The new legislation would ban the sale of ghost gun kits immediately and ban any privately assembled firearms unless they are registered with the state and marked with a serial number. The legislation also allows for a six-month grace period to let current ghost gun owners register them.
Firearm prohibitionists want to ban the sale of kits, which are not firearms, and ban the possession of frames/receivers that have been printed by private builders.Once the loophole is closed, a first violation would be a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by as much as a year in jail. Any subsequent offense would be a Class 3 felony, punishable by a prison sentence of five to 10 years.
Dart is partnering on the proposal with Democratic Illinois state Sen. Jacqueline Collins. She was not at the news conference but said in a statement that gun violence is “plaguing Illinois’ Black and brown communities.”
They are stoking fear about 3D-printed hardware and kit builds by equating them with firearms with defaced serial numbers discovered at crime scenes.