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Untraceable firearms, built with parts bought online, are being seized during police investigations. Now a law aims to curtail crimes committed with ghost guns

>> do you want to know the truth? >> reporter: the buyer is a legal russian immigrant. after calling the fbi's instant background check system the sale is put on hold while the feds look deeper into his background. >> they get you -- >> pull the trigger back, it fires -- >> reporter: kayton smith and ricky duffy run the gun shop in savannah, georgia. we spent a day with them watching dozens of customers come through the gun shop. >> see you later. >> reporter: according to statistics georgia is the number-one state for exported guns in the country. that's created what's known as the iron pipel...

Tend to buy guns in states with weak gun laws, where it's easy for them, and bring them back to states like massachusetts that have tougher gun laws and resell these illegal guns on the street for a nice profit. >> reporter: the first step, customers fill out a form declaring they're buying the gun, not someone else. then kayton smith calls for an instant background check. the buyer is either approved, delayed, or denied. that puts the gun shop on the front lines in the battle against purchasers, people who pretend to buy guns for themselves then pass them on to someone who can't lawfully own ...

Dozens of people came through the gun shop. according to federal statistics georgia is the number one state for guns used in illegal crimes. it is known as the "iron pipeline" of guns flowing north from places like savannah, georgia, often up interstate 95 into northeastern states with stricter gun laws. these states pumped almost 5,000 guns into the criminal pipeline in 2008. >> there is a pattern that we have seen emerging where traffickers tend to buy guns in states with weak gun laws, where it is easy for them, and bring them back to states like massachusetts that have tougher gun laws, an...

Front lines of the btle against straw purchasers who buy the guns for themselves and then pass them on to people who cannot legally buy a firearm. kayton says that the shop has sold 4,000 guns in the last three years nand the same time fbi background checks have denied sales to 83 people in the shop. do you feel like you are under a lot of pressure to not make that happen? >> sure. we don't want to do anything wrong. we want the bad guys caught. we don't want to sell any guns to bad guys, ever. >> reporter: and about the russian immigrant whose gun purchase was denied by the fbi, a few days la...