Police: Ghost guns, 3D printers found at East Harlem day care
The discovery comes after another recent tragedy in which a toddler died and three others were sickened due to exposure to fentanyl at a Bronx day care.
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The discovery comes after another recent tragedy in which a toddler died and three others were sickened due to exposure to fentanyl at a Bronx day care.
Three people have been arrested after a ghost gun printing operation was discovered inside a home-based daycare center in New York City's Harlem neighborhood, police said Wednesday. Jericka Duncan reports.
One of the first cases to expose the pipeline of guns from the United States to Mexican cartels involved an Oklahoma man smuggling ghost gun parts across the border through Laredo, Texas.
An Oklahoma man was sentenced to 12 years for making ghost guns for a Mexican cartel — a practice that a recent government watchdog report found is all too common. CBS News investigative correspondent Stephen Stock reports.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday to allow Biden administration regulations on ghost guns to remain in effect during an ongoing legal fight over the weapons. Ghost guns are firearms without serial numbers, often sold in a kit to assemble. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson has more.
The Supreme Court has given the Biden administration a temporary green light to crack down on ghost guns -- firearms that don't have serial numbers, many of them homemade -- pausing a lower court's ruling that had blocked the administration's regulation efforts while a legal battle over the weapons continues. CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang reports.
The Supreme Court suspended a lower court's decision that had blocked the Biden administration's efforts to regulate "ghost guns" while a legal battle is ongoing. Weijia Jiang reports from Washington.
The Supreme Court is allowing the Biden administration's restrictions on so-called ghost guns to stay in place while legal challenges make their way through the court system. The guns do not have serial numbers, making them harder to track when used to commit crimes. Ed O'Keefe reports.
The Supreme Court voted Tuesday to reinstate regulations on untraceable homemade weapons -- known as ghost guns -- while the legal challenges play out. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe explains more about the ruling.
The administrative stay from Justice Samuel Alito will remain in place until August 8.
In 2022, the Justice Department says nearly 30,000 ghost guns were recovered by police nationwide and more than 10,000 have already been seized this year. Ghost guns are nontraceable weapons usually manufactured privately. ATF Director Steven Dettelbach joined CBS News to discuss how his agency and the Biden administration are working to crack down on the use of the weapons by teens.
A simple conversion device can change a handgun to fire 15 rounds in under two seconds.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has released a comprehensive report tracking legally-bought firearms used in crimes, along with the prevalence of ghost guns. ATF Director Steven Dettelbach joined John Dickerson on "Prime Time" to discuss his agency's efforts to crack down on gun crime.
Police submitted almost two million "crime guns" to the ATF to trace since 2017, with a quarter of those guns being used in a crime within a year of purchase, federal data shows.
The bill had been debated for years, but found renewed support following the July 4 Highland Park parade massacre last year, which left seven people dead and dozens more wounded.
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A new rule mandating serial numbers and background checks for ghost guns went into effect. But law enforcement doesn't expect the flow of the homemade weapons to be cut off. Jeff Pegues takes a look.
The new regulations take effect Wednesday.
The number of ghost guns -- firearms assembled from parts without serial numbers -- recovered by law enforcement from crime scenes has risen dramatically since 2016. New regulations go into effect August 24, but as CBS News investigative correspondent Stephen Stock discovered, that's led to a "fire sale" of ghost gun parts.
Three people have been arrested after nearly 100 rounds were fired in a shooting in Philadelphia that left five people wounded. CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano reports from Philadelphia and joins Lana Zak to discuss the latest on how the city is responding to its gun violence crisis.
Unserialized ghost guns will effectively be banned on Aug. 24, and retailers are scrambling to sell them.
The head of a Russian republic warns plans are being made to attack Mariupol, Kyiv and other major Ukrainian cities. The U.S. has accused the official of human rights abuses. The White House is expected to roll out a long-anticipated rule regarding hard-to-trace “ghost guns.” And the world’s top-ranked golfer, Scottie Scheffler, won the Masters as Tiger Woods had his worst showing ever at the tournament in his first outing since a serious car wreck.
The head of a Russian republic warns plans are being made to attack Mariupol, Kyiv and other major Ukrainian cities. The U.S. has accused the official of human rights abuses. The White House is expected to roll out a long-anticipated rule regarding hard-to-trace “ghost guns.” And the world’s top-ranked golfer, Scottie Scheffler, won the Masters as Tiger Woods had his worst showing ever at the tournament in his first outing since a serious car wreck.
President Biden announced that "ghost guns," homemade weapons that lack serial numbers and are difficult to trace, will now face the same regulations as other firearms. He also introduced Steve Dettelbach as his nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Watch Mr. Biden's remarks in the White House Rose Garden.
A recent CBS News poll shows that most Americans feel the economy should be the government's top priority. CBS News political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns and Washington Post White House reporter Tyler Pager join "Red and Blue" to discuss that and other top political stories of the day.