Federal judge denies request to halt new ghost gun regulations
The new regulations take effect Wednesday.
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The new regulations take effect Wednesday.
For the first time, kits that allow people to assemble homemade firearms must include serial numbers and mandate background checks for people buying the guns.
A federal rule restricting ghost guns will start Wednesday after a judge denied an attempt to stop it.
How quickly ghost guns have become a problem on the streets is startling for law enforcement.
How quickly ghost guns have become a problem on the streets is startling for law enforcement.
Unserialized ghost guns will effectively be banned on Aug. 24, and retailers are scrambling to sell them.
They're known as ghost guns: Homemade firearms that don't have a serial number. Federal officials will start regulating them soon -- but that news has sparked a fire sale.
