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Omaha Steve

(106,757 posts)
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:46 PM Jul 31

Mom sues Nebraska company that sold her teen a 'ghost gun' kit he used to take his life

Source: Omaha World Herald-Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader

KARLA WARD Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader Jul 31, 2025 Updated 22 mins ago

A Louisville, Kentucky, mother whose teenage son died by suicide has filed a lawsuit against Nebraska companies she says illegally enabled him to obtain the gun he used to take his life.

Henry Willis, 18, was a recent graduate of Seneca High School in Louisville.

“He had a beautiful singing voice and was learning to play the guitar,” the lawsuit says. “He was teaching his youngest brother how to roller skate.

“But Henry could also be moody and had begun exhibiting impulsive aggression. In the months leading up to his death, Henry began to experience symptoms of schizophrenia, broke his neck during a serious fall, and ran into trouble with the law.”


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Mom sues Nebraska company that sold her teen a 'ghost gun' kit he used to take his life (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 31 OP
.. SheltieLover Jul 31 #1
I dont understand the lawsuit Fullduplexxx Jul 31 #2
No she doesn't...maybe selling handguns to a minor? justaprogressive Jul 31 #3
The article makes it clear. eggplant Jul 31 #4
He was under age and had a domestic conviction Omaha Steve Jul 31 #5
That would imply the laws are not working, would it not. twodogsbarking Jul 31 #6
That will be up to the jury? Omaha Steve Jul 31 #7
The Biden admin regulated ghost guns as real firearms in 2022 NickB79 Jul 31 #8

Fullduplexxx

(8,550 posts)
2. I dont understand the lawsuit
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 04:11 PM
Jul 31

She says Nebraska companies she says illegally enabled him to obtain the gun he used to take his life.
But she doesn't say how .

justaprogressive

(5,174 posts)
3. No she doesn't...maybe selling handguns to a minor?
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 04:20 PM
Jul 31

In Nebraska a person must be at least age 21 to receive a handgun purchase certificate or concealed handgun permit...

eggplant

(4,108 posts)
4. The article makes it clear.
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 04:23 PM
Jul 31

Neither Husky nor Up North Media is a federally licensed firearms dealer, the suit states. Instead, the companies provide what the suit describes as “easy-to assemble, almost-complete, all-parts-included kits” for building “ghost guns,” which do not have a serial number and are sold without a background check.

“Henry only needed to drill out two holes, insert screws, remove five plastic tabs, and assemble the weapon in order to have a fully operable Glock 19-style handgun,” the lawsuit states. “Instructions for how to build the Kit were readily available to him online—including on the website of Husky Armory’s affiliate, 3D Gun Builder.”

A press release states that “the Kit included a nearly finished Polymer80 Glock-style frame — the same type at the heart of the recent United States Supreme Court ruling in Bondi v. VanDerStok, which affirmed that such Kits are firearms under federal law and must comply with all federal gun sale requirements, including background checks and sales through licensed dealers.”

NickB79

(20,051 posts)
8. The Biden admin regulated ghost guns as real firearms in 2022
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 08:39 PM
Jul 31

It was immediately challenged in court, but the Supreme Court refused to place the law on hold while it was appealed. The law was later found lawful and upheld by the Supreme Court.Therefore, any ghost gun kits sold after 2022 were technically illegal if sold without a federal background check like a true firearm.

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