Supreme Court to decide if Biden administration can regulate 'ghost guns'
Source: NBC News
April 22, 2024, 9:32 AM EDT
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the Biden administration can lawfully regulate so-called ghost guns firearms that are made from kits available online that people can assemble at home.
The justices took up a Biden administration appeal in defense of regulations that a lower court invalidated. The provisions in question are currently in effect while litigation continues.
In August of last year, the Supreme Court allowed the regulation to be enforced on a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts and fellow conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberal justices in the majority.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued the regulations in 2022 to tackle what it claims has been an abrupt increase in the availability of ghost guns. The guns are difficult for law enforcement to trace, with the administration calling them a major threat to public safety.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-decide-biden-administration-can-regulate-ghost-guns-rcna147065
Irish_Dem
(47,456 posts)They encourage it.
groundloop
(11,523 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,456 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,971 posts)Gun humpers über school children.
Irish_Dem
(47,456 posts)They know our founding fathers did not intend for Americans to be killed with military
weapons as they went about their daily business.
Including children sitting at school.
bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)or if 2A NRA Republican ideology is more important to them.
bluestarone
(17,058 posts)IF the SC can outlaw Machine guns, grenades, briefcase bombs, they opened the door to regulate ANY weapon. They need to DO JUST THAT!! Way past time to regulate automatic and ghost weapons.
sanatanadharma
(3,736 posts)How will 3-D printed "Ghost" guns be justified by the Founding fathers?
Inquiring minds want to know how to square that circle without violating human ethics or 18th century knowledge or the laws of nature.
24601
(3,963 posts)individual firearms didn't have serial numbers, which became widely used only after the Gun Control Act of 1968. Serial numbers weren't even used on military weapons until the mid-1860s.
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)same way cooking at home is less money for taco bell
cbabe
(3,551 posts)angry about chalk on the sidewalk in front of their homes?
Same as all of us can be spied on thanks to fisa renewal. Except for congressional members. Theyre exempt.
We are farther down the road then realized.
Old Crank
(3,638 posts)back when the constitution was ratified.
That might be enough for the 'originalists' wackos to rule for the manufacture of the guns.
jmowreader
(50,566 posts)The practice of a shooter making his or her own gun is a time-honored tradition in the United States. Kits to construct muzzleloading rifles, pistols and shotguns have been available for far longer than AR-15 inventor Eugene Stoner was alive. Since this Court believes that no law should exist if George Washington didn't sign one just like it, we must prohibit President Biden from regulating homemade AR-15s.