Ghost Guns
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"Restrictions on untraceable "ghost guns" in the US will remain in place, while the White House appeals against a court ruling which prevented them being classified as a firearm.
In July, a Texas court blocked a 2022 rule requiring self-assembled "ghost gun" kits to have serial numbers.
Pro-gun rights groups had sued to stop legally classifying them as a firearm.
But on Tuesday the US Supreme Court allowed restrictions to remain in place while a legal challenge is ongoing.
The decision comes as the President Joe Biden's administration faces pressure to take more action on gun violence.
Tuesday's 5-4 Supreme Court ruling means that the regulation will stand while the White House appeals the Texas decision. That appeal could eventually end up back in front of the Supreme Court." -
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday barred two Texas-based manufacturers from selling products that can be quickly converted at home into firearms called "ghost guns," granting a request by President Joe Biden's administration to once again block a federal judge's order that had sided with companies.
The justices lifted Fort Worth-based U.S. Judge Reed O'Connor's Sept. 14 injunction barring enforcement of a 2022 federal regulation - a rule aimed at reining in the privately made firearms - against the two manufacturers, Blackhawk Manufacturing and Defense Distributed.
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/supreme-court-ghost-guns/index.html
The Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled a willingness to uphold a Biden administration regulation on “ghost guns,” mail-order kits that allow people to build untraceable weapons at home and that are turning up at crime scenes with greater frequency.
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Several of the court’s conservatives — and all of its liberals — appeared skeptical of the notion that the kits are geared toward a tradition of gunsmithing hobbyists. Chief Justice John Roberts, in particular, brushed off the idea that building the kind of gun kits at issue was equivalent to someone working on a classic car.
“Drilling a hole or two, I would think, doesn’t give the same sort of reward that you get from working on your car on the weekends,” Roberts said to the lawyer representing the kit manufacturers. “My understanding is that it’s not terribly difficult for someone to do this.”
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At issue is a 1968 law that requires manufacturers and dealers to run background checks, keep sales records and include serial numbers on firearms. The ATF concluded that the law coves the kits, which the agency said can quickly be built into functioning firearms. The rule does not prohibit the sale or possession of the kits but instead requires serial numbers and background checks.
