The RCMP doesn\u0027t have a database on 3D guns, printers or how many shootings there have been with the weapons.
FREDERICTON — Even as the technology to produce so-called “ghost guns” becomes less expensive and more widespread, the RCMP is not keeping records on how often the weapons are used in crimes across the country.Ghost guns are firearms without serial numbers that are assembled from individual parts or 3D printers. They are easy to make and hard to trace, and are increasingly showing up at crime scenes in Canada and the United States.
“With most handguns, if police want to work at it, they can usually trace them — even back to the United States or Europe, wherever they’re made,” Brown said in a recent interview. “But with these , they could change hands multiple times. It can be very, very difficult to figure out where they originated.
Brown said Canada has rigorous regulations on firearms, particularly handguns. But 3D-printed guns upend regulations because they don’t have serial numbers. “The best you can do is make possessing 3D printed parts for firearms … illegal somehow,” Giltaca said. “That’s still not going to deter people who weren’t deterred from shooting other people in the first place.”
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