California rampage puts spotlight on homemade 'ghost guns'

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Criminals do not obey the laws or court orders.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The gunman who killed his wife and four others in a rampage in Northern California this week found an easy way around a court order prohibiting him from having guns: He built his own at home.

Kevin Neal, 44, was armed with what authorities believe were two high-powered rifles that he made himself when he opened fire Tuesday on homes, cars and an elementary school around his tiny hometown of Rancho Tehama Reserve. A deputy finally shot and killed him.

"The more restrictive the laws become for people to purchase firearms, we're going to see those criminal elements build their own," Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said. "That's what they do."

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/california-shooting-rampage-highlights-ghost-guns-185746544.html
 
As "law" continueds to become divorced and even more distant from fundamental right and wrong this sort of thing will be more common, and not just amongst the mass murder types.
 
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Criminals do not obey the laws or court orders.

"The more restrictive the laws become for people to purchase firearms, we're going to see those criminal elements build their own," Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said. "That's what they do."

We should make it illegal for criminals to own firearms. That would solve all our problems.

It would be worth all the hard work politicians would have to put into it to come up with a flimsy sheet of paper with those protective words on it to use as an impenetrable shield against criminals.
 
Did he actually mill his own receiver, or did he just buy some parts from PSA and assemble his own? The article talks a lot about making your own (without serial numbers, which stop crime and all that) and what other people have done, but doesn't actually say what the killer did. So in this case the "spotlight" is being shined on .... what? History? Fiction?

They said they found him with a "bushmaster", so I'm guessing bushmaster is going to have to sue him for copyright infringement since he apparently branded his ghost with their name?
 
When some loonie commits a crime like this, does the act of "tracing a firearm" prevent its illegal use ? Its forensic metadata that prevented nothing. Bad guy gets a weapon any way they can. If they run a truck into a crowd does it matter if they stole someone else's rusty and repossessed used truck that is unregistered with expired plates or if they walked into the local Ford dealer and paid cash and got an extended warranty ?

Far more troubling is the comments from family and friends that see people behaving aggressively or bizzarely for a long period of time and say nothing till the big bang happens. Folks have got to stop avoiding this issue.

Article also neglects to mention that there are probably are enough legal AR components ( including 80% receivers) already in circulation to last for another hundred years or more. The Left is pretty tone-deaf and it shows in every gun related story they write.
 
ghost guns. I LMAO every time I hear it, simply thanks to this shmuck:
They get so badly bent out of shape when you criticize them for improper terminology, but it just proves they don't know what they're blabbering on about.
 
They get so badly bent out of shape when you criticize them for improper terminology, but it just proves they don't know what they're blabbering on about.

If you watch that entire episode, that guy could't even teach 3rd grade ESL classes much less describe why a semi-auto has an 'engine' and how it evades metal detectors when the lower IS METAL.
 
Liberal "logic":
If a criminal wants a gun but can't buy one because guns are banned then he'll just build one. Therefore anyone who builds a gun is a criminal.
 
Our history with Prohibition should indicate what would happen with a federal gun ban. There is no way to eliminate all the guns and an unintended consequence may be rampant crime with organizations that have and produce weapons.


Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. During the 19th century, alcoholism, family violence, and saloon-based political corruption prompted activists, led by pietistic Protestants, to end the alcoholic beverage trade to cure the ill society and weaken the political opposition.


In the 1920s the laws were widely disregarded, and tax revenues were lost. Very well organized criminal gangs took control of the beer and liquor supply for many cities, unleashing a crime wave that shocked the nation.
 
Our history with Prohibition should indicate what would happen with a federal gun ban. There is no way to eliminate all the guns and an unintended consequence may be rampant crime with organizations that have and produce weapons.
This is also what brought us the NFA act in 1934 that was refined by the GCA in 68 - two very unconstitutional pieces of legislation that need to be either ignored or preferably repealed.
 
Witnessed something the other day at the WS gunshow - a firearm that was fashioned out of a 10/22 receiver and some PVC piping and other items found at the hardware store.

Reminds me of prisoners too - with enough time on their hands they can figure out some pretty interesting things.
 
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