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.

  • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
    114·
    9 months ago

    I really thought American learned that banning things just makes a black market.

    • Audrey0nne@leminal.space
      81·
      9 months ago

      They did, it creates lucrative and profitable enterprises which is why they keep doing it. Oh wait did you mean this as a bad thing? lol

      • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
        61·
        9 months ago

        Guess I’ll see you again when they catch a dude printing Glock switches and ar lowers 🙄

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      57·
      9 months ago

      Meh they’re not banning firearms just this one method of making them and this market is already somewhat of a black market considering they’re trying to skirt around the laws of the regulated traditional market.

      • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
        45·
        9 months ago

        If they prevent these kits from being sold people are just going to get them further outside legal means to get them. Punishing someone harder for the same crime doesn’t fix the issue. It just makes people bitter.

        Hell “ghost guns” aren’t even the issue. Allowing charlatans to have whole news stations with no regulations besides being sued is probably the real issue but we’ll sooner solve that issue then the gun violence issue.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
          33·
          9 months ago

          That’s how laws work. They make something illegal. You have to break the law to do it. You get punished.

          Nobody thinks outlawing something will completely end it. But it will make it duck back into its hole and sometimes that the best we can do.