{"id":826760,"date":"2025-02-13T13:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T19:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/why-ghost-guns-are-so-easy-to-make-and-so-dangerous\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T19:12:16","slug":"why-ghost-guns-are-so-easy-to-make-and-so-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/why-ghost-guns-are-so-easy-to-make-and-so-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Why ghost guns are so easy to make \u2014 and so dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The shocking broad-daylight shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4 was carried out with a homemade firearm that alleged shooter Luigi Mangione may have created with a 3D printer. The increasing use of such weapons, often called &#8220;ghost guns,&#8221; has raised troubling new questions about the easy availability of homemade firearms and the challenges they pose to both public safety and the ability of law enforcement to solve crimes.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-do-ghost-guns-work-3\">How do ghost guns work?<\/h2>\n<div id=\"blueconic-article-theweek\">\n<div>\n<h2>Subscribe to <span>The Week<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.theweek.com\/servlet\/OrdersGateway?cds_mag_code=TWE&#038;cds_page_id=275740&#038;cds_response_key=I4BRBKSW1&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=theweek.com&#038;utm_campaign=wku-all-digital_referral-202401-sub-none-fbk24&#038;utm_content=us-in-article\" target=\"__blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSUBSCRIBE &#038; SAVE\n<\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Sign up for The Week&#8217;s Free Newsletters<\/h2>\n<p>From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Randy Pecora <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/politics\/ghost-guns-danger-serial-number-3d-print-weapons-supreme-court\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shocking broad-daylight shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4 was carried out with a homemade firearm that alleged shooter Luigi Mangione may have created with a 3D printer. The increasing use of such weapons, often called &#8220;ghost guns,&#8221; has raised troubling new questions about the easy availability of homemade firearms and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":826761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,2459],"tags":[5788,11642],"class_list":{"0":"post-826760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dangerous","8":"category-ghost","9":"tag-dangerous","10":"tag-ghost"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}