President Joe Biden announced this week his desire to further regulate so-called “ghost guns”: homemade firearms made from parts bought online that don’t have traceable serial numbers. Biden would like to see the individual kits and parts treated as weapons, with serial numbers and a requirement for background checks. Host Marco Werman speaks with Ioan Grillo, a journalist and author of “Blood, Gun, Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels.”
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