Los Angeles is taking on a main seller of ghost guns.
LA City Attorney Mike Feuer and Everytown Law are suing Polymer80, which sells parts and kits over the internet to make untraceable guns, often to convicted criminals.
Feuer says "A third of the guns recovered nationally don't have serial numbers any more. In Los Angeles, in our area, it's forty percent. Just year over year, this year to last year, for 2020-2019 the Sheriff's Department saw an increase of fifty percent in the number of weapons that were ghost guns."
Feuer said ghost guns were used in the Saugus High School shooting and last year’s ambush attack on two sheriff deputies in Compton.
"Buyers, as you might imagine, will pay a premium to get their hands on ghost guns for those two reasons, they are untraceable and there's no background check," he says.
The city is asking the court to stop Polymer80 from selling in California.