Communities across the U.S. are fueling a secondary arms market by giving seized and surrendered guns to disposal services that destroy one part and resell the rest.

Ghost guns aren’t new, but they are a growing problem. Even though kits to assemble guns have been sold since the 1990s, the market did not really take off until around 2009.

The number of guns found in schools -- hidden in backpacks, waistbands and lockers -- has spiked in recent years, impacting hundreds of thousands of students.

Ghost guns can be pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, machineguns and more. From 2016 through 2021, there were more than 45,000 suspected ghost guns reported to the ATF as having been recovered ...

Police: Guns sent off to be destroyed were stripped of parts and sold online 07:15. DALLAS – Thousands of guns sent off by North Texas local law enforcement agencies to be destroyed were first ...

ATF: 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. from unlicensed dealers The more than 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms represents 54% of such weapons in the U.S. between 2017 and 2021 ...