Nisleit has been raising alarms in recent weeks, and in a statement this weekend said the “number of illegally-owned and unserialized guns” that police are finding is “concerning.”
Among them was a September search linked to two brothers who may have sold “dozens, if not hundreds, of firearms.” Nisleit’s report noted that San Diego police executed several search warrants last year related to making and selling the guns. They project that number will increase to 427 by the end of the year. This year through the end of May, San Diego police have seized 178 ghost guns. Last year, officers impounded 211 ghost guns, close to triple what they found in 2019. According to San Diego police, the weapons accounted for 53 of the nearly 2,300 guns they seized in 2018. The five-page overview came at the request of Councilmember Marni von Wilpert, who last month asked Chief David Nisleit for a report on proliferation of such weapons and the enforcement efforts targeting them. Of every five guns police seize, one is a ghost gun.Īnd, the report states, the consensus among investigators in the department’s Special Operations Unit is that 90 percent of the ghost guns San Diego police found were made by “a small group of people” that sell the guns by using social media. Police have gone from finding and seizing an average of 17.6 ghost guns a month last year to an average of 35.6 ghost guns a month this year, according to the report San Diego police provided to a member of the City Council Friday. San Diego police are on pace this year to nearly double the number of ghost guns - firearms that are assembled by hand and are usually untraceable - that they impounded last year, according to a new report on the proliferation of such weapons in the city.
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