ST. PAUL, MN, Minn. (GRAY) – Minnesota’s Supreme Court issued an opinion on Wednesday that so-called “ghost guns” are not illegal.

The ruling comes from a case from 2022, where an officer was responding to a crash in Fridley. The officer encountered the owner of the vehicle, a man named Logan Hunter Vagle, at the scene. In Vagle’s vehicle, he located a 9mm pistol that did not have a serial number. The pistol was a ghost gun.

Ghost guns are firearms that are assembled by the gun owner. Since they seldom have serial numbers, they’re effectively untraceable.

Vagle was charged with felony possession of a firearm without a serial number.

The case eventually made its way to the state Supreme Court, which ruled that Minnesota’s law requiring serial numbers on firearms was intended to mirror U

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