ghost guns

(Newser) - Police have said the suspect in the murder of health insurance exec Brian Thompson had what's known as a ghost gun in his backpack when arrested. The weapon appears to be the same type of gun used in Thompson's murder, reports NBC News , but ballistics tests are still...

(Newser) - The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in one of its most closely watched cases of the new term—whether "ghost guns" can be regulated in much the same manner as regular guns. And while the decision won't be out for months, the court seems poised to side with...

(Newser) - The Supreme Court starts a new nine-month term on Monday, and the first major case will come Tuesday, when the court hears arguments in a case involving "ghost guns"—untraceable firearms assembled from kits, often with very little effort involved, Reuters reports. In Garland v. VanDerStok, the Biden...

(Newser) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. The justices by a 5-4 vote had previously intervened to keep the regulation in effect during the legal fight. Ghost guns, which...