What legal challenges have been made to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) rule to include ghost guns under the same category of regulation as any other firearm?
In 2022 a lawsuit was filed against the ATF rule by Texas firearm owners and gun rights groups. The rule was blocked by a district judge, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, but the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the rule to remain in place pending the results of a full hearing in October 2024.
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