Last updated on August 7th, 2024 at 04:29 pm
The county of San Diego has filed a lawsuit alleging the company behind a new computer numerical control (CNC) milling machine, is flouting a state law barring CNC machines from being used to make firearms parts.
The civil complaint, filed with the support of the gun control legal advocacy group Giffords Law Center, argues that the “Coast Runner” CNC machine is a rebrand of another CNC machine called the “Ghost Gunner.”
Gun rights activist Cody Wilson established Defense Distributed as a non-profit platform for advancing techniques and technologies used for at-home firearms production.
Federal law doesn’t prohibit private individuals to manufacture to build firearms for their own personal use without a license. But gun control advocates have raised concerns with advancements in at-home firearms production and the possibility criminals may produce and then use unserialized firearms, which they’ve dubbed “ghost guns.”
Gun control proponents in several states have advanced efforts in recent years to slow the proliferation of these “ghost guns.” Against the backdrop of these gun control efforts, Wilson and his Defense Distributed platform developed a user-friendly CNC machine product, which they named the “Ghost Gunner.”
By 2022, the Democrat-controlled California legislature had responded to the “Ghost Gunner” and similar products, by passing legislation that makes it unlawful to sell or transfer a “CNC milling machine that has the sole or primary function of manufacturing firearms” to anyone in California other than a federal firearms license (FFL) holder. Following the law’s passage, the Ghost Gunner sales website issued a notice stating, “Ghost Gunner CNC machines are not currently available to non-FFL California customers.”
But the San Diego lawsuit contends that while the Defense Distributed and Ghost Gunner restricted sales in California, a new company emerged to sell a very similar CNC machine named the “Coast Runner.”
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