Daily News | Philadelphia man manufactured ghost guns, including AR-15s, inside his Kensington home, prosecutors say
A Philadelphia man was operating a gun manufacturing facility inside his Kensington home, prosecutors said Tuesday, in what officials said is another example of how the largely unregulated and untraceable ghost guns continue to infiltrate the city.
Soto was manufacturing the weapons inside his home on the 1900 block of East Tioga Street in the Harrowgate section of Kensington, an area facing some of the highest rates of gun violence, largely driven by the open-air drug market.Officials could not estimate how many weapons Soto assembled and sold, or how long he had been running the operation.
“This is the problem we’re seeing again and again, with ghost guns getting into the hands of felons,” Fritze said. “There is no way for us to even know how many firearms Mr. Soto put out on the street before we were able to stop it.” Groups like the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation have long emphasized that building a gun at home has always been legal, and that the problem is not the guns, but the people who use them in crimes.
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