Give Up The Ghost Guns
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
President Biden announced a new rule that would prohibit the unregulated online sale of “ghost guns,” or firearms that you can self-assemble from kits with gun parts. The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives says that it recovered about 20,000 suspected ghost guns last year, which is ten times more than it did in 2016.
The effort to try Russia for war crimes in Ukraine is picking up pace, and the Biden administration is weighing whether to get involved as well. Alex Whiting, a former prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, joins us to discuss what exactly constitutes a war crime and what investigators are looking at right now.
And in headlines: Philadelphia will reinstate its indoor mask mandate, Finland and Sweden may join NATO, and thousands of Etsy sellers went on strike.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 12th. I'm getting a risic. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day. The designated Instagram husband to |
| 0:13.2 | pee Davidson and Kim Kardashian when they go somewhere. |
| 0:15.9 | Yes, we go. We take pictures, tell them they look handsome and pretty, and we expect |
| 0:20.5 | absolutely no credit. |
| 0:21.7 | You know, we're just honored to take part in the process. |
| 0:23.8 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:24.8 | On today's show, we explain how the process works to try Russia for war crimes, plus a spike |
| 0:36.0 | in COVID cases has Philly telling its residents to put masks back on when indoors. |
| 0:41.2 | But first, yesterday, President Biden announced a new role that would prohibit the unregulated |
| 0:45.4 | online sale of ghost guns. |
| 0:47.8 | These guns are weapons of choice for many criminals. We're going to do everything we can to |
| 0:52.8 | deprive them of that choice. |
| 0:54.7 | If you don't know, ghost guns are firearms that you can basically self-assemble from |
| 0:58.1 | kits with gun parts. It's like arts and crafts, but murdery. |
| 1:02.5 | And if the idea of ordering a build a gun on the internet isn't scary enough, these guns |
| 1:07.6 | also don't have serial numbers, meaning they can't be traced. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, two aspects that do not seem ideal. So let's talk about how much of a problem |
| 1:17.2 | these have become in recent years. |
| 1:19.0 | They've become basically an increasing problem just in the past like five years alone, |
| 1:23.0 | the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, which is my favorite agency name |
| 1:27.5 | by the way I get in, just incredible. |
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