According to Firearm Chronicles
A couple of months into the pandemic and we still have an awful lot going on. People are staring job loss in the face. Smart people know that extra $600 a week in their unemployment checks isn’t going to last forever, even as their employment fades into the mists. Others are oblivious to the reality picking up speed and coming down the hill right toward them like the boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Shelves in the supermarkets are still looking a little lean. People all over the country are reporting shortages on staples like beef, to say nothing of toilet paper still being hard to come by. Further, there’s little reason to see this situation doing anything but potentially getting worse in the coming weeks.
So, to address this, do you think various members of Congress are focused like a laser on this?
Of course not. Not when they can score political points by going after guns, especially the scary-sounding “ghost guns.” Senate Democrats introduced a bill banning untraceable “ghost” guns Thursday amid concerns that the coronavirus pandemic is fueling a spike in demand for the weapons.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) led a group of 15 senators in introducing the Untraceable Firearms Act, which would cover both the ghost guns, their components like unfinished frames and receivers and gun-making kits. The legislation would also require that online kit manufacturers and distributors have a manufacturer’s license, put a serial number on the kits’ frame or receiver and conduct background checks on purchasers.