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Old 12-10-2024, 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by JMintzer View Post
A '"Ghost Gun" is a gun with a home-made receiver with NO serial #.

It is easy to mill from a block of aluminum or via 3D printing. The the receiver can be made to look like a Glock and once you add the addition (Glock) parts, you have what LOOKS like a Glock...

The other arts are easily and LEGALL available to pruchse and have NO identifying markings.

THAT is the definition of a ghost gunt and the media is using the term correctly...
My point was more that the media doesn't actually know. They see a pic where you can't see the serial number and assume it's a ghost gun. If they used the word correctly in this case they just got lucky. They prove pretty routinely they don't know anything about guns, for instance calling an AR 15 a weapon of war.