SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Ghost Gun Rule - Garland v. Vanderstok

[pshift]

Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Biden ‘Ghost Gun’ Rule

The high court previously reversed lower court orders blocking the regulation of guns that can be assembled at home.

www.theepochtimes.com

No justices dissented to hear the rule. Is there a light or a train at the end of the tunnel?

 

[Saltwater60]

I’m feeling hopeful today so I said light. If they go off their ruling of history text and tradition they can’t say no. People made guns at home all throughout and so did their buddies for them. I’m going with 5-4 in favor with some restrictions like you can’t sell them.

 

[kev74]

I'm an optimist, so I voted light.

If it's a light on a train, I'm still right!

If it's the Trump Train, we all win.

 

[spat]

I’m feeling hopeful today so I said light. If they go off their ruling of history text and tradition they can’t say no. People made guns at home all throughout and so did their buddies for them. I’m going with 5-4 in favor with some restrictions like you can’t sell them.

Since all guns were ghost guns up until the 1960s, it would be very hard to "history, text, and tradition" your way into outlawing them.

 

[Tisto]

I have to think it will be a 5-4 decision in our favor, simply because a gun can be made out of common parts found in every hardware store. They can't consider pipe fittings not to be "guns" and at the same time call a solid hunk of aluminum that is externally shaped but requires precise and somewhat extensive machining inside to be a gun.

The liberal justices don't even have to read the case. Their minds are already made up. We know which way they're going to rule.

 

[Beerman]

It’s a light rail commuter line, so I choose both. There will be some good, some bad, and no matter what you’ll end up sitting next to some sweaty stank ass under-housed, economically underrepresented, recently incarcerated individual that constantly talks out loud to himself.

 

[96coal449]

Odds should be in the peoples favor. Hell, we all know what the law of the land says.
All in all, I'm not getting my hopes up. If I do they'll get squashed. If I don't, I won't be let down.

Going with other.....whatever that may be.

 

[spat]

Odds should be in the peoples favor. Hell, we all know what the law of the land says.
All in all, I'm not getting my hopes up. If I do they'll get squashed. If I don't, I won't be let down.

Going with other.....whatever that may be.

My bet is SCOTUS rules 5-4 that ghost guns can't be banned, and NY, CA, etc... keep their ban on them anyway.

 

[Acer-m14]

I’m going with 5-4 in favor with some restrictions like you can’t sell them.

i think that's how it used to be ..

you could make your own gun for yourself then after a year or so

well i don't like it now and want to sell it .. you couldnt just make and sell them ..

all you had to do was serialize it and/or put your name on it ..


SCOTUS will screw it up again ...

 

[Cavalry]

Since all guns were ghost guns up until the 1960s, it would be very hard to "history, text, and tradition" your way into outlawing them.

Kinda. GCA'68 mandated that there be a serial number. Many manufacturers had been serializing for decades before it was mandated.

 

[prambo]

 

[Cavalry]

I look forward to a court win in our favor followed by the tyrants of NY doubling down on "ghost gun" laws.

 

[VietnamEraVet]

I look forward to a court win in our favor followed by the tyrants of NY doubling down on "ghost gun" laws.

I expect we may get a win to some degree from SCOTUS, followed immediately by a bunch of traitorous RINO's in the House and Senate selling us out. And the anti's to keep screaming, and the anti 2A states to keep infringing.

 

[Saltwater60]

i think that's how it used to be ..

you could make your own gun for yourself then after a year or so

well i don't like it now and want to sell it .. you couldnt just make and sell them ..

all you had to do was serialize it and/or put your name on it ..


SCOTUS will screw it up again ...

Yes, you’re correct. My with restrictions like you can’t sell them was more in reference to the history, text, and tradition. Way back when there were no background checks and you went to your local gunsmith who wasn’t regulated and bought whatever you wanted. You and a buddy could make them and hand them out. I think we will be billowed to make our own for personal use but not sell them or pass them out on the corner like it was 1775.

 

[spat]

Kinda. GCA'68 mandated that there be a serial number. Many manufacturers had been serializing for decades before it was mandated.

But tracing a serial number to a consumer was basically impossible.

 

[Cavalry]

But tracing a serial number to a consumer was basically impossible.

You mean the first purchaser. At a federal level (as designed with no illegal database) its a pretty terrible system for tracking anything.

 

[spat]

You mean the first purchaser. At a federal level (as designed with no illegal database) its a pretty terrible system for tracking anything.

Terrible now, but possible.

Before 4473's and bound books, it was effectively impossible.

You might as well try to track steak knives.

 

[Saltwater60]

Terrible now, but possible.

Before 4473's and bound books, it was effectively impossible.

You might as well try to track steak knives.

They find out who bought the gun for mass shootings in hours at most so that should tell you something

 

[spat]

They find out who bought the gun for mass shootings in hours at most so that should tell you something

That's how it works now. In 1960 they didn't have a prayer.

