New York state and city officials filed lawsuits going after gun distributors who sell “ghost guns” that can escape firearm restrictions and be harder to trace.
,” firearms that are privately assembled and don’t have serial numbers, meaning they can’t be tracked and aren’t subject to background checks on purchases or other restrictions.
The lawsuits allege the distributors have sent “unfinished” firearm frames and receivers to people in New York who then use those parts to assemble working guns—without including serial numbers or vetting those they sell to—which allegedly violates laws that prohibit the possession or sale of unfinished frames or receivers.
The gun distributors “[failed] to take the necessary steps—or any steps at all—to keep their ghost gun products” away from people who would be otherwise prohibited from owning a firearm, the state lawsuit alleges, and allegedly “engage in … deception and false advertising” about whether the products they’re selling are legal.
Distributing the ghost gun materials also constitutes an illegal public nuisance, both the state and city lawsuits allege, and “endangers the health and safety” of New Yorkers. The litigation asks the courts to bar the companies from selling and distributing any materials used to make ghost guns, and in the case of the state lawsuit, issue public statements acknowledging their fault, pay damages and turn over the revenue they made off the ghost gun sales.“Defendants persist in endangering the health and safety of the public by delivering to private individuals everything they need to make a deadly firearm at home,” the state lawsuit alleges.175.
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