M14 Shooter
The Light of Truth
Case: Garland v. VanDerStok
Text of oral arguments: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2024/23-852_ca7d.pdf
Subject of case: The 2022 ATF interpretation of the Gun Control Act of 1968 with respect to 'ghost gun' kits -- package of parts that allow the creation of an unserialized firearms -- the ATF holds that such kits are, themselves, firearms, and if for sale, must be serialized and then sold like any other firearm, including a background check.
Most people do not understand the issue here -specifically, what a "ghost gun kit" is and how it "works".
I shall explain:
In general, with a 'ghost gun' kit, you get these, or similar, parts:
You also get a part similar to this:
What do you have when you put them together?
Nothing.
In fact, you --can't-- put them all together.
And so, unarguably, you do not have a firearm.
But the ATF wants to -call- it a firearm and -regulate- it like a firearm.
Even though you cannot put the parts together, and you cannot shoot anything through it.
This is an obvious case of ATF overreach, and will be struck for the same reasons as the court struck the bump-stock ban --- Congress can, and did, define the terms it used in its legislation and the ATS does not get to change those definitions to suit its purposes.
Text of oral arguments: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2024/23-852_ca7d.pdf
Subject of case: The 2022 ATF interpretation of the Gun Control Act of 1968 with respect to 'ghost gun' kits -- package of parts that allow the creation of an unserialized firearms -- the ATF holds that such kits are, themselves, firearms, and if for sale, must be serialized and then sold like any other firearm, including a background check.
Most people do not understand the issue here -specifically, what a "ghost gun kit" is and how it "works".
I shall explain:
In general, with a 'ghost gun' kit, you get these, or similar, parts:
You also get a part similar to this:
What do you have when you put them together?
Nothing.
In fact, you --can't-- put them all together.
And so, unarguably, you do not have a firearm.
But the ATF wants to -call- it a firearm and -regulate- it like a firearm.
Even though you cannot put the parts together, and you cannot shoot anything through it.
This is an obvious case of ATF overreach, and will be struck for the same reasons as the court struck the bump-stock ban --- Congress can, and did, define the terms it used in its legislation and the ATS does not get to change those definitions to suit its purposes.
