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BumRushDaShow

(129,512 posts) Mon Apr 22, 2024, 10:03 AM Apr 22

Supreme Court to decide if Biden administration can regulate 'ghost guns'

Source: NBC News

April 22, 2024, 9:32 AM EDT

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the Biden administration can lawfully regulate so-called ghost guns — firearms that are made from kits available online that people can assemble at home.

The justices took up a Biden administration appeal in defense of regulations that a lower court invalidated. The provisions in question are currently in effect while litigation continues.

In August of last year, the Supreme Court allowed the regulation to be enforced on a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts and fellow conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberal justices in the majority.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued the regulations in 2022 to tackle what it claims has been an abrupt increase in the availability of ghost guns. The guns are difficult for law enforcement to trace, with the administration calling them a major threat to public safety.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-decide-biden-administration-can-regulate-ghost-guns-rcna147065

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Supreme Court to decide if Biden administration can regulate 'ghost guns' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Apr 22 OP

The Supreme Court does not want the killing to stop. Irish_Dem Apr 22 #1

I'm guessing it depends on how much profit there is for the big gun manufacturers. groundloop Apr 22 #7

Depends on how much of that profit goes into SC pockets. Irish_Dem Apr 22 #9

Blood on their hands. Kid Berwyn Apr 22 #8

Yes there is a great deal of blood on their hands. Irish_Dem Apr 22 #10

SCOTUS-6(R) must decide if they're on the side of law, order, justice, peace, and public safety bucolic_frolic Apr 22 #2

It's a fact that our forefathers could never foresee future weapon inventions. (bear arms was just that, a musket type) bluestarone Apr 22 #3

How will 3-D printed "Ghost" guns be justified by the Founding fathers? sanatanadharma Apr 22 #4

From a legal perspective, that's really easy. When the 2nd Amendment was ratified into our constitution, citizens' 24601 Apr 22 #12

would imagine ghost guns are lost $$$ for gun companies dembotoz Apr 22 #5

Guns allowed in the court? Aren't these the same people who were cbabe Apr 22 #6

I don't think that guns had serial numbers Old Crank Apr 22 #11

How they will probably find jmowreader Apr 25 #13

Irish_Dem

(47,434 posts)

1. The Supreme Court does not want the killing to stop.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 10:05 AM

Apr 22

They encourage it.

groundloop

(11,523 posts)

7. I'm guessing it depends on how much profit there is for the big gun manufacturers.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 11:52 AM

Apr 22

Irish_Dem

(47,434 posts)

9. Depends on how much of that profit goes into SC pockets.

Reply to groundloop (Reply #7)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 11:57 AM

Apr 22

Kid Berwyn

(14,965 posts)

8. Blood on their hands.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 11:53 AM

Apr 22

Gun humpers über school children.

Irish_Dem

(47,434 posts)

10. Yes there is a great deal of blood on their hands.

Reply to Kid Berwyn (Reply #8)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 11:58 AM

Apr 22

They know our founding fathers did not intend for Americans to be killed with military
weapons as they went about their daily business.

Including children sitting at school.

bucolic_frolic

(43,296 posts)

2. SCOTUS-6(R) must decide if they're on the side of law, order, justice, peace, and public safety

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 10:06 AM

Apr 22

or if 2A NRA Republican ideology is more important to them.

bluestarone

(17,043 posts)

3. It's a fact that our forefathers could never foresee future weapon inventions. (bear arms was just that, a musket type)

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 10:14 AM

Apr 22

IF the SC can outlaw Machine guns, grenades, briefcase bombs, they opened the door to regulate ANY weapon. They need to DO JUST THAT!! Way past time to regulate automatic and ghost weapons.

sanatanadharma

(3,730 posts)

4. How will 3-D printed "Ghost" guns be justified by the Founding fathers?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 10:16 AM

Apr 22

How will 3-D printed "Ghost" guns be justified by the Founding fathers?

Inquiring minds want to know how to square that circle without violating human ethics or 18th century knowledge or the laws of nature.

24601

(3,963 posts)

12. From a legal perspective, that's really easy. When the 2nd Amendment was ratified into our constitution, citizens'

Reply to sanatanadharma (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 04:46 PM

Apr 22

individual firearms didn't have serial numbers, which became widely used only after the Gun Control Act of 1968. Serial numbers weren't even used on military weapons until the mid-1860s.

dembotoz

(16,835 posts)

5. would imagine ghost guns are lost $$$ for gun companies

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 10:52 AM

Apr 22

same way cooking at home is less money for taco bell

cbabe

(3,549 posts)

6. Guns allowed in the court? Aren't these the same people who were

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 10:56 AM

Apr 22

angry about chalk on the sidewalk in front of their homes?

Same as all of us can be spied on thanks to fisa renewal. Except for congressional members. They’re exempt.

We are farther down the road then realized.

Old Crank

(3,628 posts)

11. I don't think that guns had serial numbers

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2024, 01:02 PM

Apr 22

back when the constitution was ratified.
That might be enough for the 'originalists' wackos to rule for the manufacture of the guns.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)

13. How they will probably find

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2024, 06:54 AM

Apr 25

The practice of a shooter making his or her own gun is a time-honored tradition in the United States. Kits to construct muzzleloading rifles, pistols and shotguns have been available for far longer than AR-15 inventor Eugene Stoner was alive. Since this Court believes that no law should exist if George Washington didn't sign one just like it, we must prohibit President Biden from regulating homemade AR-15s.

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