Cracking Down on Ghost Guns
Biden wants to regulate homemade weapons. Will it make a difference?
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Episode Notes
The Biden administration recently announced a new policy aimed at cracking down on ghost guns—homemade weapons without serial numbers, making them harder to trace. But with gun violence on the rise, will this particular move make a meaningful difference?
Guest: David Chipman, senior policy adviser at Giffords, a gun violence prevention organization.
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Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Elena Schwartz, Carmel Delshad, Anna Rubanova, and Laura Spencer.
