The US Supreme Court decides on ghost guns

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the US Supreme Court decides on the control of laws related to a type of hand-made weapon known as “ghost weapons”.

According to this report, the Supreme Court will decide on federal laws governing the use of “ghost weapons”. slow as the Joe Biden administration fights a dramatic increase in the use of these untraceable weapons in crimes across the country.

Accordingly, the Supreme Court judges, reviewing the lower court’s appeal, found that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2022, from Its competence and limit has been exceeded in approving laws related to various parts of these weapons.

Ghost weapons are a type of handmade weapons that people can buy a kit and easily in a short period of time by connecting its different parts together, make a deadly weapon without serialization and impossible. make a trace.

This case is supposed to be examined in the next session of the Supreme Court which will begin in October.

In the law ATF aims to rapidly manufacture handguns whose parts are easily sold online without federal requirements such as serial numbers or buyer background checks. Features that make these weapons attractive weapons for criminals and other people who are not legally allowed to buy guns.

Also in this law, the definition of a firearm under the federal laws of 1968 called the Gun Control Act to include various parts and kits that potentially become a gun , has expanded. The necessity of including the serial number and requiring manufacturers and sellers to obtain a license for weapons are among other provisions of this law. According to this law, sellers must check the buyer’s background before selling a weapon.

Plaintiffs and defendants in this case, including manufacturers of gun parts, owners of various gun manufacturing companies and two gun advocacy groups, have filed a petition in federal court in Texas to block this law.

According to the ATF, police departments across the country are facing a growing wave of crimes involving ghost guns. , they are facing, weapons that are produced by tens of thousands of them every year.

However, documents released in court show that ghost weapons are almost untraceable. But the ATF has successfully tracked unlicensed buyers, recovering less than 1 percent of non-serialized guns from crime scenes from 2016 to 2021.

The increase in armed violence in the United States to So much so that every week we see bloody shootings somewhere in the United States. These shootings in public places such as schools, shopping malls and churches have increased dramatically. Some of these crimes were committed with these types of weapons.

It is said that the high number of mass shootings in America has caused public anxiety and insecurity and has started many political discussions. Critics accuse pro-gun Republican extremists of treacherous collaboration with the gun lobby.

In recent years, anti-gun lobby groups Of course, they have gained influence in America, but at the top of politics, due to the balance of power in the Senate and systemic limitations, not much has been done yet. So the Republicans are still on the side of the gun owners and the Democrats are getting nowhere with their projects. Some say, Biden could simply issue executive orders, or declare a public health emergency, and take countermeasures given the toll of gun violence. However, in both cases, this would be easy to undo and the next election is only a few months away.

National Rifle Association of America ( NRA) is one of the most powerful non-military organizations in this country that drives the interests of gun owners and those who deem it necessary.

The association may have lost some of its influence in recent years and may not be as financially powerful as it was in 2016, when it spent about $54 million on the presidential campaign. But the gun lobby and its supporters have since invested about $33 million in the 2020 presidential election. One of their main goals is to prevent stricter laws against gun owners.

In this situation, the ruling Democrats are particularly in favor of strict gun laws, in While the Republicans are against it. But the majority of American political representatives are against building a legislative wall in the US Senate against this issue. To implement such a project, a 60% majority in Congress is required, which does not exist.

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