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Posted on 03/26/2025 8:26:46 AM PDT by Racketeer
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Biden-era federal regulations on “ghost guns,” mail-order kits that allow people to build untraceable weapons at home – handing gun control groups a rare win at the conservative high court. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for a 7-2 majority that included both liberal and conservative justices in one of the most closely watched Supreme Court cases of the year. “Perhaps a half hour of work is required before anyone can fire a shot,” Gorsuch wrote. “But even as sold, the kit comes with all necessary components, and its intended function as instrument of combat is obvious. Really, the kit’s name says it all: ‘Buy Build Shoot.’
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This decision seems to say none of that matters. Judges love to keep it conflicting for it ensures job security for the legal profession.
I happen to agree with William Shakespeare's statement regarding lawyers!!
Mysterious disembodied voice after the ruling: “Oh? Take away my gun rights, eh? I’ll be seeing you.” 👻
At least Alito and Thomas don’t have their heads up their rears.
Seriously, how does this help reduce gun crime? It doesn’t. Criminals usually get their weapons by theft. All this does is increase bureaucracy and inconvenience law abiding gun owners.
We need to have a constitutional amendment that any judge who doesn’t understand the words “Shall not be infringed” should automatically be disbarred.
Because we decided the exact opposite in 1776. The judges who voted for this can be deported back to England.
The following is the beginning of a manual put out by the Army in 1969, TM 301-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook
Pipe Pistol for 9mm ammunition.
1/4” steel pipe 4-6 inches long with threaded ends.
1/4” Solid Pipe Plug
2 Steel Pipe Couplings
Metal Strap roughly 1/8” x 1/4” x 5”
flat head nail 6d or 8d
2 wood screws
wood 8” x 5” x 1”
Drill
1/4” wood or metal rod approx 8 inches long
Then it gives detailed instructions on assembly.
Will Lowes and Home Depopt start demanding Baqckground check to buy small steel pipe??
The next page gives the same detailed instructions to build a 12 gauge shotgun in the same way.
Actually, illegal gangs get most of their guns made this way.
Tower, Charleville, home-made and custom gunsmith’s rifles from our first American Revolutionary War ALL had serial numbers on them so the Crown could tax them and know who bought them, right?
Right?
Another article
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4306878/posts?page=12
You got it, however most of the long guns used by the Colonists in the early part of the Revolutionary War were fowling pieces, that fired either round balls, buck and ball, or shot, not rifles.
I can understand the ruling as it pertains to kits that are assemble, and shoot, but the label ghost gun is typically slapped on those 80% AR15 lowers. wonder if those will be impacted by this.
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“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
If the justices think that it is so easy to complete unfinished frames, receivers, 80% lowers or whatever you want to refer to them as and assemble a “gun kit” and actually put it all together and head out to the range... The justices should try it for themselves before wasting time arguing about it. My guess is that they would find that there is a lot more to this than just “drilling a hole or two.
There are lots of videos on YouTube that show someone installing new gaskets in their intake manifold or head(s) or tearing down and fixing a transmission that make it look very easy. But the reality is that it takes time, patience, knowledge and experience along with the proper tools.
I have all sorts of friends and acquaintances who have purchased so called “80% kits”. For some reason the vast majority never actually finish them and use them in a real gun. Why is that? Because there is quite a bit more to it than what Roberts believes.
Do you have a citation for that claim?
The Judicial Branch is trashing America and this is all they could find to do? Time for DOGE to defund the SCOTUS. It’s worthless to Americans. Fraud, Waste and Abuse. We’ve got the foreign district “judges” making the laws now. They have more authority than SCOTUS. Biden told them through their translators that they did when he hired them.
The court creates so much of the utter contempt for the law in today’s society
It’s disgusting !
According to a number of TV shows, ghost buns are mass produced and sold to criminals all the time.
According to a number of TV shows, ghost guns are mass produced and sold to criminals all the time.
Damn that AI crap.
Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller - Ghost Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQ-GKl-Q-o
“Perhaps a half hour of work is required before anyone can fire a shot,” Gorsuch wrote.”
Before I lost them in a boating accident, I built 2 AR lowers from blanks. I didn’t use any patterns other than my own, no milling machine, and none of the available (at the time) metal drilling templates either. Each one of those lowers took approximately 2 weeks to complete.
If I had it to do over, I’d just buy the finished lower for less than a $100 and be done with it.
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