"Ghost Gun" Ban Upheld

[eddiememphis]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/26/ghost-guns-supreme-court-ruling/
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5341404/supreme-court-ghost-guns

In a 7-2 decision written by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, the justices allowed 2022 rules from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that require serial numbers, sales receipts and background checks for the weapons, which are typically purchased online as kits that let the buyer complete assembly at home. Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas dissented in separate opinions.

Writing for the court majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch said that under the broad language of the 1968 Gun Control Act, the ATF was well within its authority in requiring those who make or sell gun kits to mark their products with serial numbers, keep records of their sales, and conduct background checks on buyers.

[Sawin]

No real surprise there, but thanks for sharing.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I thought this was more on a ‘paper work’ issue with ATFs ability to make rules, not on a pure 2A defense of the right to make guns?

[Eric P]

How many years of history and tradition before the silly 1968 law? It needs to be done away with. Zero reason for government to ve able to easily track tools of a constitutionally protected right. Imagine if every communication devices required a government mandated serial number and permission to purchase such tool...

Fvck all gun laws past the 2A.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I’ve seen the ‘plan’ that we need to take down gun laws in a specific order to be successful in the courts, with the 68 GCA one of the last ones- for some reason, I forget.

The problem is that they keep adding new laws, and adding more rungs to the ladder to climb out of the hole we are in.

What we need are short and tight (but broad) rulings from SCOTUS with out weasel words like ‘societal changes’ that seem to haunt us that every win is actually used as a step back.

Infuriating.