{"id":112047,"date":"2024-10-09T05:54:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T22:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112047"},"modified":"2024-10-09T05:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T22:54:50","slug":"supreme-court-majority-may-embrace-atfs-ghost-gun-rule-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112047","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court majority may embrace ATF&#8217;s \u201cghost gun\u201d rule : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-26997\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 1024;&#10;        --source-height: 683;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1024x683+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F52%2F7e%2F3e72fadc48bf8a388199226411ae%2Fgettyimages-2176485427.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1024x683+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F52%2F7e%2F3e72fadc48bf8a388199226411ae%2Fgettyimages-2176485427.jpg\" data-format=\"webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1024x683+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F52%2F7e%2F3e72fadc48bf8a388199226411ae%2Fgettyimages-2176485427.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1024x683+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F52%2F7e%2F3e72fadc48bf8a388199226411ae%2Fgettyimages-2176485427.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1024x683+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F52%2F7e%2F3e72fadc48bf8a388199226411ae%2Fgettyimages-2176485427.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"The U.S. Supreme Court seemed inclined Tuesday to side with the government in a case brought by gun kit manufacturers who say the ATF exceeded its authority by classifying the kits as guns.\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1024x683+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F52%2F7e%2F3e72fadc48bf8a388199226411ae%2Fgettyimages-2176485427.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                The U.S. Supreme Court seemed inclined Tuesday to side with the government in a case brought by gun kit manufacturers who say the ATF exceeded its authority by classifying the kits as guns.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The conservative Supreme Court, largely hostile to gun regulations in recent years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/10\/08\/nx-s1-5106803\/supreme-court-ghost-guns\">seemed tentatively supportive<\/a> of the Biden administration\u2019s effort to curb \u201cghost guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These build-it-yourself gun kits can be bought online and anonymously, without a background check. The guns from these kits have also have no serial numbers, meaning they cannot be traced. In 2022, as the number of ghost guns found at crime scenes was growing exponentially, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued a new rule classifying the kits as firearms under the 1968 Gun Control Act. The statute defines a firearm as any weapon that is \u201cdesigned to or may readily be converted into\u201d a functional firearm. The kit manufacturers and sellers challenged the rule in court, asserting that the ATF had exceeded its authority. The conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck the rule down.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Biden administration appealed to the Supreme Court, and last year the court voted 5-to-4 to leave the regulation in place while it reviewed the case. On Tuesday a majority of the justices seemed to think the gun-kit sellers were on pretty shaky ground.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">&#8216;A sea change&#8217; in the law<\/h3>\n<p>Arguing in support of the regulation, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said that if the manufacturers and sellers of these kits prevail, it would work \u201ca sea change\u201d in the nation\u2019s firearm laws. Under the kit sellers argument, \u201cif a firearm isn&#8217;t a 100% functional, if its missing just one hole that could be drilled in seconds and immediately assembled into a working gun, that product can be sold to anyone online with no background check, no records, and no serial number,\u201d said Prelogar.<\/p>\n<p>Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh all expressed some skepticism about that argument. The four were the likely dissenters when the court allowed the ghost gun regulation to remain in effect.<\/p>\n<p>Alito focused on the definition of a weapon, and when it is considered just a part. Holding up a yellow legal pad and a pen, he asked: \u201cIs this a grocery list?\u201d Solicitor General Prelogar replied that it was not, since \u201cthere are a lot of other things you could use [the pad for] for to create something other than a grocery list.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Justice Amy Coney Barrett chimed in, asking Prelogar if her answer would change if she were to order a kit to make turkey chili from HelloFresh with \u201call of the ingredients in the kit.\u201d Prelogar saw this as \u201cthe more apt analogy\u201d because much like a gun kit, where the purpose is to build a gun, the purpose of that kit would be to make chili.<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh said his main concern was whether a kit seller who didn\u2019t know he was violating the law would he be prosecuted. Prelogar responded that the U.S. criminal code requires \u201cwillfulness\u201d in order to bring a criminal charge and that any manufacturer or seller who has doubts is able to get a dispositive ruling from the ATF as to whether the gun or gun kit is legal.<\/p>\n<p>But Kavanaugh was still concerned, asking, \u201cIf you haven\u2019t done that,\u201d referring to receiving a dispositive ruling from the ATF, \u201cand you truly believe you\u2019re not violating the law, could you be charged under that provision? Is that something the government would do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the government would be likely to charge someone in that situation,\u201d responded Prelogar. She also asserted that Justice Kavanaugh\u2019s hypothetical gun manufacturer is nothing like what is happening in reality, where the gun kit sellers are intentionally trying to circumvent a regulation while advertising their products as \u201cridiculously easy to assemble\u201d and a way to have a \u201cfully functional gun in as little as 15 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning to a broader question, Justice Elena Kagan noted that sometimes \u201cthere\u2019s an old statute that didn\u2019t contemplate a new problem,\u201d and in those situations, when \u201cCongress can\u2019t get its act together,\u201d an agency takes old statutory language that doesn\u2019t really fit the problem but tries to make it fit. Kagan asked Prelogar if that \u201cis a storyline\u201d that the kit sellers \u201ccan tell about this regulation?\u201d<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-third-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap third\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cNo\u201d, replied Prelogar. Gun manufacturers trying to evade gun regulations is \u201can age-old problem\u201d that Congress was trying to fix, so they wrote a statute designed to deal with that problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s really notable,\u201d she said, \u201cthat none of the major gun manufacturers is suing us about this rule, and the reason for that is because they have abided by the \u2018readily converted\u2019 standard for more than 50 years, since the Gun Control Act became law.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">Proposed standard for the kits<\/h3>\n<p>Following Prelogar to the lectern was lawyer Pete Patterson, representing the kit sellers.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that just because the kit buyer only has to drill a hole or holes in the frame or receiver part of the gun, that doesn\u2019t convert it into weapon that can be regulated by the government. Rather, he said, the standard should be whether critical machining was necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Barrett appeared skeptical of Patterson\u2019s proposed standard, pointing out that \u201cit doesn\u2019t appear in statute\u201d and that \u201cit seems a little made up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts, who was quiet throughout Prelogar\u2019s argument, weighed in on the debate about whether these guns are used by hobbyists or by individuals who could not legally buy a gun. When Patterson compared building these gun kits to how \u201csome individuals enjoy working on their car every weekend,\u201d Roberts responded caustically, that just \u201cdrilling a hole or two doesn\u2019t give the same sort of reward that you get from working on your car on the weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A decision is expected later this term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/10\/08\/nx-s1-5145914\/supreme-court-ghost-guns\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court seemed inclined Tuesday to side with the government in a case brought by gun kit manufacturers who say the ATF exceeded its authority by classifying the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112047\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}