{"id":1434504,"date":"2023-10-23T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1434504"},"modified":"2023-10-23T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T03:40:00","slug":"john-lott-opines-on-supreme-court-ghost-gun-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/john-lott-opines-on-supreme-court-ghost-gun-regulation\/1434504\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lott Opines On Supreme Court ‘Ghost Gun’ Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Lott Opines On Supreme Court ‘Ghost Gun’ Regulation<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClear Wire<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

On Monday, in a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court voted<\/a> without comment to allow the Biden administration\u2019s regulations on \u201cghost guns\u201d to go into effect. <\/strong>The rules require serial numbers on gun parts.<\/p>\n

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Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined their three Democrat-appointed colleagues in allowing the Biden administration to enforce these rules while the Biden administration appeals a lower court ruling.<\/p>\n

Democrats have pushed for serial numbers on all parts of guns, saying it\u2019s a way to protect public safety and prevent violent crime. \u201cThe public-safety interests in reversing the flow of ghost guns to dangerous and otherwise prohibited persons easily outweighs the minor costs that respondents will incur,\u201d Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote<\/a> in a court filing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will help to ensure that law enforcement officers can retrieve the information they need to solve crimes<\/strong>,\u201d U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0last year. \u201cAnd it will help reduce the number of untraceable firearms flooding our communities.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s expanded use of serial numbers is aimed at stopping the production of homemade guns, now called \u201cghost guns\u201d by gun control advocates. Homemade guns have been around since before the United States became a country, and it was never terribly difficult to make a gun with simple machine tools. But now their production has become nearly impossible to regulate. With\u00a03D metal printers<\/a>, people can now make weapons that are indistinguishable from those purchased in stores.<\/p>\n

But, even if homemade guns had serial numbers, that still wouldn\u2019t help law enforcement solve crimes. <\/strong>TV shows such as \u201cLaw & Order\u201d do not reflect reality.<\/p>\n

In theory, if criminals leave registered guns at a crime scene, the serial numbers can be used to trace the weapons back to the perpetrators.<\/p>\n

But, in real life, guns are only left at the scene of a crime when gunmen have been seriously injured or killed<\/strong>. With both the criminal and the weapon present at a scene, police can solve these crimes without registration. In the exceedingly unusual instances where registered guns are left at the scene, they aren\u2019t registered to the person who committed the crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police in Hawaii<\/a>, <\/a>Illinois<\/a>, <\/a>Pennsylvania<\/a>, and <\/a>New York<\/a> have had registration systems in place for decades but can\u2019t point to any crimes that this has helped them to solve. Even entire countries such as Canada haven\u2019t had success.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New York and Maryland spent tens of millions of dollars<\/a>\u00a0compiling a computer database that contained the unique ballistic \u201cfingerprints\u201d of each new gun sold over a 15-year period. Even these states, which strongly favor gun control, eventually abolished their systems because they\u00a0never solved a single crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite Biden\u2019s claims, his new ghost gun regulations are no more useful. Combined with Biden\u2019s zero-tolerance policy for any paperwork mistakes by gun dealers, which has put thousands of licensed dealers out of business<\/a>, this new rule is quite nefarious. Biden wants to put gun dealers out of business if they make any paperwork mistake, no matter how trivial or inconsequential. With each part of a gun having a different serial number, just transferring a barrel from one gun to another requires redoing all the paperwork on both guns. Biden is adding significant costs to gun dealers and manufacturers and increasing the likelihood of mistakes that would put them out of business.<\/p>\n

There is a possible argument for using serial numbers for tax purposes, to allow for easier proof of whether a gun has been taxed. The 1934 National Firearms Act imposed taxes on certain weapons, such as machine guns. But licensed dealers can still make sure that guns are properly taxed when sold, just as sales taxes are imposed on items at any other store.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s decision on Monday isn\u2019t the final word. But the real question is this: Why do Democrats keep pushing a policy that costs so much and has no crime-reducing benefits? Someday, knowing who owns guns will help them to target their confiscation efforts. Mass registration will set the stage for future gun bans.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 10\/23\/2023 – 19:40<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/john-lott-opines-supreme-court-ghost-gun-regulation<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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