MaverickNH
NES Member
Justice Department Proposes Rule to Curb Spread of ‘Ghost Guns’
The agency wants to curb “ghost guns” in part because the firearms don’t bear the serial numbers used by law enforcement to track down criminals.
www.wsj.com
“More than 23,000 firearms without serial numbers were recovered by law enforcement from potential crime scenes from 2016 through 2020, the Justice Department said.”
FBI executed 450,000 trace requests in 2019, 373,000 in 2015 and 1200-1500 per day in 2018. So let’s be conservative and say, 1000 trace request per day for 5 years, or 1.825 million trace requests. “Ghost Guns” account for <1% of crime gun trace requests 2016-2020. And those 23k “ghost guns” amount to 0.005% of guns in the US, or 5 in 100k guns.
Biden’s entire gun control platform is focused on symbolic gestures that will markedly infringe on the RKBA.