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The cops said they found an "AR-styled assault rifle also known as a ghost gun", what does that mean? Was it an unserielled gun or not? And I assume it isn't an
by AngryData 7d ago
The cops said they found an "AR-styled assault rifle also known as a ghost gun", what does that mean? Was it an unserielled gun or not? And I assume it isn't an actual "assault rifle" with a firing selector.
US cops are so untrustworthy to start with, saying nonsense like that shows them as completely incompetent.
- metiscus 7d agoSomeone very likely 3d printed an AR lower (unserialized, therefore a "ghost gun"), unlikely it had an autosear. The news and police typically call disfavored semi-auto weapons "assault rifles" and things that are fully automatic "machine guns".
- Zigurd 7d agoAll of these are true: the cops are untrustworthy; a bust like this gets overhyped and both the government issued information and the reporting are inaccurate; pedantry about select fire modes is pointless; Americans have a right to buy military style weapons, and that's in the context of the drafting of the 2A, unless you are not white enough; modern military style weapons are pointless in the hands of all about a very few civilian marksmen - they are fetish items. All the press announcement needed to say to get the correct point across was that somebody was brandishing a weapon in a Waymo, they got caught doing it, and the police responded and arrested them.