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Eugene

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Mon Oct 16, 2023, 04:18 PM Oct 2023

The Supreme Court orders makers of gun parts to comply with rules on ghost guns

Source: Associated Press

The Supreme Court orders makers of gun parts to comply with rules on ghost guns

Updated 4:41 PM EDT, October 16, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday ordered two internet sellers of gun parts to comply with a Biden administration regulation aimed at ghost guns, firearms that are difficult to trace because they lack serial numbers.

The court had intervened once before, by a 5-4 vote in August, to keep the regulation in effect after it had been invalidated by a lower court. No justice dissented publicly from Monday’s order, which followed a ruling from a federal judge in Texas that exempted the two companies, Blackhawk Manufacturing Group and Defense Distributed, from having to abide by the regulation of ghost gun kits.

Other makers of gun parts also had been seeking similar court orders, the administration told the Supreme Court in a filing.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ghost-guns-biden-administration-c619b0212be94de9ff043e3a0040b1da

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The Supreme Court orders makers of gun parts to comply with rules on ghost guns (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2023 OP
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