Moments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear.
The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to keep evidence out of his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan five days earlier.
Exactly. The whole point of a ghost gun is that it’s untraceable. You made it yourself; they can’t track it so some purchase record. The way you use a ghost gun is you make it, use it, and then just leave it at the crime scene. You make sure you never touch the thing with bare hands, so there are no prints on it. If you made one ghost gun, you can make another. They’re easily replaceable. No need to keep it with you after the crime.
Speak for yourself. Ghost guns are just guns without the paperwork, I own and shoot both regularly in a lawful manner.
$6 in plastic and $150 for a used part kit is dope.
Dude was well off. 150 is nothing to him.
My point was ghost guns shouldn’t directly be associated with criminal activity. Normal everyday people use them for lawful purposes too. I have a few since they are cheap and fun to make.
I mean, after 2023 its actually is illegal to own a ghost gun. So lawful citizens won’t be making one and anyone making a ghost gun is automatically a criminal because of the criminal activity.