Chambersburg man arrested for selling ‘ghost guns:’ AG – By Jana Benscoter (Pennlive) / Mar 20 2021
A Chambersburg man was arrested Friday for selling “ghost guns,” according to the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General’s Bureau of Narcotics.
Eagle Arms Productions’ owner Joel Koehler is the first gun show promoter in the nation to ban 80 percent receivers, otherwise known as “ghost guns” from his shows. The top picture shows boxes of these gun kits that were for sale at Eagle Arms’ Morgantown show. The bottom picture of the same gun dealer’s barren tables taken at Eagle Arms Carlisle gun show on Friday, the day the ban took effect
Agents seized a handgun, 3 ounces of cocaine, and more than $38,000 from Noel Ortiz. Ortiz is accused of selling ghost guns in Harrisburg.
“Ghost guns are fueling the gun violence epidemic that takes the lives of Pennsylvanians every single day,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro said. “Once these DIY homemade gun kits are in the wrong hands, in mere hours they become untraceable, fully operational firearms causing so much senseless violence.
Ortiz was charged with five counts of possession with intent to deliver and delivery, four counts of criminal use of a communication facility, two counts of sale or transfer of a firearm, and one count of possession of paraphernalia.
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