I Made an Untraceable AR-15 ‘Ghost Gun’ in My Office—And It Was Easy (Article)

[QuackXP]

THIS IS MY ghost gun. To quote the rifleman’s creed, there are many like it, but this one is mine. It’s called a “ghost gun”—a term popularized by gun control advocates but increasingly adopted by gun lovers too—because it’s an untraceable semiautomatic rifle with no serial number, existing beyond law enforcement’s knowledge and control. And if I feel a strangely personal connection to this lethal, libertarian weapon, it’s because I made it myself, in a back room of WIRED’s downtown San Francisco office on a cloudy afternoon.

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/i-made-...-15-ghost-gun/

[streaker69]

I made a gun that Law Enforcement doesn't know about, then I posted pictures of it on the internet.

[Cyclops]

I made a gun that Law Enforcement doesn't know about, then I posted pictures of it on the internet.

Not only a picture but an entire article about how he did it by building the receiver in a machine shop so the receiver has no serial number. As far as I know federal law requires that every gun made in the past 80 or so years must have a serial number. Now what does that F stand for in ATF? OH yeah, Firearms. The gunmaker best hope that they are not reading his article.

[Shisno]

Not only a picture but an entire article about how he did it by building the receiver in a machine shop so the receiver has no serial number. As far as I know federal law requires that every gun made in the past 80 or so years must have a serial number. Now what does that F stand for in ATF? OH yeah, Firearms. The gunmaker best hope that they are not reading his article.

If he made it himself for his own personal use, it doesn't need a serial number. He just can never transfer it. It's the same concept as the 80% lowers that you can buy.

[QuackXP]

I made a gun that Law Enforcement doesn't know about, then I posted pictures of it on the internet.

Then turned the lowers into the local PD before leaving back home to NY.

But all in all this is a positive article in a mainstream publication about firearms.

[Splittiebus66]

[gummy jones]

[cdi]

Egocentric liberal Jerkoff.
I heard a very interesting and, very anti, opinion piece on the article on the progressive satellite radio station.

The show got the gist of the federal law right, then twisted it into something it isn't by fuking up the details.
The progressive host was all twisted-panties akimbo over the possibility of these killing machines being manufactured by prohibited persons, yada, yada, yada.

What would you expect from likes of Mother Jones, etc.?
The progressive/socialist movement appears virtually unstoppable. They have mobilized members of the Free Shit Army and by degrees, have been altering the 300 year old American experiment.

I don't need an Oracle to foretell where this culture is going.
You only have to look in the rear view mirror....

[alpacaheat]

Geez...Californians...

So instead I decided to surrender my three lower receivers to the local police. I disassembled my AR-15 and left a large box containing all of the parts except the lower receivers on my editor’s chair. Then I walked down the street to the police station in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood and told the lady at the front desk I wanted to hand over some firearm components. She gave me a puzzled look and asked me to sit down.

Forty minutes later, two cops emerged from a door and asked what I was doing there. I explained and showed them the three lower receivers. They examined them with expressions that were simultaneously quizzical and bored. I asked them if it was common to see AR-15 lower receivers like these: homemade, with no serial numbers. “I’ve never seen this before,” one of them said.

The cops gave me a handwritten receipt for the three weapons I’d turned in, as if to definitively show that these were no longer outside of law enforcement’s awareness or control: They now had a number. Then they took my lower receivers behind their locked door and I said goodbye to my ghost gun.

[wanneroo]

Reading this story is like it's about a man that touches a vagina for the first time and then runs away and goes gay. The hilarious part at the end about going to the police station to turn in the lowers is like he's acting like it's a nuclear weapon about to go off.

I wonder if he made a California legal rifle? Hmmm....