By Dr. Monica Taylor and Adam Garber

Gun violence isn’t just a national crisis, it’s a local emergency.

And it’s exacerbated by untraceable firearms, including ghost guns, and machine gun converters.

In spring, a man walked into a Walmart in Marple Township with a Glock Switch. These small devices can be purchased for as little as $20, or even printed in your home.

They turn any gun into an automatic-fire machine gun capable of firing up to 800 bullets a minute. That day police intervened before anything happened, but it would be better if they could stop the proliferation of these devices in the first place.

In Chester, a student carried an untraceable firearm, built from a kit ordered online, into school.

He was stopped by security, but some of these are plastic. A teen in Darby di

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