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Twenty US Republican Party-governed states have kicked off a legal challenge to “unconstitutional” federal plans to ban so-called “ghost guns”.
Attorneys general of West Virginia and Arizona led the states in issuing an official “comments” document opposing Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) proposals to regulate the sale of firearms components.
According to Press TV, US President Joe Biden pledged during his election campaign to slap a new ban on “assault weapons”, but since taking office, his Democratic Party has focused on the sale of unfinished firearm receivers to enthusiasts building their own guns.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said, “Private individuals and businesses have the right to assemble firearms for their own use — a fact borne out in early American history and expressly recognized by the Gun Control Act.”
“The Second Amendment is a core tenant of our Constitution, and this regulation would treat the activity of assembling firearm parts as a problem to be stamped out, rather than a right and tradition to be respected,” he added.
The Biden administration has proposed further regulations of ghost guns to stem gun violence in America. Ghost guns are homemade firearms that aren’t marked with a commercial serial number because such parts have been exempt from federal laws, according to US media.
The Biden administration aims to crack down on individuals buying partially-finished frames and receivers without undergoing background checks.
US gun-control groups argue that the lack of regulation of ghost guns is “the fastest-growing gun safety problem in America.”
The Republican-led states, however, say federal law authorizes the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to regulate complete firearms and receivers, not the individual parts of an incomplete receiver, and new regulations could put certain gun parts manufacturers out of business.
