A majority of justices seemed skeptical of arguments that the Biden administration exceeded its authority in imposing restrictions on ghost guns.
By Justin Jouvenal, The Washington PostGhost guns are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department, in San Francisco, Nov. 27, 2019.
Ghost guns, which have been used in a growing number of crimes over the past decade, are typically assembled at home using parts, kits or pieces printed by 3D printers. Manufacturers say they don’t have to comply with regulations on other guns sold commercially because ghost guns don’t meet the legal definition of a firearm under the nation’s main gun control law and are marketed for hobbyists.
Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar argued the ghost gun rules were consistent with more than 50 years of firearms regulation and said“Our nation has seen an explosion in the crimes committed by ghost guns,” Prelogar said. allowed people barred from owning weapons, such as felons and young people, to purchase them with ease.a new interpretation of the 1968 Gun Control Act, requiring ghost guns be regulated in the same way as other firearms sold commercially.Peter A.
The justices spent much of the oral argument grappling - in sometimes colorful and humorous terms - with when a partly assembled gun may be considered a firearm under the law and how much work qualifies as “readily converted.” Prelogar, arguing on behalf of the Biden administration, said ghost gun kits were analogous to tennis rackets without the strings or bicycles without pedals. Anyone would classify them as guns, she said, even though they were not fully assembled.
“I’m with you on that one, Justice Alito, as someone who struggles with IKEA furniture,” Prelogar joked in response.Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a liberal, seemed to embrace the government’s contention that ghost guns were fit to be regulated under the law, citing ATF letters back to 1978 that used similar language as the new rules. But conservative Justice Clarence Thomas was more skeptical, saying ATF “wasn’t regulating in this way for half a century.
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