Oakland CM Kaplan Wants Alameda County DA O’Malley To Join Ghost Gun Lawsuit

Oakland, CA –  Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan is urging Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley to articulation San Francisco’s District Attorney Boudin’s suit against “Ghost Gun” manufacturers and retailers.  In an unfastened missive to O’Malley, the Vice Mayor expressed her interest regarding the emergence successful shade guns and the harm they origin successful the community: 

DA Nancy O’Malley

“ I impulse you to articulation cities specified arsenic our neighbors successful San Francisco and the City of Los Angeles who person filed lawsuits against manufacturers of Ghost Guns. The full strategy of weapon information laws and regulations are undermined by shade weapon manufacturing companies, who are profiting from the unit and harm successful our community. Therefore, I implore that Alameda County articulation San Francisco’s suit against shade weapon manufacturers and retailers.”

Ghost Guns are self-assembling firearms bought successful kits oregon parts, which incorporate each the components and directions for finishing a working  firearm. These guns tin past beryllium illegally sold and utilized successful crimes. When these firearms are recovered astatine transgression scenes, they cannot beryllium traced owed to the deficiency of a serial number. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), “ghost guns” relationship for 30% of guns recovered successful California. Although these guns relation and origin harm similar accepted guns, their manufacturers and retailers are mostly unregulated. 

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Vice Mayor Kaplan has continually pushed for power and regularisation of shade guns and the prioritization of ending weapon violence.  On April 20 2021, she successfully passed a resolution asking the State Legislation to enact regulations against shade guns. In December of 2020, Council unanimously passed a solution introduced by Kaplan declaring Gun Violence the Top Law Enforcement Priority. On April 12, 2021, she successfully allocated backing to grow ShotSpotter to areas of East Oakland presently not covered, enactment Operation Ceasefire, and money weapon tracing to place and unopen down sources of amerciable guns  (4/12/21 – Budget spreadsheet).