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.”
ATF Approves 4473 Suppressor Sales? (But Don’t Get Too Excited)
“We are still awaiting some kind of guidance from ATF about how the sale of certain NFA items will occur moving forward. Until that actually occurs, we are all guessing. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, tries to execute an educated guess based upon recent reporting by a journailst that has proven to be reliable in the past. While we know that suppressors have been trasnferred via a 4473, there are now reports that at least 4 FFLs have since been inspected by ATF IOIs and no violations have been uncovered. That means, those IOIs have approved all the relevant paperwork related to those transfers. Does this mean that all FFLs nationwide are free to do it this way? Absolutely NOT and we will explain why.”
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The Hero Who Helped Stop The Idaho In-N-Out Active Shooter.
“In this interview, we sit down with Jordan Salinas, the armed citizen who stepped in during the recent shooting at an In-N-Out in Idaho. Jordan walks us through the entire incident from his perspective—what he saw, the decisions he made in those critical moments, and how he ultimately helped bring the threat to an end.
We break down the timeline, Jordan’s mindset under extreme pressure, and what happened before, during, and after the shooting. This is his firsthand account of an ordinary day turning into a life-or-death situation in a matter of seconds—and the actions of a citizen who chose to intervene when lives were at risk.”
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“At issue was whether parts of ghost guns fell under Gun Control Act regulations, as they lack an essential piece and are considered unfinished.”
I expect to see more of this, as it is common in Europe to regulate the pressure-bearing components like barrels and breeches in their guns…
Is Ilhan Omar in the Process of Potentially Being Deported? Here’s What Trump Said.
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We’re going to circle back to this eventually, but for now, conservatives are celebrating: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) could be deported. It’s Trump, and things change. They might not work out, but the president did confirm that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun proceedings against the Minnesota Democrat over allegations of fraud.
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#BREAKING: Trump confirms ICE proceedings against Ilhan Omar over alleged fraud.
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ht* tps://townhall.com/news/mattvespa/2026/08/24/wait-is-ilhan-omar-in-the-process-of-potentially-being-deported-heres-what-trump-said-n2681757
[note: the ‘fraud’ being spoken of is immigration fraud]
Even gay people have had enough of the trans insanity: Top GOP Gay Advocacy Group Drops the ‘T’ in ‘LGBT’ – ‘Not the Movement We Supported and Fought For’
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Be honest, is this an Ai generated piece of “art” at the top?????
If so, should both photographers AND writers on this website be kicked to the curb if generic, pseudo crap-slop can be produced cheaper than using actual humans?
Asking for a friend who remembers beautiful gun magazine photography …..
The gun on top looks like some sort of stock photo of a “ghost gun”. I wouldn’t expect such things to look pretty.
“Ghost gun”? WTF are you taking about. TJ is right. That is AI slop, not your idea of a ghost gun. “Ghost gun” refers to an unserialized home-built receiver, not some visually unappealing weapon.
I love the chutzpah of the Giffords Center:
“We don’t like X so if you allow X you are forcing us to agitate against X more than we otherwise would have.”
That’s the most insane claim to standing I’ve ever heard.
Courts have refused to grant standing to average citizens suing the federal government over its pro-illegal immigration policies under the Autopen Regency. Even though citizens can show a variety of harms and damages, because they are not particularized, they aren’t given standing.
Now this Gifford case is orders of magnitude weaker. What if I took the opposite position? What if I said that I don’t like the ATF’s *overregulation* of ghost guns and sued it because it made me spend resources to fight its regulations? I’d get laughed out of court.
It’s just silly. Just because a law or regulation stimulates someone or some organization to advocate against it does not confer standing to them.
It think it is equivalent to: I’m suing you because you’re making me sue you.
Talk about circular logic…