Concerned about the rise in killings in the United States, President Joe Biden, banned the free sale of so -called “ghost weapons” on Monday, which are the kits sold online to assemble pistols, revolvers and rifles at home, which are uncontrolled and very difficult to identify and trace.

Biden din named Steve Dettelbach, a former prosecutor in Ohio, to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Control. The first candidate for that sensitive post was withdrawn by the president amid rejection from Republicans in the Senate.

these ads occurs as violence and crime worsen in the United States, forcing Biden to act on the issue. The provision addresses a major issue in the monitoring and regulation of “ghost guns” because certain parts used in assembling guns are often purchased online and are not officially classified as firearms.

“The United States Department of Justice has issued a final rule for prevent the spread of “ghost weapons”privately made, non-serialized guns are increasingly being recovered by law enforcement at crime scenes in cities across the country, ”the White House said in a statement.

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Last year alone there were about 20,000 alleged “ghost weapons” reported as recovered by police in criminal investigations, a tenfold increase since 2016.

Because “ghost weapons” they lack the marked serial numbers With other guns, it takes police a long time to trace such a weapon found at the crime scene to an individual consumer.

The Biden administration says this initiative prohibits the business of making the most accessible “ghost guns,” such as non-serialized kits that people can buy online or in a store without a background check and easy to assemble with a gun. in just 30 minutes with the equipment they have at home.

The initiative clarified that these kits qualify as “guns” under the Gun Control Act, and commercial manufacturers of such kits must be licensed and include serial numbers on the frame or receiver of the kits. .

Y Commercial sellers of these devices must obtain a federal licenseperform background checks before a sale, as they relate to other commercially made guns.

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The provision would also help turn some “ghost guns” that are already in circulation into serialized guns, the White House said. The Department of Justice will require federally licensed gun dealers and blacksmiths to take any non-serialized firearms in inventory and to get to know him.

For example, if someone makes a gun at home and then sells it to a federally licensed gun blacksmith, that dealer must put a serial number on the gun before it can be sold to a customer.

This requirement will apply no matter how the gun is made, i.e. which includes “ghost weapons” made from individual parts, kits or by 3D printers.

The issue of ghost weapons has become a headache for the authorities because finding and tracking them is so complicated.

Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer protested Sunday against the use of this type of weapon at a press conference for a round of violence in the Bronx on Friday, where a teenage girl was killed in the hunt.

Senator from New York blaming the republicans for stopping gun reform, while calling on Biden to act on the issue. “Today, I call on the government to chase down‘ ghost guns ’by putting in place regulations to prevent them. The federal government has the power to regulate them, ”he said.

The Justice Department has also launched a national “ghost gun” enforcement initiative, which will train a national cadre of prosecutors and deploy investigation and prosecution tools to assist in bringing cases against users of dummy guns to commit crimes, ”according to the White House.

different states has moved to restrict their sale as these types of weapons become more common in crime scenes.

Last week, Maryland joined Washington, DC and 10 other states (California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington) in banning or restricting them.

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