Biden Ghost Gun Rule Can Stay in Effect, Supreme Court Says (1)

A divided US Supreme Court let President Joe Biden’s administration regulate build-at-home “ghost guns” while a legal fight goes forward, blocking a lower court ruling that said officials were overstepping their authority.

The 5-4 order, which granted an administration request, boosts efforts to control what officials say has become a flood of untraceable weapons. It lets the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives resume enforcing a year-old rule that a federal trial judge had briefly halted.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh dissented. As is often the case with emergency requests, neither ...