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A federal judge in Texas has declared that a regulation adopted by Democratic former President \u200cJoe Biden’s administration targeting largely untraceable “ghost guns” is unconstitutional \u2014 a ruling issued after the U.S. Supreme Court last year upheld the measure.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth ruled, opens new tab on Monday that the 2022 rule violates the right to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution’s Second \u200bAmendment and was too vague to satisfy the Fifth Amendment’s due process guarantees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Supreme Court in March 2025 \u200boverturned an earlier ruling that O’Connor had made in the case that found the rule \u2060targeting parts and kits for ghost guns to be unlawful.
The Supreme Court’s 7-2 ruling focused not on whether the rule \u200bcomported with the Constitution but instead on whether the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had exceeded its authority \u200bin adopting it.
The regulation requires manufacturers of firearms kits and parts, such as partially complete frames or receivers, to mark their products with serial numbers, obtain licenses and conduct background checks on purchasers as already required for other commercially made firearms.

The rule also specified that the \u200bkits and components are covered by the definition of “firearm” under the 1968 Gun Control Act and that commercial manufacturers \u200bof such kits must become licensed.
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling, the gun rights group Second Amendment Foundation and a manufacturer of some of \u200cthe \u2060targeted products, Defense Distributed, asked O’Connor to again block the rule’s enforcement on grounds that the Supreme Court did not address.
O’Connor, who was appointed by Republican former President George W. Bush, said the rule infringes on a person’s right to make or repair personal firearms by restricting access to necessary components and “contradicts the actual historical tradition of personal gunsmithing.”
“Self-manufacture of firearms \u200bin America was common and \u200bindeed foundational to establishing \u2060our Nation,” O’Connor wrote.
The judge blocked the rule from being enforced against Defense Distributed as well as the Second Amendment Foundation’s members with respect to some of the company’s products. \u200bThe group’s executive director, Adam Kraut, hailed the ruling in a statement, calling the Biden-era \u200brule “a mess.”
The U.S. \u2060Justice Department, which oversees ATF, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
While the department under Republican President Donald Trump has been more supportive of expansive gun rights than the Biden administration, it had defended the “ghost guns” rule in court.
“There is no \u2060Second Amendment \u200bright to buy or sell an untraceable ghost gun kit without a \u200bbackground check. This decision is egregiously wrong, and we expect the Justice Department to promptly appeal,” Eric Tirschwell, executive director of the gun control advocacy \u200bgroup Everytown Law, said in a statement, referring to O’Connor’s ruling.
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