WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule — aimed at reining in privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes — as soon as Monday, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Completion of the rule comes as the White House and the Justice Department have been under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths and violent crime in the U.S.
The White House has also been weighing naming Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney from Ohio, to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, the people said. Biden had to withdraw the nomination of his first nominee, gun-control advocate David Chipman, after the nomination stalled for months because of opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate.
For nearly a year, the rule has been making its way through the federal regulation process. Gun safety groups and Democrats in Congress have been pushing for the Justice Department to finish the rule for months. It will probably be met with heavy resistance from gun groups and draw litigation in the coming weeks.
The exact timing of the announcement hasn’t been set, the people said. They could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity. The White House declined to comment.
On Sunday, the Senate’s top Democrat, Sen. Chuck Schumer, of New York, implored the administration to move faster.
“It’s high time for a ghost gun exorcism before the proliferation peaks, and before more people get hurt — or worse,” Schumer said in a statement. “My message is a simple one: No more waiting on these proposed federal rules.” Ghost guns are “too easy to build, too hard to trace and too dangerous to ignore.”
Justice Department statistics show that nearly 24,000 ghost guns were recovered by law enforcement at crime scenes and reported to the government from 2016 to 2020. It is hard to say how many are circulating on the streets, in part because in many cases police departments don’t contact the government about the guns because they can’t be traced.
The rule is expected to change the current definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun.
In its proposed rule released last May, the ATF said it was also seeking to require manufacturers and dealers who sell ghost gun parts to be licensed by the federal government and require federally licensed firearms dealers to add a serial number to any unserialized guns they plan to sell.
The rule would also require firearms dealers to run background checks before they sell ghost gun kits that contain parts needed to assemble a firearm.
For years, federal officials have been sounding the alarm about an increasing black market for homemade, military-style semi-automatic rifles and handguns. As well as turning up more frequently at crime scenes, ghost guns have been increasingly encountered when federal agents buy guns in undercover operations from gang members and other criminals.
Some states, like California, have enacted laws in recent years to require serial numbers to be stamped on ghost guns.
The critical component in building an untraceable gun is what is known as the lower receiver, a part typically made of metal or polymer. An unfinished receiver — sometimes referred to as an “80-percent receiver” — can be legally bought online with no serial numbers or other markings on it, no license required.
Police across the country have been reporting spikes in ghost guns being recovered by officers. The New York Police Department, for example, said officers found 131 unserialized firearms since January.
A gunman who killed his wife and four others in Northern California in 2017 had been prohibited from owning firearms, but he built his own to skirt the court order before his rampage. And in 2019, a teenager used a homemade handgun to fatally shoot two classmates and wound three others at a school in suburban Los Angeles.
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Chuck Schumer stated the Democrat position on nearly every law and regulation they want to put into effect, “No more waiting on these proposed Federal rules!” Summing it up in a nutshell.
“On Sunday, the Senate’s top Democrat, Sen. Chuck Schumer, of New York, implored the administration to move faster.”
Question – How many people have been killed by “ghost guns in the U.S.”?
There were 91,799 drug-involved overdose deaths reported in the U.S. in 2021; 69% of cases occurred among males. Synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl brought into our country by the result of the treasonous Democrat party importing illegal immigrants carrying fentanyl were the main driver of drug overdose deaths.
But these deaths have no value to the treasonous Democrat Party’s political agendas or their intentions. Only the deaths that support the treasonous Democrat Party’s political Cons and Deceptions matter to the Democrat Party.
And the rule will have little if any impact. If you a thug in Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit (pick your big city) this rule will mean absolutely nothing. Nothing will change in this arena. The thugs will continue to make their own guns and kill people.
YET many libtard states make it EASIER TO SHOOT UP DRUGS!
