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“We’ve already stopped four companies from their unlawful behavior, and today’s court decision marks another important step in our fight to rid our city of the scourge of ghost guns,” Mayor Adams said.
By Forum Staff
City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Corporation Counsel Sylvia Hinds-Radix on Thursday announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted their motion for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit against online ghost gun retailer Indie Guns that immediately halts the company from further selling and delivering ghost gun components to New York City residents.
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Indie Guns website
The court issued the preliminary injunction after the city filed a lawsuit, earlier this summer, against the company and four other companies unlawfully selling ghost gun kits to New Yorkers. The other four companies have already agreed to stop their unlawful behavior.
Those four companies are:
- Rainer Arms, LLC, based in North Auburn, Washington;
- Rock Slide USA, based in Broadway, North Carolina;
- Salvo Technologies – doing business as 80P Builder (based in Largo, Florida); and
- Arm or Ally, based in Kansas City, Missouri.
“We continue to work tirelessly to ensure our streets are safe from the deadly menace of ghost guns, and are today damming another river feeding the sea of gun violence in our city,” said Adams. “We’ve already stopped four companies from their unlawful behavior, and today’s court decision marks another important step in our fight to rid our city of the scourge of ghost guns. We will continue our efforts to hold the remaining defendant accountable to the fullest extent of the law as we work to stop gun violence across New York City.”
Hinds-Radix called Thursday “a win for public safety and the rule of law.”
