“The buyers aren’t required to pass a background check to buy the kit to make the gun,” President Joe Biden said.
They are virtually unregulated federally, but the Biden administration has proposed new rules that would require serial numbers on certain unfinished parts and restrict mail-order kits, which the president singled out in an April speech at the White House. Only ten states plus Washington, DC, have local laws that attempt to regulate ghost guns. To meet these gunmakers and get a true sense of what 3D-printed guns are capable of these days, I decided to enter the shooting contest in Florida-and build my own ghost gun.