John Locke Once Saod ” We Are Like Chameleons, We Take The Hue And Color Of Our Moral Character , From Those Who Are Around Us . ” The democrat, Socialist , Communist Party Of America surrounds The Middle Class Americans And We, ” like Chameleons ” Are Forced ” To Take on The Hue And The Color of Our Moral Character From Those Who Are Around Us. “
Interesting–all the gunmen mentioned have one thing in common–they do not belong to the NRA. Surprised?
AND what’s the bet, most of those who got caught WITH THOSE GUNS at crime scenes, by LAW, shouldn’t have had firearms period, due to felony convictions in the past!!
I Looked Up The Word , ” Inanmate In The Dictionary and It said ” zNot Having The Qualities Associated With Active , Living, Organisms… ” A ” Gun , ” is An, ” Inanimate , ” object And Requires A Criminal Thug To Use A ” Inanimate ” Gun..
When the second amendment was written, there were NO serial numbers on ANY guns. And, by the way slo joe, the constitution is ABSOLUTE, including the amendments. You CAN NOT change it by executive “rule”. That is what despot dictators do. There is a process for amending the constitution, but you know that would NEVER FLY with the American people. Resign in disgrace slo joe. No one wants you anymore.
“My message is a simple one: No more waiting on these proposed federal rules.” Ghost guns are “too easy to build, too hard to trace and too dangerous to ignore.”
Not nearly as dangerous as an out of control Uniparty Kleptocratic Thugocratic rouge government, Schmeckie.
Whoops! Excuse my typo. “rouge” should have read “rogue”.
That’s the dem way though.. USE “executive Fiat’ to override the rule of laws!
A written rule/law means absolutely nothing to criminals. Only by having the consequences be harsh enough will it get the attention of criminals. Shoot the dog, get rid of rabies but make sure the gun/rifle used is legal (pun intended). I do not this literally but criminals need to know that they will forfeit freedom for a long, long time for just the first conviction. It appears that even criminals with prior convictions and in possession of an illegal weapon are easily released. WHY?
AND that’s the problem. THE LEFT LOVES ignoring laws ALREADY WROTE.. So why make new laws, that will just be IGNORED too!
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THESE DEMONS WILL NOT STOP UNTIL WE ARE ALL SLAVES.
they will be coming for our guns just like they are witch hunting president trump for the last 6yrs.
by the way were the perps in sacremento white? black? hispanic? asian?
i’ ll bet they were black just like in chicago and hell even my home town on the local news its the black thugs beating,shooting robbing but blm issupposed to matter to us? it dont matter to them.
They can pry mine, from my cold, dead hands.
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“The right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT be infringed”!
Seems pretty clear, to me!
i agree but in america right now laws mean nothing and i mean right down to speeding in a school zone type of lawlessness.
the left want things so bad and so unlawful then they will install marshal LAW.
the its game over america.
THE LEFT, hell most all in govt, has been trodding on that “Shall not be infringed’, since at LEAST the 50s..
I wonder if the Supremes would even uphold the 2ND anymore. It is odd to me that gun violence on a large scale seem only to occur when Dems are in charge. And they cheer Ukraine for all those guns. Here, they live in fear of the 2nd because they are constantly doing things that are against the People. I fear for my country.
FOR Decades, the feckless scotus, has kept Kicking 2a lawsuits DOWN THE ROAD… So as to not have to tackle the issue..
I fear the current bunch, will either do the same, OR RULE AGAINST the 2a.. I have little to NO FAITH that they will honor their oaths TO uphold our constitution these days..
I would like to know how many of these “ghost guns” the stupid smelly urine soaked senile pants POS says are committed in all these crimes are really just stolen legal guns with the serial numbers filed off.
The statistic I’d love to see is how many crimes are solved by tracing firearm serial numbers. My bet; close to zero.
You can bet, IF THEY HAD those stats, they certainly won’t show US them!
What I don’t understand is how laws and orders that violate the Constitution are enforced. There has to be some mechanism in place to suspend these actions. What part of “shall not be infringed” is unenforceable or ignored?