JUST IN: The Supreme Court has voted 5-4 to revive federal regulation of homemade, untraceable 'ghost guns,' freezing a previous ruling while challenges play out
The brief order grants the Biden administration’s request to allow the regulations to remain in effect while legal challenges play out. Ghost guns are kits that a user can buy online to assemble a fully functional firearm. They have no serial numbers, do not require background checks and provide no transfer records for easy traceability. Critics say they are attractive to people who are legally prohibited from buying firearms. The vote was 5-4.
In the emergency filing with the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar warned the justices that over the last several years “police departments around the Nation have confronted an explosion of crimes involving ghost guns.
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