Like Everything Else, The Gun Grabbing Left Lies About Ghost Guns

There is still plenty of news citing our "elite" politicians barking out Unconstitutional orders and demanding that you obey them, or else.  You can read about them at the American Thinker here and of course at other places around the inter-webs. But I want to highlight a recent move by the anti-gun forces to ban the so called "ghost guns." Now, a "ghost gun" is one that you build for your own personal use. It doesn't have a serial number. You are legally allowed to build such a weapon, and the fact is that nobody could stop you from doing so anyway. And of course, if you are a convicted felon who is therefore a prohibited person, you are prohibited from building a ghost gun as well.

Over at Bearing Arms today, Tom Knighton has a piece explaining Why Regulating "Ghost Guns" Is Not Practical. Knighton debunks a number of claims made by the gun grabbers including the notion that it is easy to buy what is called an 80% kit gun and finish it to produce a working firearm. It really is not so easy, nor cheap:

OK, so, instead of addressing the constitutionality of this, let’s address the practicality.

First, let’s discuss the “relatively little work” required to turn a less than 80 percent receiver into a functional one. After all, these are the words of someone who has never actually tried it. I have taken a less than 80 percent receiver and built an AK-pattern rifle with it. Yes, I used a kit for the rest of the parts, but the receiver was kind of intimidating. I only got it finished because I had the help of a gunsmith at a build party.

The “relatively little work” isn’t necessarily intuitive or easy, especially for people who aren’t particularly handy. Even then, there’s a fair bit of either work or tooling involved, often both. To call it “relatively little work” is to not understand how much work is actually involved.

Keep in mind that a good fifth of the manufacturing of these weapons is incomplete. Would many people be willing to do a fifth of the manufacturing of a car or a home? Of course not. That’s a lot of work, and it’s not really all that different.

I had considered building an M1911 pistol kit myself. I wanted to understand how the pistol functioned, and to know that I knew how to repair it should it need repair. However, I found that building the kit was a major undertaking, requiring the purchase of specialized tools, tools that I would use just once. Then there is time required to learning to use those tools with precision. By the time I added up the parts, the tools. not to mention the learning curve involved, it became clear to me that I would be better off buying a commercial M1911 pistol from the market.

Of course, I had to fill out a Form 4473, to do so, which I passed.  But once you investigate what it takes to build just one pistol, do you really think a criminal is going to invest the time, money and effort to do so when he can just steal it, or purchase a gun from black market dealer?  The whole idea behind being a criminal is so that you can gain money and other things without having to work for them.  Criminals are simply not going to go to that much trouble.

Like everything else, the gun grabbing Left lies about so called "ghost guns."