Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that said gun kits that include all the parts, or receivers that include the main body of a weapon that just needs to have the final holes drilled and material scraped away, are close enough to manufactured guns that they fall under the 1968 Gun Control Act.
Supreme Court casts skeptical eye toward unregulated 'ghost' guns
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The head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says he’s so inept he “can’t screw in a lightbulb,” but even he was able to build a “ghost” gun from a kit with no problem.
How easy is it to make a ghost gun? Supreme Court faces next big firearms case
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