Ghost Guns

Ghost Guns

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Robocalls, Ghost Guns, Corporal Punishment

Episode: Robocalls, Ghost Guns, Corporal Punishment

  • Jun 30, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 17:29 mins

For a couple of hundred bucks, you can buy a kit online to make a gun. There’s no background check to buy the kit, and the parts have no serial numbers, so the gun you assemble is untraceable. The weapon is sometimes called a “ghost gun.” The Biden Administration wants to eliminate the ghost part of these guns. Emergency medicine physician Garen Wintemute has been following the rising popularity of ghost guns. He’s director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California Davis. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)