Supreme Court takes up ATF’s unilateral ‘ghost gun’ rules

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Supreme Court takes up ATF’s unilateral ‘ghost gun’ rules

Can the government regulate objects that resemble unfinished firearm parts as if they are guns because, with tools and effort, they might be turned into working components? More specifically, can a federal agency start doing that via a reinterpretation of the law, and threaten noncompliant people with prosecution on its own initiative, without an act of Congress? The Supreme Court has now agreed to weigh in on those issues after lower courts rej…