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  1. October 07, 2024

    Justices Set To Review Feds' Suit Over 'Ghost Gun' Exception

    The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Tuesday over whether "ghost gun" assembly kits and their accessories, which are unserialized and untraceable, can be considered firearms and therefore subject to licensing requirements under the Gun Control Act of 1968.

  2. April 22, 2024

    Supreme Court Will Hear Feds' Ghost Guns Ban Appeal

    The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from the federal government seeking to block an injunction excluding two companies from a rule classifying so-called ghost gun kits as firearms.

  3. February 09, 2024

    Feds Ask High Court To Block 'Ghost Gun' Exemption

    The federal government is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and block an injunction exempting two companies that sell so-called ghost guns, which lack serial numbers, from a rule classifying the kits as firearms, saying the Fifth Circuit's current ruling creates a loophole that will result in a "flood" of untraceable weapons in the country.

  4. October 02, 2023

    5th Circ. Backs Ghost Gun Cos., Won't Undo Injunction

    The Fifth Circuit said on Monday that a Biden administration rule on so-called ghost guns, which lack serial numbers, does not apply to two companies appealing the regulations, saying that they should not be forced to go out of business while the regulations are being reviewed and signaling that they will likely prevail in their appeal.

  5. September 28, 2023

    Gun Cos. Say 'Ghost Gun' Injunction Is Within High Court Stay

    Gun manufacturers told the Fifth Circuit Thursday that a lower court had the right to carve out an injunction in favor of certain entities that make "ghost guns," arguing that a U.S. Supreme Court stay allowing a Biden administration rule regarding the weapons to remain in effect during appellate proceedings didn't include language that would prevent it.

  6. September 20, 2023

    ATF Says Texas Judge's 'Ghost Gun' Ruling Defies High Court

    The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Tuesday told the Fifth Circuit that a lower court's "extraordinary injunction" earlier this month barring the government from enforcing "ghost gun" regulations must be thrown out as it violates fundamental doctrines of the American legal system.

  7. September 07, 2023

    ATF Overreached With Ghost Guns, 5th Circ. Told

    A Texas federal court did not misstep in striking down a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rule on ghost guns because the agency overstepped its authority in its definition of firearms, counsel for gun groups told an en banc Fifth Circuit on Thursday.

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