The Honolulu Police Department is proposing new legislation to stem what it says is a rising number of ghost guns on Oahu. Registered firearms have a serial number and a document trail. Ghost guns don’t. Five years after Kapono Miranda used one to kill Alan Jennings in an Ala Moana parking lot, privately-made firearms are on the rise.

<p>The Honolulu Police Department is proposing new legislation to stem what it says is a rising number of ghost guns on Oahu. Registered firearms have a serial number and a document trail. Ghost guns don’t. Five years after Kapono Miranda used one to kill Alan Jennings in an Ala Moana parking lot, privately-made firearms are on the rise.</p>

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