On a Saturday evening in the fall of 2020, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Claudia Apolinar and her partner parked their police cruiser in downtown Compton with plans to keep watch over a Metro ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The city of Los Angeles is suing Polymer80, believed to be one of the largest sellers of "ghost gun" kits and parts. The lawsuit was filed in partnership with Everytown Law, ...

Rohan Mattu is a digital news producer at CBS Baltimore. Rohan graduated from Towson University in 2020 with a degree in journalism and previously wrote for WDVM-TV in Hagerstown. He maintains CBS ...

Ghost gun kits and parts are in fact firearms, a court said in a landmark judgment, barring one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of the homemade and untraceable weapons from selling its ...

It's getting harder to buy "ghost guns" — the term critics use for firearms that are made from kits, and are often impossible to trace. First the Biden Administration cracked down: in 2022, the Bureau ...

The company must pay $4 million in civil penalties, and its two founders must pay an additional $1 million in civil penalties. LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto ...

In 2020, over the course of numerous investigations, the Los Angeles Police Department recovered more than 700 “ghost guns” — weapons often having no serial numbers and built from components sold ...

Polymer80 was found to have violated city consumer protection laws by falsely claiming that the parts kits were legal to purchase in D.C. D.C. has won a permanent injunction, and a $4 million judgment ...

One of the nation’s largest manufacturers of “ghost guns” has settled with Baltimore for over $1.2 million to resolve the city’s lawsuit alleging that Polymer80’s build-it-yourself firearm kits have ...

But large and small retailers are still stocking many other barely legal gun accessories. At least a half dozen devices, designed to flout federal gun restrictions — or come right up the edge of ...

Baltimore has sued the nation’s largest maker of so-called “ghost guns” that are easy to assemble, untraceable and increasingly used in violent crime across the country. The city accuses Polymer80 of ...

When two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were wounded by a gunman near the Compton Metro station last year, it was seemingly unconnected to a killing of three people during a home invasion ...