The US Supreme Court voted 7-2 to uphold a Biden Administration regulation targeting “ghost guns” — firearms assembled from components or kits that lack serial numbers and are untraceable. Many hobbyists enjoy making these types of firearms.
The Biden rule mades unserialized “buy build shoot” kits illegal. Gun plans and molding materials for 3-D printers are also illegal, as is making a firearm with a 3-D printer if there is no serial number on the firearm.
The court decision bolsters the authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to regulate at least some of these weapons under the Gun Control Act of 1968. Gun control advocates applauded the court ruling.
The majority opinion was authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, who concluded that the ATF’s rule falls within the scope of the 1968 law, which grants the agency broad authority to regulate firearms in interstate commerce.
Gorsuch wrote that the rule aligns with Congress’s intent to curb the circulation of dangerous weapons while balancing Second Amendment considerations.
The high court stopped short of issuing a blanket endorsement of the regulation’s application. The decision leaves room for future challenges to specific kits or products, which means individuals or manufacturers could contest the rule’s authority on a case-by-case basis.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, arguing that the Biden Administration’s ATF overstepped its authority.
Thomas’ dissent says the regulation expands the definition of a “firearm” beyond what Congress originally intended in 1968, imposing new restrictions without congressional approval.
Alito questioned the rule’s fundamental compatibility with Second Amendment rights and warned of its infringement on the freedoms of law-abiding citizens.
Good luck enforcing it.
Printable guns make the state queasy- for mostly good reasons. The state should always be wary and fearful of the populace they rule over. Look what happens to the people when the state does not fear them. The current exhibit A would be the UK (or the YooKay as it is turning into).
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Let me get his right? Americans for 250 years have been able to build their own firearms. And this has been upheld by the Supreme Court. Next: re-name them “Ghost Guns” and the Supremes change their mind? Precedence has been set. And resulting cases will only make this worse. This smells.
Words matter, especially in legal considerations.
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The operative word, based on the article above, appears to be “kit.” If I remember the Biden ATF rule correctly, it did not outlaw an individual from building their own firearm. It outlawed sellers from providing everything you need in one purchase. They could not legally sell you the 80% frame, the jig, the barrel/slide and fire control group at the same time.
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And, I agree with you totally, it smells. Even if you can still get 80% receivers, and the parts, it still stinks.
Read it again:
“…….The Biden rule mades UNSERIALIZED “buy build shoot” kits illegal. Gun plans and molding materials for 3-D printers are also illegal, as is making a firearm with a 3-D printer IF THERE IS NO SERIAL NUMBER on the firearm……..”
The federal government has the authority and responsibility to regulate interstate and international commerce. Trump is doing so today with rather aggressive tariffs. The accounting of weapons is key in regulating them. All you have to do is imprint a serial number on it and report it.
No thanks, Reggie. I have a Right to keep and Bear arms, period. It’s none of the government’s business, period.
Do I get a free Covid booster when I report my new firearm and seek permission from the government in order to exercise my fundamental rights?
“Shall not be infringed”.
What part of that is confusing?
Oh well. We win some we lose some. This particular loss is not earth-shattering.
Serial numbers weren’t necessary on any firearm until passage of the ’68 “gun control act”, when teddy Kennedy was capped by sirhan-sirhan, using a serialized revolver. If you carefully read the accounts of witnesses his murder is on par with Pres Kennedy; he was removed. And this new regulation still won’t do a thing to stop bad people from doing bad things. We need to trim the ATF to AT like it used to be.
Robert Kenedy, Not Teddy.
Why exactly do we need an ATF in the first place? Laws are laws. Why do we need an entire federal bureaucracy dedicated to Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms? Couldn’t the state agencies do that work, especially now that they’re networked together as well as they are? Then there’s the issue of immunity. Federal agents can wrongfully and illegally rob, injure or kill a U.S. citizen, but are protected from the negative consequences of those actions.
The State of Alaska has specific statutes which authorize manufacture of firearms anywhere. There is absolutely nothing in the US Constitution that enables the federal government to enforce any federal law in Alaska which in any way infringes upon those Alaska statutes. Gun control interest groups and their lobbyists m DC, and in Juneau and other state capitals, claim that the commerce clause allows federal regulation, which is a stretch, but even it that was one day found by the courts to be the case the Alaskan making his/her own guns could do everything with them except sell them in another state.
Ridiculous any machine shop could build a gun in 2 hours, same with the 3D printing. The problem isn’t the guns it’s crime that happens with guns and the American legal system fails to penalize the perpetrator properly. If laws were up held we would have very little crime. Hack the arm off a thief and execute violent offenders and amazingly the crime would stop.
Guns are tangible things that can be controlled. The actions of people can’t.
I do not think I have ever seen a better argument against every restrictive gun control law ever written than what you just posted.
Per your own post, gun free zones are meaningless. Safe storage laws are useless. Red flag laws will accomplish nothing. Even the complete removal of firearms from the entire human race will not make any difference in man’s violence toward each other.
Every single argument you have ever made on MRAK is now invalidated by your own statement.
Let me clarify. Every single argument supporting restrictive gun control laws that you have made on MRAK is not invalid.
Care to try again?
Try what again?
My point is abundantly clear.
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“Guns are tangible things that can be controlled. The actions of people can’t.”
That is a clear admission on your part that restrictive gun control laws are meaningless. You are one of the most strident advocates for restrictive gun control laws, but here you are, openly admitting they will not make a difference in any way.
But then who would cure cancer?
How many people have machine shops?
The operative word in the decision is “readily” No reasonable definition of the word readily includes owning a machine shop.
Sooo….what? When this fails to work, what will you propose? Restricting ownership of machine shops and milling equipment to individuals who possess the appropriate licenses?
