Schumer demands federal crackdown on ghost guns after fatal Bronx shooting

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a federal crackdown on “ghost guns” amid a staggering surge in seizures of the DIY weapons in New York City.

Schumer (D-NY) lamented that the untraceable firearms that buyers assemble themselves have too often ended up in the wrong hands — such as those of the Bronx teen charged in a shooting Friday that left a 16-year-old girl dead and two others wounded.

“These guns are too easy to build, too hard to trace, and too dangerous to be on our streets,” Schumer told reporters in Manhattan. “Just ask the family of that beautiful 16-year-old who was killed

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