New York Daily News

Gabby’s org. fights ghost guns on web

- BY JESSICA SCHLADEBEC­K With News Wire Services

A GUN CONTROL GROUP founded by former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords wants two web hosting companies to shut down several websites that sell components for untraceabl­e, homemade weapons.

The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence requested that Shopify and DreamHost pull the plug on Ghostgunne­r.net and Ghostgunne­r.com.

These two websites sell old parts and machines that can be turned into do-it-yourself firearms known as “ghost guns.”

Both sites offer kits to make so-called “ghost guns,” including semi-automatic weapons.

These kits can be purchased legally for several hundred dollars — without a background check.

Lawyers for the gun control organizati­on allege the websites sell the sort of products that have already “caused scores of senseless deaths — and are likely to cause many more, unless taken off the market.”

The Arizona Democrat’s request comes on the heels of a fatal 45-minute shooting rampage in Northern California earlier this month.

The suspected shooter was not allowed to buy guns, so he built a pair of semi-automatic weapons to carry out the attack, officials said.

The suspect’s rampage, which ended near a local school, left his wife and four others dead.

Cody Wilson — who runs GhostGunne­r.net — pushed back against Giffords and her organizati­on.

Wilson said Gifford’s request is nothing more than “an attempt to apply pressure to de-platform a legal, American business selling legal products to law abiding citizens.”

Giffords was shot in the head during a public meeting with constituen­ts in Tucson on Jan. 8, 2011.

Gunman Jared Loughner shot Giffords first and then opened fire on event attendees.

Five people died at the scene, and another victim died from injuries at a local hospital.

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