By Kayleigh Hamilton
The biggest city in America is in the midst of an unprecedented gun grab.
Police are sweeping the city and taking away a shocking number of guns.
And now they are bragging about how many guns they have taken away.
So-called “ghost guns” are the bane of gun-grabbers’ existence. There is nothing gun-grabbers want more than to be able to track exactly who owns a gun, so that they can eventually take them away.
That’s why Joe Biden and others have made it a priority to crack down on these “ghost guns,” which are homemade guns that can’t be tracked by the government.
New York City is taking that to another level and conducting sweeps of the city to locate and confiscate these homemade guns.
The numbers of these guns that they have taken away has shot up in recent years as the crackdown has grown.
Many of these people who had their guns taken away are almost certainly peaceful individuals who had no criminal intent.
But New York City is now bragging about their massive gun grab to the press in an attempt to send a message to gun owners in their city.
According to the New York Post, “The NYPD has seized 389 untraceable ghost guns so far this year — a 710% surge in such seizures since 2019, when a mere 48 were taken, police stats show.
“In 2022, a record-high 463 of these deadly firearms were recovered.”
Of course, as gun-grabbers are prone to do, they are pointing to one singular criminal event as justification for their crackdown.
The article continues, “A ghost gun — which can be made using a 3D printer or assembled piecemeal via shipped parts, and doesn’t have a serial number — was allegedly linked to a near-fatal attack on Staten Island in October, when Eltingville resident Dominick Giordano shot his 41-year-old neighbor in the back over a fireworks dispute, according to police and court records.
“Cops discovered a loaded ghost gun, a 9mm Luger Polymer80, in Giordano’s backyard and arrested the 57-year-old convicted felon, who the Staten Island district attorney’s office slapped with a slew of charges, including attempted murder, felony assault, and criminal use of a firearm, according to court records.”
“Overall, 706 ghost guns have been taken statewide so far in 2023, compared to just 100 in 2019, according to the New York State police.”
The fact that one person, in the entire massive city of 8 million people, committed a crime with a ghost gun, should not give the city license to conduct a widespread crackdown and target peaceful people.
But the fact that these guns cannot be tracked by the government scares them, and they want to make sure they are able to keep a list of all gun owners.
Until the judicial branch steps in and puts an end to this crackdown, these unconstitutional sweeps of the city will continue.
And innocent gun owners will continue to be targeted by a city government that is using one man’s crime as justification.