According to Firearm Chronicles
Picture yourself at the range for a bit of practice. You’re shooting away when you realize that something is wrong. You’ve got a part that’s not quite right. Maybe the weapon is malfunctioning or maybe something is showing signs of stress.
Luckily for you, it’s not the lower receiver, so you can just order a part of the internet and swap it out.
However, if the L.A. County Sheriff gets his way, you won’t.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva calls for increased regulation of “ghost gun” parts in an interview to be broadcast Sunday night on CBS’ “60 Minutes.” Ghost guns, also known as kit guns or 80-percent guns, are virtually untraceable weapons that can be made at home using legally purchased parts to complete the 80% already assembled. They are sold at gun shows and online. The unfinished parts are not required under federal law to have serial numbers or a background check to purchase.
A ghost gun was used in the Nov. 14 shooting attack at Saugus High School that killed two students and wounded three others before the 16-year-old shooter turned the gun on himself and later died, Villanueva said shortly after the shooting. Under a bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 11, the sale of firearm precursor parts would be required to be conducted by or processed through a licensed firearm-precursor-part vendor effective July 1, 2024. Other states also have moved to restrict the sale of ghost gun parts, but Villanueva says that’s not the solution. “You can just defeat it by going to another state,” Villanueva said.
In other words, Los Angeles is having a problem with this, so the rest of us should be penalized for it.The problem here is that there’s no part on a firearm that is so difficult to produce that it can’t be made otherwise. Even the lower receiver, the very part the ATF has ruled constitutes a firearm, isn’t an insurmountable challenge. Hell, there have been people who built AK-pattern rifles receivers out of shovels.