ghost guns

The suit alleges that Nevada-based Polymer80 intentionally undermines firearms laws by designing, manufacturing, and providing kits and parts without serial numbers to buyers who do not undergo background checks.

The San Jose City Council approved a new ordinance aimed at making it harder to buy, sell and make so-called ghost guns in San Jose. Gun regulation advocates cheered the new law, but not everyone thinks this will make a difference. Marianne Favro reports.

San Jose officials unanimously approved a ban on ghost guns, marking the city’s latest effort to tighten the use of firearms.

California state lawmakers advanced a measure Tuesday that would make it easier to skirt a federal law in order to sue gun-makers, legislation that opponents say is ultimately aimed at driving manufacturers out of business.

Trying to make our streets safer from gun violence. That’s the goal of a summit held Monday featuring President Joe Biden and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo. The result was new measures targeting so-called ghost guns. Scott Budman reports.

The Biden administration is unveiling a completed rule aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced on Monday new rules and regulations regarding the sale of “ghost guns.”

The Biden administration will come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule — aimed at reining in privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes — as soon as Monday, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

President Joe Biden on Monday took fresh aim at ghost guns, the privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up in violent crimes, as he struggles to break through gridlock in Washington to address gun deaths and mass shootings.

California may try an innovative new way to deter illegal weapons, spurred most recently by a mass shooting near the state Capitol.

The Nevada-based company accounted for nearly 90 percent of handmade guns recovered in Los Angeles last year, records show. Amid civil lawsuits, Polymer80 says it follows the law

California law enforcement officials say the gunman who killed his three daughters, a chaperone who was supervising his visit with the children and himself in a church was armed with an unregistered “ghost gun.”

Three Santa Clara County residents are accused of churning out high-powered, custom-ordered guns for buyers from a “sophisticated ghost gun factory” hidden inside a home in San Jose’s quiet Willow Glen neighborhood, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

Three Santa Clara County residents are accused of churning out high-powered, custom-ordered guns for buyers from a “sophisticated ghost gun factory” hidden inside a home in San Jose’s quiet Willow Glen neighborhood, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. Senior Investigative Reporter Stephen Stock reports.

An NBC News review found dozens of videos, with more than 4.6 million combined views, showing how to make “ghost guns.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is joining a lawsuit targeting three online sellers of “ghost guns,” the untraceable firearms made from build-it-yourself kits that he said can be assembled in minutes and are increasingly being used in violent crimes.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office is joining a lawsuit targeting three online sellers of “ghost guns,” the untraceable firearms made from build-it-yourself kits that he said are increasingly being used in violent crimes.

The 12-year-old boy who died in Chula Vista in early July accidentally shot himself with a ghost gun a friend brought over to his house during a sleepover, police confirmed Friday. A ghost gun is a personally manufactured firearm that lacks a commercial serial number and can easily become untraceable due to the lack of identifying markings. The 12-year-old boy...

Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies badly wounded in an ambush shooting last year sued a Nevada company Monday for making the parts for a “ghost gun” used in the attack.