A few years ago, the Biden Administration convinced the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to enact a ban on so-called ghost guns. These are kits capable of producing functional firearms quickly without having serial numbers associated with them for government tracking purposes. The ban was almost immediately challenged by more than two dozen GOP-led states, eventually being struck down by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas in 2023. with the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the decision. The Supreme Court narrowly upheld Biden’s position by a 5-4 margin later last year. Now they’re back for another bite at the apple. (Associated Press)
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge Tuesday to a Biden administration regulation on ghost guns, the difficult-to-trace weapons with an exponentially increased link to crime in recent years.
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