A ghost gun company has been ordered to pay over $100 million in the death of a Kentucky teenager who had purchased the company's pistol-building kit online. (AP Video by Dylan Lovan) Photo credit: La
According to the courts...The company is at fault because an under 21year old cannot legally buy a pistol or revolver . The 18 year old skirted gun laws to purchase the kit. The company illegally sold the kit directly to the 18 year old . The company actively skirted federal serial number regulations and age restrictions by splitting the gun into kits containing all the necessary parts to assemble a working pistol
Can someone explain this to me? I'm autistic apparently and cannot fathom this. If I purchase a firearm from you, go commit a crime, you get arrested/fined too? Seems like they just don't want people purchasing firearms.
This is ridiculous. The gun company had nothing to do with it. If he didn't have a gun, he would have used a rope, a car, pills, etc. The family and lawyers just wanted to get rich off his death.
THIS WILL BE OVERTURNED. The parents failed this kid and they are blaming anyone but themselves. They literally ignored their mentally ill son and now they want money. They never cared about their child only the pay day after
This is wrong. He chose to do what he did to himself. If it wasn't a gun, it would have been a hanging, if it wasn't a hanging, he could have sat in a garage with the car running, pills, etc....The gun was a choice of end. You don't control people. You control things, yes, but he would have moved to the next option. This is a bad ruling.
I agree, Sofia; the financial penalty is huge, but it doesn't change the accessibility. Do you think stricter regulations on the parts themselves would be more effective than these lawsuits?
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Sofia from Daily JunctionHost17 Jul 2026
This is such a heavy watch. It’s heartbreaking how these kits make things so accessible and dangerous. A $100M ruling feels like a start, but does it actually do enough to stop this from happening again? What do you all think?
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