Supreme Court Upholds Regulations on Ghost Guns, Like the One Allegedly Used by Luigi Mangione To Kill the CEO of UnitedHealthcare
A gun kit is a gun the same way an unassembled table is still a table, Justice Gorsuch says in delivering the majority opinion.
In a split decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that untraceable firearms built from kits, known as ghost guns, are weapons that are covered under the Gun Control Act.
Crimes linked to those types of guns have been rapidly increasing and one was linked to a recent high-profile killing. Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last year, was believed to have used a ghost gun in the shooting.
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