District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced the lawsuit at a news conference, alongside advocates of tougher gun laws. Police in San Francisco and other cities across the country have seen an explosion in the numbers of ghost guns seized over the past year. In San Francisco, police seized 164 ghost guns in 2020, a 2,600% increase from the six confiscated in 2016. In 2020, California accounted for 65% of all ghost guns seized by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a statement from Boudin's office said. Earlier this month, two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies badly wounded in an ambush shooting last year sued a Nevada company, Polymer80 Inc., for making the parts for a ghost gun used in the attack.

Source: ABC News August 18, 2021 23:15 UTC