Please find where in the Constitution it mentions “ghost guns”. However, I CAN find the words “… shall not be infringed” in there. Amazing how liberal an alleged “conservative” court can be! Next step: Will Trump enforce it? Or does he think SCOTUS rulings are mandatory?
Oh stop you’re stupid whining everybody. You’ve already got many more guns than you’ll ever need. And like you were planning to buy a 3-D printer, the required resin spools, a computer with CAD software, the download files, the additional components needed, and then put the clunky thing together. Why do this when you can just walk up to any gun store and buy something that’s much better built, sturdier, and much more finely machined? You’re protesting over nothing. You don’t like the ruling simply because it’s a minuscule infringement on gun rights.
People would be more sympathetic to your arguments if you weren’t always so extreme. But when you sound crazy, as you do here, people turn off. So deal with it. Hopefully you will lose many more gun rights cases in the future, as they proliferate far too widely in our society.
Whidbey, the reason we sound crazy is because none of us are real. You are the only true poster of the comments section. All the rest of us are just to keep you engaged and clicking on the articles. Sorta like the Truman Show.
Are you enjoying being the current social experiment?
Also, you don’t gotta worry, ghosts can’t really use guns. They are non-corporeal and cannot interact with physical objects. Unless it’s the ghost of Patrick Swayze.
One day Dog, “they” will come after your Rights, and there will be no one to defend you.
The only one coming after our rights right now is your Lord and Savior Donald J Trump. And things in your rearview mirror may be closer than they appear.
Which rights is President Trump coming after?
Please enumerate some of them. Thanks
How marxist of you to think of our safety. /s The only crazy I’m seeing is democrats whining and crying “orange man bad”. “You’ve already got many more guns than you’ll ever need.”- Some people collect baseball cards, coins, spoons, books, etc. Do they have too many..? If you feel there’s too many, move to a place that has none, like the UK. No one is stopping you. Get away from those gun-toting Americans and move to England! But you won’t. You want us to change our life styles to fit yours. Kind of like the purple haired freaks who think they can change genders and demand that we respect them.
Well, you know I’ve actually lived in the UK for many years and there are very few guns there. And those that do exist are very kindly controlled. Consequently, gun crime is exceedingly rare, and there are only a small handful of gun murders every year. It’s living proof that fewer guns make everyone safer. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out either.
Restricting yourself to gun related crime is lying with statistics.
Violent crime in all other forms has risen in the UK every time the restrict guns further.
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Right now, knife control is the big thing. Next it will be blunt object control. And, violent crime will rise every time the government restricts the law abiding.
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If you get less gun related deaths, but deaths from other forms of violence rise, it makes no one safer.
As spoken by someone who knows absolutely nothing about that of which they speak.
Sorry Jack, but exactly what is it that I know absolutely nothing about? If you’re going to insult me, please at least be specific.
And, the reason why people disagree with this ruling apparently is well above your head.
Are you even trying to understand the issues, or do you just pop onto MRAK and post whatever contrary words that spring to you mind?
Perhaps you would think it would be OK for the Federal government to outlaw printed news papers and magazines because you can get the news faster and cheaper on line?
In logic, reductio ad absurdum is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite or extreme scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction.
The intended use of printed news is to inform. The intended use of a gun is to kill.
‘Use’ is the operative word there.
How are those inanimate objects used? If not with the intervention of a human (which you stated clearly above their behavior cannot be controlled), those objects lie there doing NOTHING.
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Intent as you use it here is meaningless. The intent of a motor vehicle is transportation, but it is also really, really good at killing. The intent of kitchen knives is to prepare food for consumption, but they are also really good at killing.
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What is the real problem there, Whidbey? The inanimate object, or the person wielding it? Tell me how many criminals are stopped by a Gun Free Zone sign? How many are stopped by the knowledge murder is illegal?
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Above your statement invalidates any support you have for restrictive gun control laws. If an individual is intent on murder, either one person of dozens, a law making their ownership of the tools they use is going to stop no one. Not a single one.
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But, the laws do place restrictions that violate the 4th, 5th, 6th, and likely the 8th Amendments on the law abiding.
Lots of miniscule infringements add up quickly. Similar to cooking lobsters, you put them in a pot of salty water, the gradually increase the heat………
As for the “Need” argument: Our creator-granted rights are not based on someone’s perception of “Need”. You as an individual don’t “Need” to publicly voice your opinions in comment sections just as you don’t “Need” to attend public gatherings like rallies, political events, social functions, or even attend church. That’s the danger when you sit back and allow someone else with an agenda to determine or dictate what your “Needs” are. Then you cease to be a citizen and become a subject.
80% lowers. Lots of us have lots of ’em.
Molon Labe.
You can legally continue to make your own firearms. The federal government has zero authority as long as your firearm is not part of interstate commerce.
This is more of the insidious creep of constitutional marginalization of the individual freedoms guaranteed under the constitution. The judiciary is no longer performing their primary job, which is to UPHOLD the INDIVIDUAL freedoms guaranteed under the US Constitution. This is judicial socialization, nothing less. And the ban is carefully written to evade proper scrutiny by including the “interstate” provision within it’s text.
Our Bill of Rights that are our fundamental Civil Rights are restrictive clauses against the governments- read the Bill of Rights preamble. AND that amended any and all prior power our Constitution gave to the dirty AF Feds. The ONLY place their BS laws have any force is supposed to be limited to 10 mile strong holds on a State and those are for limited purposes only. The Feds are in contempt of our Constitutional limits against them. Our natural rights don’t come with permission attached to them- they are wrote down to tell the government our Civil Rights are OFF LIMITS and start off with “Congress SHALL MAKE NO LAW ABRIDGING, INFRINGING.. Our State government is weak and the Feds government is out of control.