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Supreme Court Issues Ruling on ‘Ghost Guns’ | Facts Matter

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Supreme Court Issues Ruling on ‘Ghost Guns’ | Facts Matter

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In a split 7 to 2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a bit of, you can say, unusual ruling in regards to ghost guns.

0:08.8

Specifically, this new decision from the court, it upheld a Biden-era rule regulating which guns can and cannot be built at home.

0:17.4

However, in order to understand the significance of this decision, and what it means moving forward to anyone watching this program who wants to print guns at home. However, in order to understand the significance of this decision and what it means

0:21.1

moving forward to anyone watching this program who wants to print guns at home, we need

0:25.4

to break down exactly what this case was about. In case you don't know what a goes gun

0:29.8

is, a goes gun is a pejorative term used by gun control advocates in order to describe homemade

0:36.3

guns which don't have a serial number on

0:38.3

them and therefore cannot be tracked by the police. Now these ghost guns can for the most part

0:43.3

be 3D printed at someone's home. All they need is a 3D printer as well as the blueprint

0:48.9

schematics which can all be found online for free. However, there are several parts of the gun that cannot be

0:55.9

3D printed. Here's, for instance, how the whole process is described in an article within the

1:01.0

Trace publication. Quote, 3D printed guns vary a lot. Some models, like the 3D printed gun

1:07.4

company Defense Distributed Liberator, can be made almost entirely on a 3D printer.

1:12.7

Others require many additional parts, which are often metal. For example, many 3D printed gun

1:17.8

blueprints focus on a weapon's lower receiver, which is basically the chassees of a firearm.

1:22.9

Under federal law, it's the only gun part that requires a federal background check to purchase from a licensed

1:28.2

dealer. To subvert regulators, some people print lower receivers at home and finish their guns

1:33.2

using parts that can be purchased without a background check. Metal barrels, for example, or factory

1:37.5

buttstocks. Many gun retailers sell kits, which include all the components necessary to assemble

1:42.3

a gun at home. Now, in practice, visually, here's what these kits look like.

1:46.4

It's pretty much everything you need except for the lower receiver.

1:49.5

And so basically, you would just purchase that kit, you would print the lower receiver,

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