San Jose City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed an ordinance that closes a loophole in the law banning ghost guns.
"I think it’s important for every city to step forward. We’re seeing rising gun crime in every city," said Mayor Sam Liccardo.Police investigators said the 24-year-old Sunnyvale man was selling stolen property, but also had a cache of so-called ghost guns, and parts to assemble ghost guns., particularly gun trafficking rings," said Liccard.
According to the San Jose Police Department in California, nearly 30% of weapons seized by the ATF are ghost guns. And in San Jose, detectives said approximately one-fourth of the 963 firearms taken by police officers in 2021 did not have serial numbers. "During the Cinco holiday, just this past week, we seized a large majority of ghost guns as well. And they were all seized from people who are prohibited persons – who are mostly likely going to commit additional crimes," said Officer Steve Aponte, a spokesman for the police department."This is really an area that there’s a lot of focus on here because it’s novel, but not because it’s the huge threat other kinds of stolen weapons are.
Liccardo is confident any dent, coupled with a concerted effort to attack a mainstay of street crime will break the pattern of gun violence.There will be a second reading of the measure May 17. The ordinance would then go into effect a month later. But enforcement wouldn’t begin for six-months to give people time to turn in ghost guns and ghost gun kits.
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