Justice Samuel Alito agreed on Friday to temporarily freeze a lower court order that bars the government from regulating socalled ghost guns untraceable homemade weapons as firearms under federal law . 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 . Alito acted alone because he has jurisdiction over the lower court involved in the dispute . In late June Judge Reed OConnor of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas held that the agency had exceeded its authority in promulgating the rule and blocked it nationwide . A federal appeals court declined to put on hold two key challenged provisions of the regulation . A gun rights groups also challenged the rule . The rule requires compliance with federal laws that impose conditions on the commercial sale of firearms to allow law enforcement to trace firearms used in crimes such as the ghost guns . The full Supreme Court will rule by August . The Supreme Court has begun a new term after Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was officially added to the bench in September. The Supreme Justices are yet to announce their decision. The justices have yet to make a final decision on whether they have a decision on the issue. The case. The court has yet to decide whether they will decide whether to issue a decision to issue an opinion. The decision to decide on whether the case. It will be a decision. It has not yet to comment on whether to appeal to the Supreme Court’s decision. Back Back to Back to Mail Online Back to The Back to the Back To The Back To Back To the Back to To The Page Back to
Federal ghost gun regulations temporarily revived by Justice Alito . The case is the result of
