Who Bumped Off the CEO?

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

OK. Hanging out in a McDonalds packing all the evidence? He wanted to be caught.

Can't be famous if nobody knows your name. Interestingly enough he has a lot of connections to the Maryland area.
Another question. Who plays him in the movie?

[barbara]

According to news reports, the shooter used a "ghost gun". Not knowing what that was, i googled it and found out it was a gun that a person puts together rather than a gun from a manufacturer.......right?
So my question is, where or how does someone get gun parts to put together a gun? Any information to educate me would be appreciated.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by barbara

According to news reports, the shooter used a "ghost gun". Not knowing what that was, i googled it and found out it was a gun that a person puts together rather than a gun from a manufacturer.......right?
So my question is, where or how does someone get gun parts to put together a gun? Any information to educate me would be appreciated.

This is a parody of the marketing concept, as I recalled seeing in Mad Magaziine in my youth (this dates back to 1963!)....

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by barbara

According to news reports, the shooter used a "ghost gun". Not knowing what that was, i googled it and found out it was a gun that a person puts together rather than a gun from a manufacturer.......right?
So my question is, where or how does someone get gun parts to put together a gun? Any information to educate me would be appreciated.

Ghost guns, also known as privately made firearms, are assembled by their owners, either from scratch or through weapon parts kits. They are not marked with serial numbers, making them easy for criminals to acquire and difficult, if not impossible, for law enforcement to trace.

I have also read that ghost guns can be made by 3D printing and that plans are readily available. Back in the mid 1990's there were junk guns called Saturday Night Specials assembled from junk parts that were of poor quality.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/10/nx-s1...-ceo-ghost-gun

[donquixote99]

According to the people on this site, it's not entirely easy. You need to be handy with tools, because you can't buy receivers, the part that holds the bullet and fires it, ready to go, unless you have a Federal Firearms License. What you can buy is receivers "80 %" finished. You have to do some metalwork on them to make them able to work.

https://thegunclub.quora.com/What-gu...ped-to-my-home

[Chicks]

[init4fun]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

I have also read that ghost guns can be made by 3D printing and that plans are readily available. Back in the mid 1990's there were junk guns called Saturday Night Specials assembled from junk parts that were of poor quality.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/10/nx-s1...-ceo-ghost-gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturd...ial%20strength.


The term "Saturday night special" refers to cheap guns used in poor neighborhoods. They are usually small, of small caliber, and often unreliable or inaccurate. A single definition is not easy to come by; while legislation in the United States has tried to define them as either "unsafe" or "of no legitimate purpose", these attempts to define are problematic.[1]

The earliest known use of the term "Saturday night special" in print is in the September 29, 1917, issue of The Coffeyville Daily Journal, referring to a "cheap revolver".[3] In its August 17, 1968, issue, The New York Times printed a front-page article titled "Handgun Imports Held Up by U.S.", author Fred Graham wrote, "... cheap, small-caliber 'Saturday night specials' that are a favorite of holdup men..."[4]

The term "Saturday night special" came into wider use with the passing of the Gun Control Act of 1968 because the act banned the importation and manufacture of many inexpensive firearms, including a large number of revolvers made by Röhm Gesellschaft. With importation banned, Röhm opened a factory in Miami, Florida, and a number of companies in the United States began production of inexpensive handguns, including Raven Arms, Jennings Firearms, Phoenix Arms, Lorcin Engineering Company, Davis Industries, and Sundance Industries, which collectively came to be known as the "Ring of Fire companies".[5]

Gun ownership advocates describe legislation restricting inexpensive firearms as possibly discriminatory in origin, designed to target low income and black gun owners.[6][7][2][8] In his book Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out, gun rights advocate Don Kates found racial overtones in the focus on the Saturday night special.[9]

[init4fun]

I posted the above wiki description not to be a wiseass, but because in the 1960s I well remember a "Saturday Night Special" being a cheap gun that was far more likely to hit some innocent bystander VS the intended target. I never know the term went as far back as 1917.........

[barbara]

Thanks to all for the information.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

OK. Hanging out in a McDonalds packing all the evidence? He wanted to be caught.

Makes sense. Smart move would have been to get as far away as possible as fast as possible.