Like Most Gun Control, the ATF’s Supreme Court-Approved ‘Ghost Gun’ Rule is Built on Fantasy and Fear

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In yet another slap in the face to the Second Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Biden-era ATF rule mandating serial numbers and background checks for unfinished frames and receivers — often demonized by the anti-gun crowd as “ghost guns.”

Let’s be crystal clear: this rule doesn’t stop criminals. It doesn’t make anyone safer. All it does is give unelected federal bureaucrats at the ATF more power to target and surveil law-abiding gun owners who simply want to build firearms — a tradition as old as America itself.

If a criminal wants a gun, he’s not going to follow ATF paperwork requirements. He’s going to scratch off serial numbers, build in secret, or buy illegally — just like they always have.

As firearms expert and influencer Brandon Herrera put it, “What does the gun control crowd think making people serialize 80% lowers will do? Make them magically trackable? How? You just added a number. And if people really did want to do something illegal with it, they would just… not add the number, or file it off.”

Exactly. This rule — like most gun control — is built on fantasy and fear, not facts or function.

What this decision really does is uphold an unconstitutional expansion of ATF authority under the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the National Firearms Act of 1934 — two relics of federal overreach that have been weaponized against American citizens for decades.

The NFA gave birth to gun registries and taxation schemes. The Gun Control Act of 1968 layered on prohibitions, background checks, and a litany of federal “gotchas” that turn honest mistakes into felonies. Both laws treat the Second Amendment not as a right — but a privilege to be rationed and regulated.

The ATF has used these laws as a blank check to wage war on gun owners — through rule changes, raids, and enforcement traps. And now, thanks to the Supreme Court, they’ve been given even more authority to treat gun parts like complete firearms, subject to the full brunt of federal red tape.

That’s why gun rights organizations like Texas Gun Rights are demanding Congress take bold action: Pass H.R. 221 to abolish the ATF. Pass H.R. 335 to repeal the NFA. And now it’s time to go even further and repeal the Gun Control Act of 1968, too.

Because until these unconstitutional laws are wiped off the books, the government will always find a way to infringe — whether it’s through background checks, registries, or redefining parts as “guns.”

And let’s not forget: under President Trump’s executive order, Attorney General Pam Bondi and ATF Acting Director Kash Patel are now expected to vacate all Biden-era ATF rules and publicly release a full report on the damage done by Biden’s gun control agenda. Gun owners didn’t elect President Trump to tinker around the edges of federal gun control. They elected him to dismantle it.

This Supreme Court ruling may be a win for the ATF, but it’s also a wake-up call to gun owners everywhere. If we don’t abolish the bureaucratic machinery of gun control now, it will only grow more aggressive, more invasive, and more emboldened.

This was never about stopping crime. It’s about controlling you.

 

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5 thoughts on “Like Most Gun Control, the ATF’s Supreme Court-Approved ‘Ghost Gun’ Rule is Built on Fantasy and Fear”

  1. Dude

    Let’s be crystal clear: this rule doesn’t stop criminals.

    Technically, that’s beside the point, right? That begs the question, why was Gorsuch talking about criminal use? I’m not a lawyer, so maybe I’m missing something. I thought the point was to interpret the Constitution.

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    1. I Haz A Question

      It’s about the Minority Report concept of “well, you might not have actually chosen to engage in criminal activity against your fellow Man as of yet, but you just may, so we want to implement controls to establish Guv’s control over you keep our communities safe…for the children, of course.”

      So…question (because I haz one): Does this ruling mean requirements for serial numbering on PMFs across the nation are now enforceable? And if so, is it only for sales from this point forward, or has Gorsuch sided with tyrants like Newsom/CADOJ that require all existing frames (even those that were finished before requirements kicked in here in CA, or for unfinished frames still-in-box and untouched) be serialized under penalty of prosecution?

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  2. Shire-man

    An insane amount of resources, time, money, legislation and even food goes toward the futile task of trying to manage the lowest quintile of the population.
    Some people are perfectly fine with the collateral damage that brings like having their rights infringed upon. Other people are not fine with this.

    I say stop trying to manage the Morlocks. They cannot be managed. They never will be managed. Continually trying to manage them only hurts civilization.
    No moon bases. No interstellar travel. No fusion reactors. No cancer cures. Mountains of landfill crap trinkets and endless consumption of future garbage to enrich others to purchase more expensive forms of future garbage.

    It’s because we keep carrying the Morlocks. I’m not saying exterminate them. That comes with it’s own excess costs. Just stop carrying them.

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