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#Schumer demands fed crackdown on ghost guns after NYC shooting

“Schumer demands fed crackdown on ghost guns after NYC shooting”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a federal crackdown on “ghost guns” amid a staggering surge in seizures of the DIY weapons in New York City.

Schumer (D-NY) lamented that the untraceable firearms that buyers assemble themselves have too often ended up in the wrong hands — such as those of the Bronx teen charged in a shooting Friday that left a 16-year-old girl dead and two others wounded.

“These guns are too easy to build, too hard to trace, and too dangerous to be on our streets,” Schumer told reporters in Manhattan. “Just ask the family of that beautiful 16-year-old who was killed in the Bronx.”

NYPD statistics show a 351% increase in the number of ghost guns recovered by police so far this year. At least 131 of the makeshift firearms were seized between Jan. 1 and Wednesday — compared to just 29 during the same period in 2021.

“The issue of ghost guns is haunting all of New York,” Schumer said.

He called on the federal government to put in place rules that would classify “partially complete” frames and receivers as firearms, which would subject them to gun regulations, including background checks and serial numbers.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a federal crackdown on ghost guns as seizures have surged in New York City recently.
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Schumer held up an example of a ghost gun for sale online.
Schumer held up an example of a ghost gun for sale online.
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Online sellers of ghost gun parts and kits would also be required to register as licensed firearms dealers under the proposed rules.

“It is disgusting, dangerous and dastardly that anyone—a felon, a child, anyone, can go online right now and buy these kits like candy and do real damage or cause serious harm,” Schumer said. “We must unite behind the goal of stopping these ghost guns from proliferating like this.”

Schumer has previously called on the Biden administration to close the ghost gun loophole.

Schumer called ghost guns "too easy to build, too hard to trace, and too dangerous to be allowed."
Schumer called ghost guns “too easy to build, too hard to trace, and too dangerous to be allowed.”
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Police believe a ghost gun was used in the stray-bullet killing of Bronx teen Angellyh Yambo on Friday afternoon, according to police sources.

The accused shooter, 17-year-old Jeremiah Ryan, was caught throwing a Polymer80 ghost gun outside of a Bronx apartment window before he was arrested.

“These guns are too easy to build, too hard to trace, and too dangerous to be allowed,” Schumer said Sunday.

The ghost gun police believe was used in the shooting of Angellyh Yambo.
The ghost gun police believe was used in the shooting of Angellyh Yambo.
Yambo, 16, was killed by a stray bullet in a shooting in the Bronx.
Yambo, 16, was killed by a stray bullet in a shooting in the Bronx.
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Jeremiah Ryan, 17, is charged in the shooting that killed Yambo.
Jeremiah Ryan, 17, is charged in the shooting that killed Yambo.
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Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance last year labeled ghost guns “a significant public safety threat in a way that they weren’t even two years ago.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul in October signed legislation to crack down on ghost guns in New York, including making it illegal to possess an unfinished gun frame or receiver by anyone other than a licensed gunsmith or dealer.

In February, ahead of the president’s visit to New York City, the Biden administration announced plans to crack down on illegal ghost guns and firearms trafficking along the East Coast “iron pipeline.”

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