Pennsylvania s largest gun show promoter agrees to ban sale of ghost gun kits at its shows, Attorney General Josh Shapiro says
Ghost guns typically start as “80% receivers” that are often sold in kits without background checks, Shapiro said. Author: Keith Schweigert (FOX43) Updated: 11:00 AM EDT March 15, 2021
HARRISBURG, Pa.
Note: The video is from December 2019.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Monday that Eagle Arms Productions, the largest gun show promoter in the state, has halted the sale of ghost guns at its shows.
Eagle Arms is the first gun show promoter in the nation to stop the sale of unserialized 80% receiver kits, Shapiro said. The promoter s decision to stop the sale of ghost guns comes after the number of such weapons recovered in Philadelphia rose 152% from 2019-20.
A week after announcing the arrests of four Philadelphia men on firearms charges following surveillance at the Morgantown Gun Show in Berks County, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Monday that the stateâs largest gun show promoter has agreed to ban the sale of do-it-yourself gun kits.
Shapiro called the ban of ghost gun kits imposed by Breinigsville-based firearms dealer Eagle Arms at all its gun shows a significant step in curtailing the growing threat to public safety from the privately assembled firearms.
âThis is a significant step,â Shapiro said, standing at a podium placarded with the words âUntrackableâ and âGhost Gunsâ and displaying one of the 80% ready-made receiver kits that were displayed by the hundreds at the Morgantown show.
‘Ghost guns’ banned by Pa.’s largest gun show promoter
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
Posted Mar 15, 2021
Eagle Arms Productions owner Joel Koehler is the first gun show promoter in the nation to ban 80 percent receivers, otherwise known as ghost guns from his shows. The top picture shows boxes of these gun kits that were for sale at Eagle Arms Morgantown show last month. The bottom picture of the same gun dealer s barren tables was taken at Eagle Arms Carlisle gun show on Friday, the day the ban took effect.
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Tables holding stacks of untraceable self-assembled gun kits – or “ghost guns” as they are called – often used in crimes are disappearing from most gun shows in Pennsylvania.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Pennsylvania has reached an agreement with the largest gun show promoter Eagle Arms to ban sales of the so-called ghost gun kits, state.