Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart wants to ban the sale of guns without serial numbers, known as ghost guns or undetectable guns, which are increasingly prevalent and can be built at home out of parts purchased without a background check.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart Thursday announced proposed legislation to ban ghost guns — homemade, untraceable firearms — which increasingly are being recovered on the county’s streets.Ghost guns often are assembled from kits and are not marked with serial numbers like normal guns, making them harder to track. That means the gun parts can be purchased without a background check — a standard requirement for the purchase of a standard firearm from a federally licensed dealer.
Dart is partnering on the proposal with Democratic Illinois state Sen. Jacqueline Collins. She was not at the news conference but said in a statement that gun violence is “plaguing Illinois’ Black and brown communities.” “The public safety of the people of Illinois is so important,” said Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet. “We want each legislator to be held accountable the citizens of Illinois. Are they going to continue to coddle violent offenders?”
In response to an open-records request by the Tribune in late June, the Chicago Police Department said it doesn’t track the number of its confiscated guns that are deemed “ghost guns.” But the department does track the number of guns confiscated that do not have serial numbers — a category that would include ghost guns.
The new rules also would require manufacturers to include a serial number on the firearm “frame or receiver” in the easy-to-build kits. They would require federally licensed firearms dealers to add serial numbers to so-called 3D-printed guns or other “un-serialized” firearms they inventory.
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