According to Firearm Chronicles
The weapon of choice for a growing number of criminals has no serial number, can’t be traced to a manufacturer, and doesn’t require a background check for purchase. It is sold at gun shows and over the internet — not as a functioning gun, but in a kit of disassembled parts. Buyers use their own tools, including electric drills and sandpaper, to build a handgun or assault rifle.
It’s called a ghost gun, and such weapons have been seized by Philadelphia police 10 times this year already.
Wow. A whole 10 times in a city of nearly 1.6 million people.
Clearly, it’s an epidemic!
Meanwhile, as Cam noted in a post yesterday, Philly has bigger problems. In particular: police department tweet.
Ghost guns seem like the least of their problems. Especially since it looks like something of a non-issue.
After all, a whole 10 “ghost guns” in the first two and a half months may sound like a lot until you consider just how many other firearms were likely seized during this same time period. We’re talking orders of magnitude of a difference. Ghost guns don’t represent any real significant threat to the people of Philadelphia.
This is why most media outlets only make vague references to the supposedly growing threat posed by these weapons without giving us hard numbers to evaluate for ourselves. As it stands, we can see the size of the threat facing Philadelphia and it’s less than the threat COVID-19 is to my own hometown.