Philadelphia City Council 2020 Stated Meetings of Philadelphia City Council, 29 Oct 2020

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From YouTube: Councilmember Johnson on Ghost Guns 10-29-2020

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From the Stated Meeting of Philadelphia City Council held Thursday, October 29, 2020:

Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson (2nd District) introduced a resolution calling for hearings on ghost guns.

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Yeah, thank you. Council president.

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I just want to acknowledge um councilman jones, heenan greene, dom squiller gilmar richardson gilman thomas for um supporting um legislation that I introduced to regulate, um which, which we call ghost guns uh most of you may or may not know that we've seen an increase around the issue of illegal gun trafficking, as relates to ghost guns and ghost guns, are pretty much a process where individuals can buy a gun kit and put a gun together by buying various parts, and you can buy those parts from different stores and put a gun together.

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But the issue is, there are no serial numbers attached to that gun.

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uh Therefore, they aren't federally regulated, and so I've been working on this for about a year, but I'm kind of held up so attorney general josh apparel can engage in a lawsuit um around this issue, making sure that um again we're not infringing on anyone's rights, but at the end of the day, if you talk to our district attorney like kratner, if you talk to our police commissioner, daniel outlaw, we have seen the increase of ghost guns being used in the current murders and shootings that we're seeing these guns look like toys uh at the end of the day, and we want to do all the things that we can possible to make sure that we're keeping guns out of the hands of those who are taking the lives outright from our young people, and so just want to go on a record and just note um and thank everyone for the support.

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um I look forward to addressing this issue in our in our hearing in the near future. Thank you very much, council president. Thank you. Councilman. Those bills will be referred to the appropriate committee.