This is an 80% lower receiver. With a jig, many times included, and some power tools this can go to being a finished AR15 lower receiver in a very short time.
These aren't regulated at all in 45 states. For the most part neither are all the other parts to an AR.
If this was 100% finished it would require serial numbers and you would have to go to a Federal Firearm License Holder aka gun shops to buy them and go through a background check.
These are fairly easy to learn to finish and then assemble in to an AR. They also sell handguns blanks in a similar fashion, 80% finished with no serial numbers and no background check. Becoming very common to find these with gangs in a lot of major cities.
They call these ghost guns as there is almost no way to track them back in any real way. These days you can also do similar with a 3d printer.
These are becoming found more and more often in the hands of gang members, adding to the proliferation while making it nearly impossible to track them back when used in a crime. Easy place to start would be requiring these 80% lowers to be serialized.
This is the idea GOP members like Sen @LindseyGrahamSC are suggesting. Taking untrained veterans, putting then through some form of security training and turning schools in to compounds, secured compounds.
See this is done in the Phillipines. A beautiful but divided country.
My son just graduated high school there, has been in school there his entire life and he sees this every day.
Going to McDonald's? Hello security person and thank you.
Going to school? Yes security person here is my papers, I'm supposed to be here.
Everywhere this happens.
Why is this a necessity there?
Gun proliferation and crimes of violence? Yes some what but the separation between the haves and have not is drastic. It's classism to make those that have feel better, to feel safe.
Want to expand on how impossible the idea of manning public schools with an entirely new style of security, untrained veterans, would be.
Let's start with the number of public schools, the ones a law would focus on- 97,568.
My first duty station, CFA Chinhae ROK, I eventually was selected to work as the School Reseource Officer for the base DOD elementary school. A job I held for only a bit over a year after several years training and promotions. I'm one of a rare group who did a similar job.
We had around 40 children, it was a small school that served military and DOD contractors kids. The security response for the school, a school inside a larger base that had a larger security force, was myself and my boss along with a 6 person Special Reaction Team. 8 people.
Putting veterans in school, especially asking them to volunteer for it, is a terrible idea as is asking them to volunteer to teach defensive security to school staff.
Let me explain further why its so bad.
1. Most veterans are not trained in physical security.
2. The veterans you will attract as volunteers will largely be people that have the wrong training/knowledge base, will likely misrepresent their skills and will create a far larger liability.
3. There are specialists, people that spend decades studying physical security and how to develop a security force that are paid ridiculous amounts to build that posture. That is not common in the military. It's literally what I did for a portion of my time in service.
For years I was in the camp of more regulation with regard to firearms meant reduced liberty. I absolutly was blinded by the propoganda that was out there.
See I'd surrounded myself with people repeating that over and over. It was stuck.
Eventually I met journalists like @nickpwing who used to write for HuffPo on topics including guns.
I started talking to folks like @JoePlenzler. @FPWellman and other veterans that served in combat zones & dont want to see us slide any further in to that via gun proliferation.
I argued, we debated, but I also listened. It took time but I heard them.
Do I agree that every thing they may seek is even possible currently due to our make up of lawmakers in Congress? Nope.
The following thread may trigger some, I'm saying this in advance so anyone that deals with mental health issues reads no further.
I'm a Sexual Assault Survivor. In 1987, at 13, I was raped by a Boy Scout Leader while at a Boy Scout camp.
Until today I've never said this out loud or written it down. I'm working on my healing process finally and feel like this is part of it, admitting it wasn't my fault.
For 3 decades it's torn me apart. I stayed quiet and didnt report it because I did not want my parents to think they failed me, didnt protect me. They tried.
One night in 1987 completely changed my life. Today I'm taking that power back. Today I'm saying It Wasn't My Fault.
Gun violence, negligent homicide being called accidental shootings and proliferation of guns need to be addressed.
Our problem in the US is both sides demand to be right and can't grasp they both offer ideas that sound great until a magnifying lens is taken to them.
Most politicians don't write laws, they depend on others to do so & currently a lot of the realistic gun laws are so filled with flaws they will backfire.
We can do more but it takes sitting down and really looking at what's proposed, not just proposing it and walking away.
If we want gun violence truly addressed, everyone is going to have to be part of it. Not just saying "let's pass xyz and it will work" instead of truly seeing what could happen.