Will the Supreme Court flood the nation with ghost guns?
54 years, 11 months ago

Will the Supreme Court flood the nation with ghost guns?

Slate  

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Garland v. VanDerStok, a case with life-and-death implications for gun violence in the United States. The justices will consider a rule issued by the Biden administration cracking down on “ghost guns”—fully functioning firearms that are disproportionately used to commit murder, domestic abuse, and terrorism. The Supreme Court allowed new restrictions on the sale of ghost guns to take effect in August 2023, albeit by a 5–4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the liberals. Mark Joseph Stern: Just to get one thing straight: The rule we’re talking about here doesn’t ban ghost guns outright, correct? Lower courts initially blocked the ghost gun rule, but the Supreme Court allowed it to take effect last year.

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SCOTUS Seems Likely To Keep Biden Limits On 'Ghost Guns'
2 months, 2 weeks ago

SCOTUS Seems Likely To Keep Biden Limits On 'Ghost Guns'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Several conservative Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of a challenge to a Biden administration rule requiring untraceable “ghost guns” to be regulated like regular firearms during oral arguments on Tuesday. “If the Court now says that one undrilled hole is enough to prevent regulation, it is going to be a sea change,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said, …

Supreme Court to hear challenge to ghost-gun regulation
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court to hear challenge to ghost-gun regulation

The Independent  

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Supreme Court appears to lean in favor of federal ban on sale of gun kits
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court appears to lean in favor of federal ban on sale of gun kits

LA Times  

The Supreme Court justices gave a friendly hearing Tuesday to the Biden administration’s regulation that prohibits the sale of easy-to-assemble firearms that can be sold online or through the mail. “Today the ghost gun industry’s fiction that its gun building kits are not firearms crashed into a brick wall of reality in the Supreme Court,” said Eric Tirschwell, executive director …

SCOTUS Police Weigh In On Ghost Guns Ahead Of Arguments
2 months, 2 weeks ago

SCOTUS Police Weigh In On Ghost Guns Ahead Of Arguments

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in Garland v. VanDerStok, a case that promises to settle the question of whether weapon parts kits for “ghost guns” require the same regulation as complete firearms bought and sold at gun stores. As nine of the most powerful legal minds prepared to consider whether ghost guns …

The flood of ghost guns is slowing after regulation. It's also being challenged in the Supreme Court
2 months, 3 weeks ago

The flood of ghost guns is slowing after regulation. It's also being challenged in the Supreme Court

The Independent  

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Supreme Court will tackle transgender rights, ‘ghost guns’ in term beginning Monday
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court will tackle transgender rights, ‘ghost guns’ in term beginning Monday

LA Times  

People attend a rally as part of Transgender Day of Visibility near the U.S. Capitol on March 31, 2023. The Supreme Court opened a new term Monday, facing major decisions on whether states can ban “gender-affirming care” for transgender teens and if the U.S. government can restrict the sale of untraceable “ghost guns.” Both cases could have a broad impact …

Oregon ban on hard-to-trace ghost guns goes into effect Sunday
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Oregon ban on hard-to-trace ghost guns goes into effect Sunday

Associated Press  

PORTLAND, Ore. — So-called ghost guns, privately made firearms that don’t have serial numbers and are largely untraceable, will be banned across Oregon starting Sunday after a federal judge denied a legal challenge that tried to block the prohibition. Ghost guns differ from weapons manufactured by licensed companies in that the latter are generally required to have serial numbers — …

Massachusetts governor signs bill cracking down on hard-to-trace ‘ghost guns’
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Massachusetts governor signs bill cracking down on hard-to-trace ‘ghost guns’

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a sweeping gun bill Thursday that supporters say builds on the state’s existing gun laws, including a crackdown on hard to trace “ghost guns,” while safeguarding the rights of gun owners. The law expands the state’s extreme risk protective order law — also known as the red flag law — by authorizing health …

Supreme Court Will Take Up The Legal Fight Over Ghost Guns
8 months ago

Supreme Court Will Take Up The Legal Fight Over Ghost Guns

Huff Post  

FILE - The Supreme Court of the United States is seen in Washington, March 26, 2024. AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. The requirement applies regardless of how the firearm was made, …

What's behind Amy Coney Barrett’s surprise vote on ghost guns?
54 years, 11 months ago

What's behind Amy Coney Barrett’s surprise vote on ghost guns?

Slate  

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court sided against criminals who wish to purchase untraceable guns online for the purpose of committing crimes. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the three liberals to preserve a new federal rule that restricts the sale of “ghost guns” to licensed firearm dealers. As part of President Joe Biden’s push against gun …

Supreme Court narrowly allows Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ regulations to continue
1 year, 4 months ago

Supreme Court narrowly allows Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ regulations to continue

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The US Supreme Court …

Supreme Court reinstates regulation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers
1 year, 4 months ago

Supreme Court reinstates regulation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is reinstating a regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that have been turning up at crime scenes across the nation in increasing numbers. “The public-safety interests in reversing the flow of ghost guns to dangerous and otherwise prohibited persons easily outweighs the minor costs that respondents will …

Supreme Court revives federal rules against ‘ghost guns’
1 year, 4 months ago

Supreme Court revives federal rules against ‘ghost guns’

LA Times  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted an emergency appeal from the Biden administration and revived federal rules that forbid the sale or use of assembled guns that can be bought online and are untraceable. The justices set aside a Texas judge’s order from last month that had voided the federal rules on these “ghost guns.” The vote was 5 to …

US Supreme Court reinstates ‘ghost gun’ rule struck down by lower court
1 year, 4 months ago

