Hawaii is helping lawmakers crack down on ghost guns across the country.
U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda, D-Hawaii, plans to introduce a bill in Washington, D.C., this week called the Gun Hardware Oversight and Shipment Tracking Act, or Ghost Act.
The legislation will allow law enforcement to track gun parts coming into the state and who ordered them.
During a press conference Monday in Hawaii, Tokuda demonstrated how simple it is to make a weapon at home, known as a ghost gun, with parts that you can legally purchase.
“Everything in black, you can buy online. It’s legal. It is innocuous in and of itself,” Tokuda said. “Paired together, with a 3D printed part, that’s the red part, you have got an assault weapon. You have got a weapon that will kill.”
She added that certain 3D-printed kits or parts can make weapons deadlier.
Tokuda said she had been in talks with Hawaii Department of Law Enforcement director Mike Lambert and Honolulu Police Chief Joe Logan over the past several months, working on this bill.
“If you’re a legal gun owner, there will be no stopping of what you’re doing,” Lambert said. “(The bill) is just giving us a clue of where it went.”
Lambert added that a legal gun owner can still sell parts through a business, but they have to make sure that the person they are selling to is real and allowed to own guns.
Tokuda said she wants to give police and DLE “every tool in the toolbox possible” to help keep ghost guns off the streets.
“This really is about giving law enforcement across the board every tool in the toolbox possible, here in Hawaii and across the country, to make sure that when they go out on a call, they can also be as safe as possible,” Tokuda said. “The more we can get these ghost guns (and) privately manufactured firearms off the streets, that’s going to keep us safer.”
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By: HNN Staff
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