Justices reverse federal judge’s order that allowed manufacturers to sell unregulated kits that convert into firearms

The US Supreme Court on Monday barred two Texas-based manufacturers from selling products that can be quickly converted at home into firearms called “ghost guns”, granting a request by Joe Biden’s administration to once again block a federal judge’s order that had sided with companies.

The justices lifted Fort Worth-based judge Reed O’Connor’s 14 September injunction barring enforcement of a 2022 federal regulation – a rule aimed at reining in the privately made firearms – against the two manufacturers, Blackhawk Manufacturing and Defense Distributed.

  • @Capricorny90210English
    1•8 months ago

    1. They can sell parts of a firearm, for instance something like an 80% lower, that may not be regulated the same way as an assembled firearm. They can also sell files if they wished, to print or mill firearm parts.

    2. Still depends on UK laws, sorry I’m not familiar with them past (at least I think) the full ban of handguns.

    • 520
      5•8 months ago

      So for UK firearms, you are allowed them for very specific purposes and can’t ever use it outside of those purposes. You have to make your case and get a license before you can buy a gun more powerful than an air rifle/pistol. You can’t carry in public, even concealed.

      UK law doesn’t recognise the concept of defensive weapons, so if you use one, even in self defense, and you don’t have any legal context for carrying the gun in the first place, you’re fuuuuucked.