New York City and state officials announced lawsuits Wednesday against 10 sellers of gun parts that the officials said can be assembled into untraceable ghost guns and sold without background checks. State Attorney General Letitia James and [...]
State Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the weapons sold by online ghost gun retailers have been found at a growing share of New York’s crime scenes.
“These are dangerous weapons,” Adams, a former police officer, said at a Manhattan news conference with James and other officials. “We should not think these are just kits used for hobbyists. They are being used by murderers. All of them are illegal.”working on new regulations to crack down on ghost guns,The New York attorney general’s lawsuit against 10 online gun sellers was filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan under athat allows New York to target gun makers as public nuisances.
New York City’s law department filed a separate federal lawsuit seeking an injunction to stop five of the companies from selling to customers in the city. James, a Democrat like Adams, said the companies “have sold tens of thousands of illegal ghost guns” to New Yorkers, including guns that “have actually claimed lives.
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