On Wednesday, a jury awarded Baltimore $62 million in damages against firearm retailer Hanover Armory, which the mayor’s office alleges “flooded the city with ghost guns.”
Mayor Brandon Scott discussed the suit on Friday with C4 and Bryan Nehman, adding the city’s lawsuit last year against ghost gun manufacturer Polymer-80, and how it ended their business not just in Baltimore, but in Maryland.
“You should not be able to just go online, order some parts together, put it together, have a gun, no serial number, no ability to trace it when something goes wrong,” Scott said.
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The mayor did say that he believes in the right to properly own a firearm.
Scott added that they’re not going after every gun store, but they went after