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May 31, 2023

Ghost gun maker can no longer do business in California

The legal settlement stems from a lawsuit that the City of Los Angeles filed against Polymer80 in 2021 following an ambush on two sheriff’s deputies near the Compton Metro station in which they were shot with one of the company’s home-assembled kit guns.

A manufacturer of do-it-yourself gun kits has been ordered to pay $5 million in civil penalties and is now barred from selling its ghost guns in California.

The legal settlement stems from a lawsuit that the City of Los Angeles filed against Polymer80 in 2021 following an ambush on two sheriff’s deputies near the Compton Metro station in which they were shot with one of the company’s home-assembled kit guns.

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