Last December, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) raided a Dayton, Nevada, company called Polymer80. The 10-year-old firm sells complete “Buy Build Shoot” kits, which come ...

"Ghost guns" seized by the Oakland Police Department are shown in April 2021. (Stephen Lam / San Francisco Chronicle) In 2020, over the course of numerous investigations, the Los Angeles Police ...

Baltimore City on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against national gun manufacturer Polymer80, Inc., accusing them of "flooding" the streets with untraceable and unserialized firearms, creating a "public ...

When two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were wounded by a gunman near the Compton Metro station last year, it was seemingly unconnected to a killing of three people during a home invasion ...

It's getting harder to buy "ghost guns" — the term critics use for firearms that are made from kits, and are often impossible to trace. First the Biden Administration cracked down: in 2022, the Bureau ...

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The city of Baltimore will receive a $1.2 million payout to settle a lawsuit with build-it-yourself gun kit producer Polymer80, the Baltimore Sun reported, after officials claimed the company’s “ghost ...

On a Saturday evening in the fall of 2020, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Claudia Apolinar and her partner parked their police cruiser in downtown Compton with plans to keep watch over a Metro ...

A leading manufacturer of ghost guns will halt sales to Maryland residents under a settlement agreement reached with the city of Baltimore, the city announced Wednesday. The agreement will settle ...

One of the nation’s largest manufacturers of “ghost guns” has settled with Baltimore for over $1.2 million to resolve the city’s lawsuit alleging that Polymer80’s build-it-yourself firearm kits have ...

In 2020, over the course of numerous investigations, the Los Angeles Police Department recovered more than 700 “ghost guns” — weapons often having no serial numbers and built from components sold ...