Giffords Group Asks Web Hosts to Shut Down 'Ghost Gun' Sites

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


A gun control group founded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords wants to shut down two websites that sell parts and machines to help make untraceable homemade firearms known as "ghost guns.".

Nov. 24, 2017, at 6:43 p.m.

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A gun control group founded by former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords asked two web hosting companies on Friday to shut down websites selling parts and machines that help make untraceable homemade firearms known as "ghost guns."

The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence asked the providers that host GhostGunner.net and GhostGuns.com to disable the websites for violating the hosting companies' terms of service.

The sites sell kits, components and machines that help create homemade semi-automatic weapons. It's legal to build a gun in a home or a workshop, and advances in 3-D printing and milling have made it easier to do so. The kits can be purchased legally for a few hundred dollars without the kind of background check required for traditional gun purchases.

Attorneys for the gun control advocacy group said the homemade weapons are increasingly being used in crimes and asked each of the companies to "invoke its policies to help stem the tide of this illegal, deadly behavior."

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2017-11-24/giffords-group-asks-web-hosts-to-shut-down-ghost-gun-sites

[X_Digger]

1. Wait, doing a legal activity is a TOS violation because it's illegal?

"It's legal to build a gun in a home or a workshop"
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"invoke its policies to help stem the tide of this illegal, deadly behavior."

This is a good example of the tendency of the gun control movement to step on their own toes.

[madville]

2. Poor wording

I think they meant the "illegal, deadly behavior" in reference to mass shootings.

I read it the way you did though, it's not worded correctly.