Washington – On Wednesday, the Supreme Court approved a federal ban on the sale of parts kits that allowed unlicensed weapons to make firearms that cannot be traced by the police at home.
In a 7-2 decision, justice, called “ghost weapons ,, accepted homemade weapons, and was described as firearms under the Federal Laws.
“Today, thousands of law enforcement force throughout the country [federal] Monitoring the system to connect firearms to the owners of crimes. ”
Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito opposed.
In 2022, the decision supports an arrangement that was strongly supported by the Biden administration by the police and prosecutors.
The decision is overthrowing the conservative judges who say that the Congress in Texas does not give federal regulators the authority to prohibit the “piece kits” that can be turned into a weapon.
A rare gain for arms control advocates in the high court.
“This Supreme Court Decision is a great news for everyone, the criminals who accept the weapons they have chosen,” said John Feinblatt, President of Everytown for gun safety. “Ghost weapons look like normal weapons, shoot like normal weapons and kill like normal weapons – so it makes sense to confirm that the Supreme Court can be arranged like normal weapons.”
Last year, the conservative majority of the court prevented an arrangement supported by both Trump and Biden administrations, which allowed semi -automatic weapons to fire rapidly like a machine gun. Justice, with 6-3 votes, said that these devices did not comply with the definition of a machine gun determined by the congress.
However, the court said on Wednesday that a firearm of the 1968 Law of the 1968 arms control was extensively described as “any weapon … to expel a bullet with an explosive’s action or can be easily converted.”
Both cases did not directly involve the 2nd amendment and protection of arms rights.
The Los Angeles Police Department and other police organizations have alarmed on the increasing threat of weapons that could be purchased as an online kit.
Three years ago, LAPD said, “The ghost weapons are not only in Los Angeles but in the country.
The Ministry of Justice under Biden told the court that local law enforcement officers seized more than 19,000 ghost weapons in the crime scene in 2021 and that there was an increase of more than ten times in four years.
While calling for the court to protect the ban, the lawyer Gen. Elizabeth Prelogar argued that postal order weapons kits can “effectively invalidate arms, which allow the police to monitor weapons used in crimes,” effectively invalid “.
Without new arrangements adopted by alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives office or ATF, “Anyone can buy an online kit and create a completely functional pistol in minutes – background control, records or serial number does not require.”
California has already banned the sale of these parts kits, but Atty. General Rob Bonda said that the federal ban was necessary to force the ban on sending these kits by mail.
Although California has tried to block non -serialized weapons since 2016, these weapons have made up about 30% of all weapons healed by the ATF.
Meanwhile, he said that the number of non -serialized weapons recovered by the California law enforcement officers rose from 167 to 2022 in 2016 to 12,900.
However, the conservative 5th circuit court in New Orleans was not affected by the warnings given by the police departments. He hit the Atf regulation and decided that a “piece of weapons kit kit was not a firearm, even if it could be brought together.
The Supreme Court took the 5th circuit decision last year and voted to hear the government’s appeal. Bondi and VanderStok case.
