Biden to take action on ghost guns.

[mikegriffith1]

It's disappointing, and a bit troubling, that Biden keeps repeating the myth that private citizens could not buy canons in early America. Even the Washington Post and PolitiFact have acknowledged that Biden is wrong on this point. Anyone who's done much reading on 18th- and 19th-century American history knows that private citizens in those periods most certainly could by canons.

 

[Ranb]

Supreme Court signals it may uphold Biden’s regulations on ‘ghost gun’ kits
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/supreme-court-ghost-guns/index.html

The Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled a willingness to uphold a Biden administration regulation on “ghost guns,” mail-order kits that allow people to build untraceable weapons at home and that are turning up at crime scenes with greater frequency.

Peter Patterson, representing the manufacturers and groups that challenged the regulation, said that building the kits is far more complicated than the administration has suggested. In briefing, supporters of the regulation say that most Americans would view a bicycle as a bicycle, even if its pedals were missing. A build-at-home couch from Ikea, they argue, is still a couch before it is assembled.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Makes sense, since the US military doesn't use AR-15s, doesn't build the rifles it uses, and wouldn't do it as a "team-building exercise" (not least because pretty much everything else they do is already a kind of team building exercise).

Making their own weapon could be the last stage of training. Like becoming a Jedi Knight...

ETA: Sorry, hadn't spotted how old the thread was.