But legal experts say the Supreme Court's ruling four months ago may not be a harbinger of whether the ghost gun regulation will fall, and in this case, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, two members of the court's conservative wing, will be the key members to wat...
The Supreme Court voted Tuesday to reinstate regulations on untraceable homemade weapons -- known as ghost guns -- while the legal challenges play out. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe explains more about the ruling
Washington —The Supreme Court on Tuesday paused a lower court decision that invalidated the Biden administration's efforts to regulate so-calledghost guns, allowing enforcement of the restrictions while legal proceedings continue. The5-4 orderfrom the court came hours before a temporary pause issued ...
While guns are at the center of the case, Garland v. VanDerStok, the legal issues are about the power of federal agencies rather than Second Amendment rights. The case comes after the high courtstruck downanother firearm regulation, a Trump-era ban on gun accessories known as bump st...
WASHINGTON —The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation ofdifficult-to-trace ghost gunsthat had been struck down by lower courts. The justices in a 5-4 vote had previously intervened to keep the regulatio...
The Supreme Court had granted a stay reinstating the federal regulation on ghost guns in August 2023, putting on hold a ruling by a federal judge in Texas that had struck down the rule, while the Department of Justice appealed to the 5th Circuit. The 5th Circuit, which is made ...
The Biden administration told the court that weapon parts kits can be converted into a fully functional firearm in just 21 minutes, and ghost guns allow felons, minors and others barred from buying firearms to circumvent the law. If left in place, the 5th Circuit's ruling would give the ma...
The court’s 6-3 conservative majority has continued to moveU.S. law rightwardin recent years. The first major case of the term comes on Tuesday when the justiceshear argumentsin an appeal by President Joe Biden’s administration of a judicial ruling against a U.S. regulation cracking down...
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a ban on gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns violates federal
The case involves some of the nation's biggest and most well-known gun companies. They're urging the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that allowed Mexico's lawsuit against them to proceed despite despite a 2005 law that broadly shields the firearms industry from liability. ...