California Sues Companies for Supporting Ghost Gun Manufacturing

An average of 11,000 ghost guns and auto sears were recovered per year in the state between 2021 and 2025, the lawsuit states.

A person holds a 3D printed ghost gun during a statewide gun buyback event held by the office of the New York State Attorney General in the Brooklyn borough of New York on April 29, 2023. Yuki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against two companies and more than 100 individuals, accusing them of unlawfully distributing computer code used for 3D printing “ghost guns,” the attorney general’s office said in a Feb. 6 statement.

Ghost guns are untraceable firearms manufactured without valid serial numbers. The lawsuit, filed on Feb. 6 in the Superior Court of the State of California in San Francisco, targets Florida-based Gatalog Foundation Inc., which is the owner of TheGatalog.com, and CTRLPew LLC, the owner of CTRLPew.com. Individual defendants in the case include people associated with these companies.