The Supreme Court is reinstating a regulation aimed at curbing the number of ghost guns, or firearms without serial numbers. Area law enforcement say it will help them track firearms.
Assembled from kits bought online, or at gun shows, there are no serial numbers for tracking. Shomo said, "We don’t know where it came from, who had it, who possessed it, who bought it, who bought the parts to make it."
In 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives , in an effort to limit ghost guns, forced the makers and sellers of gun kits to get licenses, etch the parts with serial numbers and do background checks. The rule was challenged, but this week the Supreme Court kept the restrictions in place.
Great news say police in Camden, and over the river in Philadelphia, where more than 900 ghost guns have turned up since last year. Shomo believes the new rules will enhance the ability of police to trace the weapons and learn more about their purchase. As guns in boxes are piled high in the evidence room of Camden County Police, officers take hundreds of guns off the streets here yearly. The revived ghost gun rules may help them get to the source of this new wave of weapons.
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