Three years later, homemade weapons known as “ghost guns” have risen to the top of the Biden administration’s policy agenda. But as the role of ghost guns in high profile criminal cases has grown, community violence reduction workers warn of the less visible toll ghost guns are taking : ghost guns, they say, have become a hot commodity in many vulnerable communities, a trend that has only intensified during the pandemic. First from friends who bought a ghost gun and assembled it, next up were some family members, then his co-workers. In Oakland, 16% of all guns seized by police in 2020 were ghost guns. “You can think a new policy is about the ghost guns but then it leads to harassment.

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2021 09:56 UTC