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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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SheltieLover
(72,982 posts)
Fullduplexxx
(8,550 posts)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)In Nebraska a person must be at least age 21 to receive a handgun purchase certificate or concealed handgun permit...
eggplant
(4,108 posts)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 onlineincluding on the website of Husky Armorys 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.
Omaha Steve
(106,757 posts)He couldn't legally own the gun.

twodogsbarking
(15,184 posts)Greetings Steve.
Omaha Steve
(106,757 posts)
NickB79
(20,051 posts)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.