#SCOTUS on Mon once again reinstated the #Biden admin’s #regulations on “#GhostGuns,” #firearms assembled from kits w/o serial numbers or #BackgroundChecks on purchasers.
The admin’s regs, which apply to self-made weapons the same kind of licensing & records required of #guns sold commercially, will remain in place while #legal battles continue.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/16/ghost-guns-supreme-court-oconnor-biden/
There were no noted dissents in the unsigned order, which was necessary because of contrary rulings from lower courts.
In August, #SCOTUS on a 5-4 vote allowed the #Biden admin’s regs to stay in effect. But after the order was issued, US District Judge Reed O’Connor of #Texas again stepped in to block the regulations as applied to 2 manufacturers who supply a large number of the #GhostGun kits sold nationwide.
(& HIV prevention drugs saying it made "them complicit in facilitating homosexual behavior, drug use, & sexual activity outside of marriage between one man & one woman."
(Basically #ReedOConnor’s a total POS.)
His #GhostGuns ruling was largely upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (widely considered the most conservative appeals court).
The #Biden admin told #SCOTUS the lower courts had “flouted” its August order, & again asked the justices to intervene.
“The district court and the Fifth Circuit have effectively countermanded this Court’s authoritative determination about the status quo that should prevail” while legal challenges cont, Solicitor General Elizabeth B. #Prelogar said in a filing. She added: “The Court should not tolerate that affront to basic principles” of #JudicialReview.
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