Ghost Hammers

A bunch of good suggestions in the comment regarding the unregistered purchases of hammers by the mentally ill:

• Hammers should have serial numbers and be controlled
• You should need three forms of ID to buy a hammer
• you really should have a background check before you are allowed to buy a hammer. Fingerprints and a DNA sample should go to the Feds for every hammer sale
• What Illinois needs to do is create an H.O.I.D. card so that we know when people buy a hammer they have been trained and the hammer is registered

All good suggestions....but they don't address the most concerning aspect of this entire class of weapons:

• Ghost Hammers

Did you know that you can actually build your own hammer? Without any sort of government oversight? And then you can sell these blunt instruments on the street....for profit....and without any sort of background checks? 

Look at some of these we found on-line:

You can tell some of them were recovered at crime scenes because there's a evidentiary ruler in the picture so as to document the barrel, handle length and caliber of the hammer. 

And according to fbi statistics, hammers are used in far more homicides that "assault rifles"

Are they 3D printing hammers yet? There ought to be a law about that.