{"id":80930,"date":"2022-05-11T12:07:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80930"},"modified":"2022-05-11T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T17:07:46","slug":"80930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80930","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington “ghost gun” arrest kills narrative<\/a><\/p>\n

he state of Washington has passed a \u201cghost gun\u201d law that will go into effect later this year. We\u2019re told it will stop criminals from building their own firearms and keep guns out of the hands of bad people.<\/p>\n

However, the arrest of a Vancouver man\u00a0raises some serious questions on that front<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A man living in\u00a0Vancouver<\/a>,\u00a0Washington\u00a0<\/a>was charged with illegal firearm possession on Monday. Authorities say they seized at least five\u00a0\u2018ghost guns.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the FBI\u00a0Seattle<\/a>\u00a0Division, 46-year-old Joao Ricardo DeBorba, a Brazilian National with multiple convictions for domestic violence assault, was arrested Friday on eight counts of illegal possession of firearms. He is being held at the Federal Detention Center in\u00a0SeaTac<\/a>\u00a0pending further court proceedings.<\/p>\n

Authorities say last week, law enforcement served a search warrant at DeBorba\u2019s residence and seized five firearms that did not have serial numbers or manufacturers\u2019 marks. Three of the so-called \u201cghost guns\u201d were AR-15 style rifles and the other two were handguns, all believed to have been purchased online. In addition to the guns, authorities found a large amount of ammunition, a workbench with firearms parts and tools, firearm silencers, magazines and gun cases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, that last sentence is important.<\/p>\n

You see, we\u2019re told we need laws against so-called ghost guns so people like DeBorba can\u2019t get firearms. It\u2019s why Washington state passed its law against homemade firearms.<\/p>\n

But this guy had suppressors.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Suppressors, aka \u201csilencers,\u201d are heavily restricted under federal law. You can\u2019t just walk into a gun store and purchase them lawfully. You have to jump through all the hoops you\u2019d have to in order to buy a machine gun.<\/p>\n

And yet, he had suppressors just laying around, apparently. Suppressors. Plural.<\/p>\n

That means he skirted federal law not just once but multiple times.<\/p>\n

Now, if he\u2019s willing and able to do that for something like a suppressor, do you really think that keeping him from lawfully buying ghost guns is really going to stop him from trying to get firearms? Do you think it\u2019ll stop anyone?<\/p>\n

Of course it won\u2019t. It never has and it never will.<\/p>\n

Criminals, by their very nature, do what is illegal. They might be, at most, inconvenienced by the law, but they\u2019re almost never stopped by it. The only people stopped are the law-abiding folks who don\u2019t represent a problem in the first place.<\/p>\n

Washington state is banning \u201cghost guns,\u201d but they couldn\u2019t even stop suppressors from being obtained. Those aren\u2019t legal off the shelf anywhere in the US, but they can stop kits and 3D printed parts from being obtained across state lines?<\/p>\n

Seriously?<\/p>\n

This just reinforces the idea that gun control is really just a willful self-delusion that allows people to believe they can stop criminals with just one more law. This despite the fact that it has literally never happened in the whole of human history.<\/p>\n

At best, you drive it underground.\u00a0Then, criminals get to profit from it. You get more violent crime from it. You create new criminals from it.<\/p>\n

But you never, ever actually stop it.\u00a0It\u2019s time some lawmakers learn that lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington “ghost gun” arrest kills narrative he state of Washington has passed a \u201cghost gun\u201d law that will go into effect later this year. We\u2019re told it will stop criminals from building their own firearms and keep guns out of the hands of bad people. However, the arrest of a Vancouver man\u00a0raises some serious questions … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80931,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80930\/revisions\/80931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}