They had to pick up the gun at the crime scene and start interviewing people who knew the perp.

"Do you know where he got this ?"

How did they find out Oswald mail ordered that Carcano ? Probably not until they searched his place and found a receipt.

 

[kev74]

Now, in 1960 they didn't have a prayer.

They had to pick up the gun at the crime scene and start interviewing people who knew the perp.

"Do you know where he got this ?"

How did they find out Oswald mail ordered that Carcano ? Probably not until they searched his place and found a receipt.

It doesn't matter how the criminal got the gun. The victim has been harmed regardless if the gun was serialized or not.

Criminals steal guns. They make guns. They even buy guns legally before they get caught.

This whole "ghost gun" debate only serves to take the attention from the criminal to the object.

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

My guess is any manufacturer will have to serialize everything, comply with ITAR, and file/pay FAET if a "ghost gun" is ever transferred to a new owner.

 

[John Stark]

Justices take up “ghost guns” case for next term

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.

www.scotusblog.com

"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.

The 5th Circuit heard oral argument in the case in early September and issued it in early November. It upheld O’Connor’s decision, concluding that the rule “flouts clear statutory text and exceeds the legislatively-imposed limits on agency authority in the name of public policy.”

My take is that the ATF and Xiden are going to lose this, and ghost guns will be back on the menu, as they do not meet the definition of "firearm" that the ATF has played fast and loose with. They won't be able to stop manufacturers from selling 80%, they won't be able to force anyone to put a serial number on their privately made weapons, and they won't be able to force anyone to go through a NICS check to buy parts to make their own Arms.

And if that happens, why in hell would anyone buy another weapon through the FedGov NICS registration system rather than just make their own? At least in terms of ARs and modern pistols?

Of course, if we could just get one competent gun rights group to directly attack the 1934 NFA, the GCA of 1968, and the Brady Bill of 1991 (rather than fucking around with all of these other cases that keep us begging for permission slips), the worst Infringements would be struck down under Heller and McDonald and we could move on to get rid of the rest of the schemes that have been set up against our God-given and Natural Rights.

As always, there is always the chance that the SUPREMES will betray us (cough Roberts cough) and let this bullshit stand, but I think by letting it play out in the lower courts where ATF lost over and over again, and letting the Xiden regime the chance to appeal to the SCOTUS, this baby is likely to be properly put to bed.

The definition of "firearm" is very precise and goes back many decades, and the ATF has been lying their ass off about that to keep this shitshow going. Not that I think ANY definition of Arms should have any merit when it comes to what we can Keep and Bear, but only to make the point that the ATF hung their shingle on that definition for well over half a century, and its obvious their recent deceptions surrounding the matter are flat out wrong and nothing more than a weak ploy that doesn't pass muster even prima facie.

 

[96coal449]

My bet is SCOTUS rules 5-4 that ghost guns can't be banned, and NY, CA, etc... keep their ban on them anyway.

Oh....so your saying the govs role of keeping a united states is a fail?

Color me surprised.

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg puts YouTube on notice for online ghost gun tutorials

Bragg said the site’s algorithm has persistently pushed ghost gun content despite warnings by gun safety groups in recent years, often in violation of their own community guidelines.

www.nydailynews.com

 

[Cavalry]

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg puts YouTube on notice for online ghost gun tutorials

Bragg said the site’s algorithm has persistently pushed ghost gun content despite warnings by gun safety groups in recent years, often in violation of their own community guidelines.

www.nydailynews.com

Building is already against the TOS. I guess they want to make it more against the rules? This is why PSR, Serbu, 3D Print Gen, etc, have been demonetized, banned, removed or terminated. I am sure there are ones that slip under the radar, but then again there is porn on 'tube if you know how to look.

 

[Zerex]

Like pig sty Bragg, the pizza gobbling "jerk".........he soon will be Chris Christie+......... Communists have no desire, but to disarm everyone so that no armed resistance will stop...................REPARATIONS.

BLM does not believe it will have to face the Genocidal CCP..their current" friends".

Ghost guns WERE legal and are LEGAL YET IN MOST STATES....for personal use....and that is what we want............

 

[Saltwater60]

So how is YouTube marketing this to underage people? I’m sure all the other illegal activity that YouTube hosts is fine as long as it’s violence against, cops, whites, republicans and others the left hates. I’m sure all the death to Israel content is satisfactory to them too

 

[Cavalry]

Bringing this to the top, arguments begin tomorrow.

 

[Zerex]

The 2nd was written to control government, not to allow the Govt to control Militias.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, except by Auntie, Hochul, Biden, Harris, the Squad, Muslims, and all illegals, and many others who want your shit.

 

[VietnamEraVet]

Live argument beginning at 10AM this morning.

Here is a link: Live Oral Argument Audio