TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Aug 23, 2023

A federal appeals court yesterday rejected a bid by gun rights advocates to block the Biden administration from enforcing new regulations aimed at privately made firearms known as "ghost guns," reports Reuters. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that gun rights organizations and 16 Republican state attorneys general who joined the suit had not established they would be irreparably harmed by the rule, which went into effect in August 2022. The rule updated the definition of a "firearm," "frame" and "receiver" under the Gun Control Act of 1968 to address the rise of ghost guns which can be assembled from kits and purchased online without a background check.