SAN DIEGO – To help address increasing gun violence and the rapid proliferation of “ghost guns” in the City, Mayor Todd Gloria signed an ordinance today authored by City Councilmember Marni von Wilpert officially banning ghost guns in the City of San Diego. He had a criminal history barring him from having guns, but he was found with a semi-automatic AR rifle-style ghost gun.Thursday, September 23, Link to Ordinance Signing: Two officers were shot, and the ensuing SWAT standoff ended with the suspect dead. In 2018, police and firefighters checking on a reported fire at a Rolando apartment were met with bullets when they entered the residence. The car was linked to a homicide the Sheriff’s Department was investigating. ![]() In the car, officers found a 9 mm ghost gun. They arrested at least two people after a car chase that ended with a crash. Nisleit’s report points to that shooting and others, including a February incident in Bay Terraces, in which police found 60 shell casings in the parking lot of an apartment complex, and evidence that one bullet pierced the bedroom window of a sleeping child. Authorities said the accused shooter, a felon barred from having firearms, used a ghost gun. On April 22, a parking valet was shot to death and four tourists were wounded in a shooting spree in the Gaslamp Quarter. “SDPD officers are aware of what we are seeing throughout the city and will continue to take a proactive approach to getting these guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals to keep San Diegans safe,” he said. Nisleit has been raising alarms in recent weeks, and in a statement this weekend said the “number of illegally-owned and unserialized guns” that police are finding is “concerning.” Among them was a September search linked to two brothers who may have sold “dozens, if not hundreds, of firearms.” Nisleit’s report noted that San Diego police executed several search warrants last year related to making and selling the guns. ![]() They project that number will increase to 427 by the end of the year. This year through the end of May, San Diego police have seized 178 ghost guns. Last year, officers impounded 211 ghost guns, close to triple what they found in 2019. ![]() According to San Diego police, the weapons accounted for 53 of the nearly 2,300 guns they seized in 2018. The five-page overview came at the request of Councilmember Marni von Wilpert, who last month asked Chief David Nisleit for a report on proliferation of such weapons and the enforcement efforts targeting them. Of every five guns police seize, one is a ghost gun.Īnd, the report states, the consensus among investigators in the department’s Special Operations Unit is that 90 percent of the ghost guns San Diego police found were made by “a small group of people” that sell the guns by using social media. Police have gone from finding and seizing an average of 17.6 ghost guns a month last year to an average of 35.6 ghost guns a month this year, according to the report San Diego police provided to a member of the City Council Friday. San Diego police are on pace this year to nearly double the number of ghost guns - firearms that are assembled by hand and are usually untraceable - that they impounded last year, according to a new report on the proliferation of such weapons in the city.
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