that killed someone. Yes, real guns can be filed, but it is very hard to remove the rifling on a bullet from inside a barrel after a bullet is fired through it, so it’s still traceable. Investigators can take the real gun, fire a bullet through it and match it to the killing bullet, making it traceable. Bullets passing through a polylactic acid polymer or polyethylene terephthalate glycol barrel melt the barrel, changing the rifling every time. So no way to trace it.
Ghost guns are undetectable. If I choose to take a ghost gun on a plane, there is no metal or density that metal detectors can detect, so now, guns can be on planes. That is not a good scenario. Ghost guns are often made of polylactic acid or polyethylene terephthalate glycol. Both are plastics that are undetectable in all metal detectors. So, a bad person can print a gun at home, take it on a plane, hijack the plane with a real gun, fly it into any building they want to, and there is nothing you can do to stop them.
Ghost guns (all guns, really) have been compared to cars. Did you know that owning a car requires you to be trained, registered as an owner, tested every few years, registered every few years and to have a basic understanding of how to operate it? Guns don’t require this at all in most states so, no, not simple and not the same concept.
About the argument “Ghost guns don’t kill people; people kill people.” People have used every device ever created — from hammers to computer screens — to kill people, and no, they are not all regulated, and neither should they be. But deaths caused by using a device other than a gun are rare. Prove me wrong.
Finally, about this argument: “Convict the criminal, keep them in jail, etc.” Criminals committing a crime are in jail and don’t get released for no reason. They have lawyers who make sure they are charged correctly, prosecutors who add every charge possible and, sometimes, they don’t even commit the crime they are charged with. Gun charges are not dropped willy-nilly; they are dropped to get the criminal to confess easier or to bring in accomplices that maybe had gotten away with it. Police have nothing to do with that.
Educate yourselves, please.
George “Jody” Sweeney
Wyoming
