Posted on 04/22/2024 5:49:51 PM PDT by CFW
Though still far behind the number of cases granted for the next term this time last year, the court on Monday added two new cases to its docket for the 2024-2025 term. The justices agreed to weigh in on a challenge to a rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives regulating so-called “ghost guns” – firearms without serial numbers that virtually anyone can assemble from parts, often purchased in a kit. Garland v. VanDerStok was one of two cases granted on Monday on a list of orders from the justices’ private conference last week.
The dispute over the “ghost guns” rule is one with which the justices were already familiar. Last June, a federal district judge in Fort Worth, Texas, barred the ATF from enforcing the rule anywhere in the United States. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor agreed with manufacturers and sellers of ghost gun kits and parts that applying the rule to ghost guns was inconsistent with federal firearms laws. When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which hears appeals from federal trial courts in Texas, declined to put O’Connor’s ruling on hold, the Biden administration came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to step in.
By a vote of 5-4, the justices in early August allowed the Biden administration to temporarily reinstate the rule while the challenge to it continued in the lower courts. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh all indicated that they would have denied the government’s request and allowed the rule to remain on hold.
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Do you know who else made their own guns? Nor put a serial number on them? **The founding fathers and our revolutionary war soldiers ***. None of their Jager rifles or Pennsylvania rifles had serial numbers. Most were made by hand by the man himself, or a local craftsman.
Also, there is a silly fantasy that the cop will find a gun on the ground, run the serial number and know who the killer is. In reality, that only does two things, the cop finds out who the gun was stolen from, and they generate a chain of custody from who bought the gun knew until it got somewhere else. Nothing comes of it.
The only other thing they’ve used it for is picking them up at the scene of cartel gun battles and tracing them back to the fast and furious ATF gun store in the United States to try to discredit American gun owners.
“Also, there is a silly fantasy that the cop will find a gun on the ground, run the serial number and know who the killer is”
Yeah, that narrative was introduced by Hollywood (probably at the behest of the government—even back decades ago). I believe it was done in order to push the belief that every gun is registered or should be. If you go back and look at old shows such as Dragnet, they immediately track the murder weapon to the owner because all guns are registered.
Leftists: If it’s a gun we’re against it.
“...shall not be infringed...”
all these lawyers can GTH!
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The firearm registry is an important tool to gradually, over time, reduce the number of legal gun owners and legal guns, until they are no longer a politically viable force.
Wait until they realize open borders don’t stop “ghost guns”.
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