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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Educate me. Would a metal detector catch all ghost guns?[/quote]

For at least the third time, the “ghost” in the rhetorical term “ghost gun” refers not to undetectability but to putative inability to trace origin because of the absence of serialization.

The Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. §922(p)) makes it illegal to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, or transfer any firearm that cannot be detected by standard security metal detectors and X-ray machines. The law requires all firearms to have at least 3.7 ounces of metal, ensuring they are visible to security scanners, aiming to prevent the use of plastic or ceramic weapons.

It may be technically possible to build a potentially “undetectable” firearm that would discharge at least one round before coming to pieces, but that is not the common meaning of the term “ghost gun,” and if such firearms exist they are not in common circulation.

What is common is firearms and other weapons being missed by security staff despite metal detectors. [/quote]

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