Supreme Court will hear challenge to ATF rule on self-assemble gun kits.
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"Everything was red. All I could see was red," Boyd, 20, told ABC News in an interview about the ordeal that nearly took his life. He lost his right eye and now suffers from chronic seizures, memory issues, depression and anxiety. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider whether self-assembled guns, parts kits, and partially complete firearm frames or receivers -- easily converted into a functional firearm -- can be subject to the same purchase restrictions and registration requirements as traditional guns.
A group of manufacturers sued the Biden administration, alleging the rule exceeds ATF authority because weapons kits do not meet the definition of "firearm" under the law. The agency argues that the law was written broadly to encompass fully functional guns and components that could be "readily" converted into one.
Gun safety advocates and gun kit manufacturers agree that the Biden administration's 2022 regulation, which is currently in effect, has been effective at curtailing the proliferation of homemade weapons. "There is a world of things under the law that are not 'guns.' There's a world of things in the law that are guns. We can all agree with that. This is about drawing the line between those two worlds," said Cody Wilson, co-founder and CEO of Defense Distributed, one of the largest manufacturers of gun parts kits and a plaintiff in the high court case.
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