I am so tired of hearing the term "Ghost gun". It is as made up as climate change and gun violence. Three terms that are so wide and so ambiguous that they cover massive amounts of things that have very little to do with the "subject" matter so they can net more than they are attacking.
The temperature goes up, climate change, the temperature goes down, climate change, the temperature stays level for two long, you guess it climate change.
A mentally ill person kills themselves with a firearm, gun violence, an LEO uses their firearm to save a bus full of nuns from a car jacker, gun violence, a single mom protecting herself and her kids form a home invader with a firearm, you guessed it gun violence.
Ghost guns are no different. A person makes a firearm for personal use that is not serialized, in accordance with Federal law, ghost gun. If you bought a CMP (Civilian Marksmanship Program)firearm, a government run program under a number of different names until 1996 when it was divested from the US Army's watch and the CMP was created, government sponsored ghost gun. From 1903 until 1996 the US Government funded and supplied firearms to civilians that sometimes had no serial number, like my CMP Mossberg 44US rifle with no SN just "Property of the US Government" stamped on it. You own a firearm made before The Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1968 and it is not serialized, ghost gun.
The writing is on the wall already that they will not stop there. Take this image for example. I have requested a historical letter from Colt on my New Army .38 Long Colt of 1901. The initial SN look up came back with 20 other Colt firearms from 1860 to 1950 with the same SN. 9 of those 20 are just cosmetic variations of the Colt New Army revolver with superficial alterations such as textured triggers and back straps. Other than superficial alterations they are all the same revolver produced over a 49 year window. I think this will be the next area the left attacks.
We are told ghost guns are bad because police cannot easily trace them after a crime. Well it's hard to track a firearms when that SN is on 20 different firearms and at least 9 of those 20 are the same basic weapon. Now expand that of thousands of firearms.
When the left says they are not coming after your guns, that's true. They are coming after your firearm and your granddad's 120 year old firearm because the manufacture used that SN over and over again and we can't confuse the cops. So, your firearm has to go.