Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“In early October, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Garland v. VanDerStok, a case disputing the Biden administration’s attempts to regulate ‘ghost guns’ — firearms built at home, often from pre-supplied parts kits, rather than manufactured in mass quantities and sold with individual serial numbers. The issue, Justin Jouvenal writes at the Washington Post, is ‘whether weapons parts kits that can be readily assembled count as guns under the Gun Control Act, and whether a partially completed frame or receiver … can be regulated under the same law. The case does not directly implicate Second Amendment rights.’ Except, of course, that it does. Like a forlorn stood-up date, the Second Amendment continues to exist even if those who pretend they’re going steady with it pretend it doesn’t.” (10/18/24)