A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday sided with the federal government on an issue involving ghost guns, sending the case back to a lower court with instructions to dismiss it after finding California and a gun prevention organization suffered no injury.
The panel found California and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence had no standing to challenge a final rule created by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
At issue was whether parts of ghost guns fell under Gun Control Act regulations, as they lack an essential piece and are considered unfinished. The state argued this forced it to increase funding for its own legislation regulating ghost gun parts and for training officers about them. The center said ATF’s lax regulation of ghost guns hurt its goal and made it divert resources to fight the guns’ spread.
“Plaintiffs challenge the regulation’s failure to extend the GCA to even more partially complete firearm receivers that they think should be included,” U.S. Circuit Judge Consuelo Callahan, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote for the panel. “We must decide whether plaintiffs have standing to raise their challenge. They do not.”
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