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Supreme Court upholds rules requiring background checks for ‘ghost guns’
CNN ^ | March 26, 2025 | John Fritze

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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It appears the SCOTUS is giving credence to a gun law that is not historical. Yet, the Bruen decision definitely pointed towards the historical meaning of the 2nd Amendment.

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!!

1 posted on 03/26/2025 8:26:46 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: Racketeer

Mysterious disembodied voice after the ruling: “Oh? Take away my gun rights, eh? I’ll be seeing you.” 👻


2 posted on 03/26/2025 8:33:22 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Racketeer

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.


3 posted on 03/26/2025 8:34:21 AM PDT by sloanrb
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So... like the Colonial volunteers, we're to send the background checks to Britain?

Because we decided the exact opposite in 1776. The judges who voted for this can be deported back to England.

4 posted on 03/26/2025 8:35:21 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Racketeer

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.


5 posted on 03/26/2025 8:37:10 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: sloanrb

Actually, illegal gangs get most of their guns made this way.


6 posted on 03/26/2025 8:37:15 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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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?


7 posted on 03/26/2025 8:39:33 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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Another article
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4306878/posts?page=12


8 posted on 03/26/2025 8:41:01 AM PDT by deport
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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.


9 posted on 03/26/2025 8:49:19 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: Racketeer

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.


10 posted on 03/26/2025 8:53:38 AM PDT by j_guru
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image not showing up so here is link https://i.postimg.cc/nzCVGZQB/9mmpistol.jpg
11 posted on 03/26/2025 8:55:47 AM PDT by eyeamok
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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.


12 posted on 03/26/2025 9:06:53 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: ConservativeMind

Do you have a citation for that claim?


13 posted on 03/26/2025 9:18:52 AM PDT by cbvanb
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To: Racketeer

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.


14 posted on 03/26/2025 9:28:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Bureaucratic District "Judges" are the greatest threat to America and Americans.)
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The court creates so much of the utter contempt for the law in today’s society

It’s disgusting !


15 posted on 03/26/2025 9:36:29 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Racketeer

According to a number of TV shows, ghost buns are mass produced and sold to criminals all the time.


16 posted on 03/26/2025 9:37:19 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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According to a number of TV shows, ghost guns are mass produced and sold to criminals all the time.

Damn that AI crap.


17 posted on 03/26/2025 9:38:01 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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To: Racketeer

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4306878/posts

😊👍


18 posted on 03/26/2025 9:44:52 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: cbvanb
I'll give you the National Geographic show on this, where I saw it happen and be talked to.

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller - Ghost Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQ-GKl-Q-o

19 posted on 03/26/2025 9:47:49 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Racketeer

“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.


20 posted on 03/26/2025 10:29:59 AM PDT by oldeguy (you can take my firearms when you find the creek I lost them in.)
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