How to Use ghost gun in a Sentence

ghost gun

noun
  • Mangione was found with a ghost gun at the time of his arrest.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 26 Apr. 2025
  • This year, 192 ghost guns have been seized, with just days left in the year.
    — Vincent Hill, Baltimore Sun, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Oregon would become the ninth state in the nation to ban ghost guns.
    — oregonlive, 15 June 2023
  • There’s no doubt that ghost guns pose a public safety hazard.
    — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
  • And that means that going forward, all guns could become ghost guns.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • My printer can only print a plastic handle for a ghost gun.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2026
  • Simoneau is charged with possession or control of a ghost gun.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
  • That ghost gun was never recovered.
    — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Yet the Supreme Court heard oral argument last week about whether ghost guns count as firearms.
    — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The ghost gun found on Mangione also matched the one used to kill Thompson.
    — Filip Timotija, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In recent years, the presence of ghost guns in the streets has skyrocketed.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • Or should personal disputes likewise be handled with a ghost gun and a 9mm slug in the back?
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The county has seen a 57% year-over-year increase in the recovery of ghost guns.
    — Nick Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The companies that make ghost gun parts have for too long been allowed to operate unchecked, and that needs to change.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • Guns are just too easy to get out there, and a lot of them are ghost guns because people have bought them that shouldn’t have been able to buy them.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The Biden administration hailed the change as a step in cracking down on ghost guns.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The ghost gun restrictions would take effect in September of next year.
    — oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2023
  • But combating ghost guns is a constant, shifting battle.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • The search warrant is part of a larger ghost gun investigation, sources said.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Police found a 9 mm ghost gun and several fake IDs on his person.
    — Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Police say a ghost gun, silencer and writings expressing ill will were found on Mangione and link him to the crime.
    — Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2024
  • In New York, for example, ghost gun recoveries dropped last year for the first time in four years.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Roughly 15 percent involve bans on types of firearms such as machine guns, military-like weapons and ghost guns.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
  • But the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that ghost guns could indeed be regulated by the law.
    — Npr Washington Desk, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025
  • But there were at least five firearms in Nelson’s home, including two AR-15-style ghost guns.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The right-wing Fifth Circuit held that these ghost guns were immune from the background check and serial number laws.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Sentencing will be increased for those in possession of ghost guns, Jones Dickson said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The gun — which did not have a serial number and was therefore untraceable, a kind of weapon known as a ghost gun — was not loaded, police said.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • That means that the court may be able to side with the ghost gun manufacturers and against the Biden administration.
    — George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Authorities say a ghost gun, silencer and writings expressing ill will were found on Mangione and link him to the crime.
    — Filip Timotija, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025

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