re: How many "ghost guns" used in recent shootings?

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Has anyone seen stories of crimes using them??

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They're "ghost" stories.

None, it’s a feel good restriction that most won’t care about and it will be a W for his administration.

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Enjoyed reading The Lazy Pistol and the following bears repeating:

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The United States is 3rd in murders throughout the world. But if you take out just 5 'left-wing' cities:Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, St Louis and New Orleans--the United States is 4th FROM THE BOTTOM, in the ENTIRE world, for murders.
These 5 cities are controlled by Democrats. They also have the toughest gun control laws in the USA.

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What happens when you remove violent urban centers from ALL countries and not just the US?

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If the true goal of "gun control" is the prevention of crime,

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We all know the left’s intentions are to disarm the populous so they can be easily subjugated. There’s no doubt about it.

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IslandBuckeye

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It is not “parsing” to demonstrate that you chose to compare apples and oranges, by excluding violent American cities from your statistics and then comparing those (adjusted) numbers to other countries’ (unadjusted) numbers, still including THEIR violent urban centers.

Yes, cities are more violent than less-urban areas ... almost everywhere in the world.

Yes, crime statistics will favor small-town Paris, Texas over urban Paris, France.

The data seems to show that cites are the cause of most crime.

Not the guns.

We need to ban cites.

Cody Wilson is the Last American.

Are ghost guns frequently used in violent crime?
Yes, ghost guns are increasing being used in shootings across the country:
In July 2020, an individual who was prohibited from possessing guns allegedly murdered two people in Pennsylvania using a homemade 9mm handgun.9
In November 2019, a 16-year-old shot five of his classmates at Saugus High School in California—two of them fatally—using a homemade handgun, before fatally shooting himself.10
In August 2019, a shooter used a homemade gun kit to build a .223-caliber firearm that he later used to fire 41 shots in 32 seconds in a bar in Dayton, Ohio, shooting 26 people and killing nine.11
In 2017, in Northern California, a man prohibited from possessing firearms ordered kits to build AR-15-style rifles. On November 13, he initiated a series of shootings that began with fatally shooting his wife at home, followed by a rampage the next day during which he fired at multiple people in several different locations, including an elementary school, killing five people and injuring dozens more.12
In 2013, a shooter opened fire in Santa Monica, California, shooting 100 rounds, killing five people, and injuring several others at a community college using a homemade AR-15 rifle. Reporting indicates the shooter had previously tried to purchase a firearm from a licensed gun dealer and failed a background check, potentially indicating why he opted to order parts to build a gun instead.13
Law enforcement officials around the country are sounding the alarm about the dramatic increase in the recovery of ghost guns at crime scenes in their communities. ATF reported that approximately 10,000 ghost guns were recovered across the country in 2019.14 Ghost guns have also been illegally trafficked to Mexico.15 In addition:
In 2019, Washington, D.C., police recovered 115 ghost guns, a 360 percent increase from 2018, when they recovered 25 ghost guns, and a 3,733 percent increase from 2017, when only three such firearms were recovered.16
In 2019, ATF reported recovering 117 ghost guns in Maryland with almost 25 percent recovered from Baltimore alone. Ghost gun recoveries in the state then tripled in 2020.17
According to law enforcement in Philadelphia, ghost gun recoveries in that city rose 152 percent from 2019 to 2020.18
The special agent in charge of the ATF Los Angeles Field Division reported in January 2021 that 41 percent of the division’s cases involve ghost guns, and a May 2019 statewide analysis in California found that 30 percent of all guns recovered in connection with a crime in the state did not have serial numbers.19
In addition, an investigation by The Trace found that ghost guns are increasingly becoming the weapon of choice for violent white supremacists and anti-government extremists.

Why does it matter if it was cut and pasted? The content is verifiable and thus accurate. I’m not for banning weapons believe me but the truth is these guns are used to commit crimes and it makes it harder for the criminals to be caught and taken off the streets. If it makes law enforcements job easier and prevents criminals from obtaining weapons why would anyone be against that???

First define what this magical unicorn term means. Ghost Gun.