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What is a ghost gun?
Ghost guns are unregulated firearms that anyone — including minors and prohibited purchasers — can buy and build without a background check.
3D printed guns fall solidly into this category.
Why are these an issue though? It is not like people can just print the ammunition too. So they can only buy them with a gun license anyways.
Yep, if you're a criminal making ghost guns to commit crimes because you can't pass a background check to buy a gun (and then scratch the serial number off), then it's already a crime for you to have that ghost gun because you're a prohibited person.
Requiring a serial number changes nothing and only affects nerds, not criminals.