Gun violence isn’t inevitable—it’s a choice by our leaders.
At March For Our Lives, we attack this epidemic from all angles including through the courts.
Although election season is over, the Supreme Court is still in session and we have an opportunity to create real change through the legal decisions that come down from the court. We do this by filing amicus briefs that show the impact of gun violence on young people and survivors.
Our Judicial Advocacy Team recently filed two amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court in the critical case Garland v. VanDerStok.
Here’s what you need to know:
- In 2022, the Biden-Harris administration and ATF banned the gun industry from manufacturing and selling kits for “ghost guns,” AKA unserialized, untraceable firearms that can be easily assembled in minutes from parts acquired without a background check. Gun manufacturers filed a lawsuit to overturn this rule, arguing that ATF overstepped its authority. The Fifth Circuit sided with gun manufacturers, halting the enforcement of this life-saving rule.
- March For Our Lives and our partners at Brady and Everytown filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to hear this case and hopefully reverse this reckless decision. They listened!
- In July, we filed our second brief to tell SCOTUS that if this decision is upheld, ghost guns will remain unregulated and undetectable, leaving them in the hands of teenagers and people who are prohibited from owning firearms.
- In October, the Court heard oral arguments for the case.
- We’re still waiting on the decision today.
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The ATF estimates that between 2016 and 2022, law enforcement personnel recovered approximately 71,024 unserialized crime guns.
A weapon is a weapon, and ghost guns NEED to be treated as such.
Early data already indicates a drop in ghost gun recoveries at crime scenes since the ATF’s rule went into effect, further proving that a Supreme Court ruling affirming the rule in VanDerStok is absolutely essential to public safety.
We can’t afford to roll this back. The Supreme Court will have blood on their hands if they deregulate ghost guns. We’re doing everything we can right now to prevent that from happening.
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