According to Firearm Chronicles
Time and time again, we keep hearing how there’s a growing epidemic of “ghost guns” being used in violent crime. Now, I don’t think this is made up out of thin air. I can see why a ghost gun would be attractive to a criminal, but not any more than any other black market gun. Sure, they could build one themselves if they wanted, but most aren’t that industrious. They probably buy them from illegal manufacturers–people who are already breaking existing laws by doing so.
Yet we keep hearing the problem is growing.
Now, an Omaha, Nebraska news station has reported these guns have started showing up on their city’s streets.
Law enforcement works hard taking guns off the street. It’s even tougher when they’re homemade. Something called “Ghost guns” by some in law enforcement are impossible to track.
Another one just showed up in Omaha.
One? A whole gun just showed up?
After all, if we were talking tens of thousands of these guns, you know they’d tell us. They’d make it a point to tell us so they could justify bans on such things.
Where this news outlet screwed up was giving us a point to quantify the issue.
A whole gun.
In Omaha, Nebraska. A state where there are probably thousands of such weapons.
Now, Omaha ain’t exactly New York or Chicago, but with over 468,000 people, it’s not exactly small-town America, either. If a single gun is showing up is what’s inducing this degree of hysteria, just how pathetic are the numbers everywhere else these stories have popped up? Well, we have an idea, actually.
It seems the ATF has found 50 “ghost guns” all throughout the midwest.
A whole 50.
Let’s consider that Chicago is considered “midwest” for a moment. So is St. Louis.
These are two of the most violent cities in the country, and throughout the entire region they occupy, a total of 50 of these guns were found. Sorry if I’m not particularly alarmed.