If I’m feeling handy, I can get it done with just simple power tools.Īs I discuss in my recent journal article about ghost guns, it’s perfectly legal to privately manufacture firearms without a license in the U.S. Whether for private use, sale on the criminal market or arming violent extremists, it’s actually startlingly cheap and easy to mass-produce firearms that police can’t track - what are often called “ghost guns.”įor just over $2,000 I can buy a machine - not much bigger than a desktop laser printer - that will do the trick. It’s not expensive or difficult to produce large numbers of untraceable firearms in the United States.
