AP By DON THOMPSON September 29, 2020
Backed by the fathers of two slain children, California’s attorney general sued the Trump administration on Tuesday in an effort to crack down on “ghost guns†that can be built from parts and make it difficult to track or regulate owners.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives doesn’t consider the do-it-yourself kits to be firearms, so buyers don’t have to undergo the usual background checks and in most states the guns are not required to have serial numbers.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s lawsuit asks a federal judge in San Francisco to order the agency to change its policy, arguing that it violates the common definition of a firearm under federal law and that the agency’s decision in 2006 to stop considering the parts as firearms was arbitrary and capricious.
Agency spokeswoman April Langwell said the ATF does not comment on pending litigation.
The lawsuit was called frivolous and “another outrageous example of Attorney General Becerra attacking law-abiding gun owners†by Brandon Combs, president of the Sacramento, California-based Firearms Policy Coalition that promotes gun-owners’ rights.
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