Them. The parts are not hard to find, including unfinished lower receivers. This can be purchased onhien, at gun stores. It can be purchased at county fairs. Reporter the bureau of firearms and explosives says theyre legal to build in california. Iets not unlawful for someone to manufacture a homemade gun unless theyre in violation of state or local laws. Reporter several web sites are dedicated to selling the parts to build any firearm. In walnut creek abc7 news. Police are investigating an incident where an officer drew his gun on a man who wasnt accused of committing any crime. Take a look. It happened in front of the mans home. The Police Departments phones have been ringing off the hook since this video went viral. Vic lee is live tonight at city hall. Vic . Reporter well, there is more to this video that meets the eye. The so called back story. Someone who knows the person that shot the video told us there have been past contacts between police and a member of this persons family
Im dan ashley. Were going to explain what a ghost gun is in just a moment. This was a crime a weapon that surprised Walnut Creek Police. Here are two pictures of the people involved. We are live with details. Leanne . Reporter well, dan, Walnut Creek Police knew the two guns were homemade but didnt release that information until today. They wanted to make sure, they wanted to see where the parts came from and found out how easy it is to order these parts online. In late july, 21yearold scott showed up in this house in walnut creek shooting and killing 19yearold claire orton. Then using a second gun to kill himself. Both had been in a Relationship Police are not saying what prompted the young man to commit the crime. Police told abc7 news both handguns were homemade. Built by the 21yearold, who ordered parts through the mail. There is no indication anyone had a knowledge of what he was doing. Nothing illegal from the retailer standpoint of silling the parts. Reporter they can do it . Th
Filed a motion today that claims the fbi has evidence of top city leaders accepting illegal money but they claim federal prosecutors refused to good after them. Carolyn tyler has the story. Is the fbi corrupt or are politicians corrupt but i garren tie one or the other. Reporter curtis bringing recommendation raymond chow and 7 others go on trial this fall on charges of racketeering, Money Laundering and trafficking drugs and weapons. The charges came after a lengthy federal investigation. Now chow attorneys say it was selective prosecution that fbi documents show San Francisco mayor ed lee should also have been indicted. Concerning to the fbi he sat down with federal agents undercover. He took money from them. His staff took money from them supposedly knowledgeable about what the money was for and he attempted to, to i guess pay up on the bribe. Reporter late this afternoon mayor lee fired back saying the accusation are old and untrue. Everybody makes whatever alleys they want to make
An oakland musician booted from outside land. Accused of scalping performer tickets. Tonight the artist says just a misunderstanding. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im matt keller. Sold out music event of the year. People are doing whatever they can to get inside outside land. Including jumping the fence. Abc 7 news crew caught the fence jumpers on video this afternoon. It wasnt the only issue. Melanie woodrow caught up with an artist cited at theno event. Artist and performer getting side lined before the show. Ten officers rush us. Grab us. Handcuff us. Instruct us to got on the ground. Sfpd said officers detained three after information they were able to see it take place. An intern from the office had sold the one wristband. Reporter saying he had nothing to do with it. Outside land, making the decision to call off the show. As for his fans. Well. That is unfortunate. But i will play for them again. Its not over. For one tech it. They used us as an example and thats what h
Thats facing all of the Museum Managers and people that are responsible for generating, producing, and collecting objects that would likely go into a museum sitting such as this is how much do we need to keep . How many things do we need to have to tell the american story and its the great conundrum of our protection. There are those who believe that maybe the time has come to start reducing the amounts of things we collect and be more judicious in how we collect them and what we collect. Is it inappropriate to use representative samples, say at an archaeological site, where things are left at the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Do we need to keep everything . And there are those in the professional field that think we need to keep everything and theres others who think sampling is the more judicious and longterm strategy. Because there is a point of diminishing return. It costs money. There is an inherent cost to storing all of these objects. In many cases the costs can be prohibitive and