In 2022, Nevada enacted a ban on ghost guns, which are firearms without serial numbers that are sold as kits that users assemble on their own. It is one of 15 states that created legislation regulating those weapons, which law enforcement has flagged as untraceable.

Kathy Hochul's focus on "assault weapons" is puzzling, since the perpetrator easily could have killed the same number of people with a gun that did not fall into that politically defined category.