Supreme court reinstates Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ restrictions for now

Federal regulation aims to reining in privately made firearms that are difficult for law enforcement to trace

The US supreme court on Tuesday granted a request by President Joe Biden's administration to reinstate - at least for now - a federal regulation aimed at reining in privately made firearms called ghost guns" that are difficult for law enforcement to trace.

The justices put on hold a 5 July decision by US district judge Reed O'Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, that had blocked the 2022 rule nationwide pending the administration's appeal. O'Connor found that the administration exceeded its authority under a 1968 federal law called the Gun Control Act in implementing the rule relating to ghost guns, firearms that are privately assembled and lack the usual serial numbers required by the federal government.