Posted on 08/08/2023 10:49:16 AM PDT by thegagline
The Supreme Court revived the Biden administration’s restrictions on so-called ghost guns in a 5-4 emergency ruling Tuesday.
The justices agreed to pause a lower court’s decision, which invalidated the regulation nationwide, as the administration continues its appeal.
The decision hands a victory to Biden, at least for now. Biden last year announced the crackdown on ghost guns, referring to firearms that are sold as do-it-yourself kits and are generally hard to trace.
The case will now proceed in a lower appeals court, which is slated to hear oral arguments next month. The matter could ultimately return to the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three liberals in temporarily reviving the restrictions. Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.
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At issue is how the ATF places restrictions on ghost guns by expanding its interpretation of two provisions of a long-standing federal gun law. The first clarifies that the federal definition of a “firearm” includes certain parts kits, and the second defines “frame or receiver” to include disassembled parts that can be readily converted into a functional gun.
By expanding the definitions, the regulation stretches federal serial number, record-keeping and background-check requirements to ghost guns. But the federal judge in Texas ruled the ATF’s interpretation exceeded the law’s scope. ***
Allowing the judge’s ruling “to take effect would let tens of thousands of untraceable ghost guns flow into our Nation’s communities — with many going to felons, minors, or those intending to use them in crimes,” the Justice Department wrote in court filings.
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Give me a freakin’ break!
You make a gun in shop class.
Not you. The stat of 623,000 is intended to mislead. That’s just ATF just my existence busywork. They like to pretend that’s crime fighting activity. It isn’t…. not by a longshot. I can assure you it’s rare to almost unheard of that an officer finds anything useful or does a crime from the serial number of a firearm, besides who the rightful owner of a stolen gun is.
Just doesn’t happen.
Although these days it will probably be used to criminalize the owner of the gun who had it stolen for not locking it up inside of a bank vault safe with a trigger lock on it.
Sorry. And I agree that the ATF statistic is dubious and I would go further and say it should be dismantled.
Amy conehead Barrett stabbed us in the back as her very first official act. Pennsylvania was under a court order not to mix ballots and late arriving mail in ballots after a certain date with all the others. She refused to enforce it because she said she hadn’t been on the court long enough. That left a 4 to 4 vote and she wouldn’t break the tie. So Pennsylvania was stolen. She should’ve never been appointed. She was only appointed because of her plumbing. They openly said it was a woman’s seat.
Your the communist.
Good old 68 GCA, courtesy of LBJ, started it. Most were serialized by factories before that. My first gun, a 22 Winchester bolt has no SN.
I doubt either of them knows the first thing about firearms.
I withhold judgment pending decision on assault weapon/magazine bans soon to be forthcoming.
Where did they come with this “ghost gun” bull shit? I wish I had one that was invisible!😎
Tabletop CNC machines are currently available to the public that will mill a 0 percent lower receiver - that’s a solid block of plastic or aluminum. Are they going to ban sales of those next?
Zzzzzz. Losing it flavor. You democrats like to label people. You throw around racist a lot too.
Congress stupidly ceded its legislative authority to the Executive.
The result is Biden and his request to the ATF for certain parts to be serialized, President Trump’s request to the ATF regarding bump stocks being reclassified, etc.
Congress needs to take back its authority.
Amy is a bleeding jennyass.
Democrats will want to ban private ownership of machine tools.
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