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What are 'ghost guns,' a target of Biden's anti-crime effort?

  • Written by Garen Wintemute, Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Violence Prevention Research Program, University of California, Davis
imageA San Franciso police officer displays several 'ghost guns' – untraceable firearms with no serial numbers or manufacturing marks.AP Photo/Haven Daley

It’s not expensive or difficult to produce large numbers of untraceable firearms in the United States. Whether for private use, sale on the criminal market or arming violent extremists,...

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