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'Ghost gun' crackdown proposal issued by Department of Justice
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Mark A. Taff
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For the first time since 1968, the Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is seeking to update the legal definition of firearm in an effort to crack down on "ghost guns."
The proposed rule seeks to redefine "frame or receiver" as well as classify more firearm kits as "complete" firearms, making them subject to more regulation and oversight. It also seeks to legally define terms such as "complete muffler or silencer device" as well as "privately made firearms." |
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The only constitutional approach to home made guns in general, and "ghost guns" in particular, is heavier penalties when they are used to commit a crime.
The rationale that the reg's purpose is to keep criminals from making them by invoking prior restraint fails constitutional muster.
What statists (and Democrats almost exclusively) reject is the principle that the government has no legitimate power to attenuate natural rights of peaceable people who have no criminal or mental history, based on the mere possibility that some 'might' use those rights to commit crimes. |
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