US Supreme Court reinstates ‘ghost gun’ rule struck down by lower court

Al Jazeera  

US Department of Justice says more than 19,000 firearms without serial numbers were seized in crime probes in 2021. The US Supreme Court has temporarily reinstated a rule cracking down on the proliferation of firearms without serial numbers, known as “ghost guns”, reversing a ruling by a lower court. In a narrow 5-4 decision on Tuesday, the nation’s highest judicial …

Ghost guns banned under new Colorado law signed by governor
1 year, 6 months ago

Ghost guns banned under new Colorado law signed by governor

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Jared Polis signed a bill Friday banning firearms that …

Why Gun Reform Is Being Strangled By The Courts
1 year, 9 months ago

Why Gun Reform Is Being Strangled By The Courts

Huff Post  

Oregon voters handed gun reformers a major victory when they backed a ballot measure creating one of the country’s most stringent systems for buying and selling firearms in 2022. When District Judge Roger Benitez overturned California’s 34-year-old assault weapons ban two years ago, he pointed to Heller, saying that under the decision, “it is obvious that the California assault weapon …

Biden aims at ‘ghost gun’ violence with new federal rule
2 years, 8 months ago

Biden aims at ‘ghost gun’ violence with new federal rule

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday took fresh aim at ghost guns, the privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up in violent crimes, as he struggles to break past gun-control opposition to address firearm deaths. But gun safety advocacy groups, like Everytown for Gun Safety, which pushed the federal government for years to take action …

EXPLAINER: What are ghost guns? Why is Biden taking action?
2 years, 8 months ago

EXPLAINER: What are ghost guns? Why is Biden taking action?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is unveiling a completed rule aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that have been turning up at crime scenes across the nation in increasing numbers. The White House and the Justice Department argue that regulating the firearms parts and requiring dealers to stamp serial numbers on ghost guns …

EXPLAINER: What are ghost guns? Why is Biden taking action?
2 years, 8 months ago

EXPLAINER: What are ghost guns? Why is Biden taking action?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Biden administration is unveiling …

Biden to nominate new ATF director, release ghost gun rule
2 years, 8 months ago

Biden to nominate new ATF director, release ghost gun rule

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is nominating an Obama-era U.S. attorney to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as his administration unveils its formal rule to rein in ghost guns, privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes, six people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The administration will …

Biden seeks to crack down on ‘ghost guns’ with new rule
2 years, 8 months ago

Biden seeks to crack down on ‘ghost guns’ with new rule

Al Jazeera  

The guns, which are assembled at home and lack tracking numbers, have been increasingly recovered at crime scenes in US. United States President Joe Biden has unveiled a new Department of Justice rule that he hopes will crack down on so-called “ghost guns”, drawing condemnation from a gun rights group but support from gun control advocates. But gun safety advocacy …

Biden administration, DOJ expected to announce new ‘ghost gun’ rules
2 years, 8 months ago

Biden administration, DOJ expected to announce new ‘ghost gun’ rules

LA Times  

The Biden administration is expected to come out with its long-awaited rule on “ghost guns” within days. President Biden is nominating an Obama-era U.S. attorney to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as his administration unveils its formal rule to rein in “ghost guns,” the privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at …

Editorial: Domestic abusers still have access to guns. That has got to change
2 years, 9 months ago

Editorial: Domestic abusers still have access to guns. That has got to change

LA Times  

The entrance to the parking lot at the Church in Sacramento, where a man shot and killed his three daughters, their chaperone and himself during a supervised visit with the girls. And yet, because of California’s lax enforcement of gun prohibitions, and the availability of “ghost guns” and illegal firearms, people who were known to be dangerous were able to …

‘An instrument of death’: The problem of ghost guns in California
3 years, 1 month ago

‘An instrument of death’: The problem of ghost guns in California

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. Police departments across California are reporting an increase in “ghost guns.” The Los Angeles Police Department said in a report released last month that detectives have linked the untraceable weapons to 24 killings, eight attempted homicides and dozens of assaults and armed robberies since January. In 2020, California accounted for 65% …

LAPD declares ‘ghost guns’ an ‘epidemic,’ citing 400% increase in seizures
3 years, 2 months ago

LAPD declares ‘ghost guns’ an ‘epidemic,’ citing 400% increase in seizures

LA Times  

The proliferation of homemade “ghost guns” has skyrocketed in Los Angeles, contributing to more than 100 violent crimes this year, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a report released Friday. Koretz called the latest data “appalling” and said the report “reaffirms the fact that these weapons have only wreaked havoc on our streets and should have no place in …

San Francisco sues 3 California-based ‘ghost gun’ makers
3 years, 4 months ago

San Francisco sues 3 California-based ‘ghost gun’ makers

LA Times  

San Francisco police display some “ghost guns,” which accounted for nearly half the firearms recovered in the city’s gun killings last year. San Francisco’s district attorney is suing three California companies that make and distribute “ghost guns,” the untraceable, build-it-yourself weaponry that accounted for nearly half the firearms recovered in gun killings in the city last year. In 2020, California …

Editorial: We need to tighten up regulations on deadly ‘ghost guns’
3 years, 10 months ago

Editorial: We need to tighten up regulations on deadly ‘ghost guns’

LA Times  

For several years now, some gun makers have been exploiting a loophole in federal regulations to evade a range of gun control measures by selling firearms in pieces to be assembled later by consumers, including people barred from owning a gun. No charges have been filed, but a federal affidavit alleges that the firm sold the kits without conducting background …

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