On 10 Nov 2022, warmfuzzy said the following...
Today the local police busted a criminal enterprise and seized a machine that can print automatic weapons using 3D Printing. They were seized
from a Woodstock, Ontario, Canada address. Ghost guns have no serial number or identifiable markings of any sort, thus they are "ghosts."
I saw the OPP photos, and these drug dealers were building pistol frames towhich they assembled commercial parts.
The OPP showed commercial extended capacity magazines which had been brought into Canada. Of course the OPP didn't include that 90% of what the seized was smuggled contraband, leaving the average person thinking these folks had a "gun factory" where they made complete firearms.
Non-serialized homebrew firearms are not new. Chicago had it's Zip-Guns of the 1960's onwards.
One of my grandfathers was a gunsmith, and the skills he used to create his firearms from bits of metal and wood were not unique. The skill which he did it was uncommon though. I still hunt partridge with one of his scratch built shotguns, and have traveled internationally with that gun to hunt.
I built a kit gun over forty years ago with a kit and parts from Dixie Gunworks. You can still do this today.
Big difference is the results were within acceptable technical and aestetic norms, and my build was about honing my personal skills.
Ghost guns are about legitimate enemies of the state (criminals) and moreso about making political statements by the police.
There are nearly 15,000,000 people in Ontario, so it isn't surprising that a couple dopers also were building illegal firearms.
Wanna bet there are a lot more in the Province doing the same?
Sidebar the OPP "shock statement" that there is no place is the Provience that is "safe" from Ghost guns is PR hyperbole. Almost like they copied the statement from a Monty Python sketch.
One wonders why they made the statement?
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