According to Firearm Chronicles
The state of New York has an awful lot on its plate. It’s pretty much the epicenter for the COVID-19 outbreak at the moment with New York City having the lion’s share of infected in the nation. Yet it seems, at least for the attorney general, that the novel coronavirus that has sparked a shutdown of the world’s economy isn’t the real threat out there.
Oh, no, that comes from “ghost guns” and the fact that some people might totally make a gun without the government’s permission or something.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, as part of a multistate coalition of 25 attorneys general from around the nation, has called on the Trump Administration to enforce federal laws and stop companies from disseminating dangerous files for 3D-printed gun files on the internet. In a letter to Secretary Michael Pompeo of the U.S. Department of State and United States Attorney General William Barr of the U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General James and the coalition called on the federal government to stop the company Defense Distributed from unlawfully releasing easily downloadable files with specifications for particular guns — including the “Liberator” pistol and a number of other weapons — which would then give individuals the ability to manufacture unregistered and untraceable 3D-printed firearms that can be extremely difficult to detect, even with a metal detector. Untraceable firearms are sometimes called “ghost guns” because they lack a serial number or other identifying features.