Pennsylvania s largest gun show promoter agrees to ban sale of ghost gun kits at its shows, Attorney General Josh Shapiro says
Ghost guns typically start as “80% receivers” that are often sold in kits without background checks, Shapiro said. Author: Keith Schweigert (FOX43) Updated: 11:00 AM EDT March 15, 2021
HARRISBURG, Pa.
Note: The video is from December 2019.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Monday that Eagle Arms Productions, the largest gun show promoter in the state, has halted the sale of ghost guns at its shows.
Eagle Arms is the first gun show promoter in the nation to stop the sale of unserialized 80% receiver kits, Shapiro said. The promoter s decision to stop the sale of ghost guns comes after the number of such weapons recovered in Philadelphia rose 152% from 2019-20.
‘Ghost guns’ banned by Pa.’s largest gun show promoter
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Posted Mar 15, 2021
Eagle Arms Productions owner Joel Koehler is the first gun show promoter in the nation to ban 80 percent receivers, otherwise known as ghost guns from his shows. The top picture shows boxes of these gun kits that were for sale at Eagle Arms Morgantown show last month. The bottom picture of the same gun dealer s barren tables was taken at Eagle Arms Carlisle gun show on Friday, the day the ban took effect.
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Tables holding stacks of untraceable self-assembled gun kits – or “ghost guns” as they are called – often used in crimes are disappearing from most gun shows in Pennsylvania.
Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Monday the agreement with Eagle Arms Productions is the first his office is aware of in the nation to curb the sale of such "80% receiver kits" long popular among hobbyists and firearms enthusiasts.
Updated on March 15, 2021 at 3:35 pm
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A type of firearms sale described as 80% receiver kits that allows for the construction of untraceable guns will no longer be allowed at Pennsylvania s most popular traveling gun show, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Monday.
Eagle Arms Productions, which is the promoter behind one-third of Pennsylvania s gun shows, will halt the sale of the kits, which Shapiro called ghost guns.
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to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Ghost guns typically start as 80% receivers that are often sold in kits without background checks, Shapiro s office said in a statement. They can be easily and quickly put together, lack serial numbers so they cannot be traced, and, once fully assembled, can operate as fully functioning firearms.