Ghost guns, which lack serial numbers, have been turning up at crime scenes with increasing regularity.
FILE - "Ghost guns" are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department, Nov. 27, 2019, in San Francisco. The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation ofThe justices by a 5-4 vote had previously intervened to keep the regulation in effect during the legal fight.
The requirement applies regardless of how the firearm was made, meaning it includes ghost guns made from individual parts or kits or by 3D printers. The rule does not prohibit people from buying a kit or any type of firearm. U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, in Fort Worth, Texas, struck down the rule last year, concluding that it exceeded the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' authority. O'Connor wrote that the definition of a firearm in federal law does not cover all the parts of a gun. Congress could change the law, he wrote.
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