Report: Obiden’s Ban on ‘Ghost Guns’ Lasted Less Than One Minute for Enterprising Retailers

The Obiden Regime and Congressional communists recently celebrated Joe-Joe’s act of banning “ghost guns” by executive order.

However, a recent report from The Federalist has shown that, due to changes made in retailers’ inventory, the Obiden ban on firearms lasted less than one minute.

The Obiden new federal regulation, which went into effect on Aug. 24, prohibited the sale of kits that contain everything the end user would need to construct a functioning gun from being sold without a background check.

And the executive action was prematurely hailed by Gun Control advocates.

However, the celebrations from the Second Amendment opposition groups may have been a bit premature.

As Max McGuire wrote for The Federalist:

As soon as the clock struck midnight and [Obiden’s] new rule went into effect, retailers had already adjusted their inventory to comply with the new regulations. [Oiden’s] ban on ‘ghost guns’ lasted no longer than a minute.

The ban, in effect, added to the existing regulations new language that if a retailer sold the necessary, though unfinished, components to construct a gun together, then these kits “may be readily converted” to fire projectiles and would therefore legally constitute a “firearm.”

McGuire noted:

[T]he stack of boxes from four separate orders would not legally count as a firearm.

Naturally, that’s precisely what retailers did: They required separate orders or refused to sell all four items to the same customer, thus requiring a purchaser to use multiple vendors so that no single retailer ever actually sold a “firearm.”

It took less than 60 seconds, according to the report from Federalist. By 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 24, [Obiden’s] regulatory change, accomplished with the stroke of a pen, had been rendered moot with the click of a mouse.

The only thing that the Obiden Regime has succeeded at with this move is to make it marginally less convenient and more expensive to purchase and construct a so-called “ghost gun.”

McGuire said:

This regulation was never aimed at the criminal class, though. Like all gun control, it targets the law-abiding. Politicians and bureaucrats fear homemade firearms because they exist outside of regulated firearm commerce.

He continued:

There is no serial number or background check, so the federal government does not know who owns them. In a dystopian future where government agents could be dispatched to seize Americans’ known or registered firearms, the homemade guns would remain.

The brief episode of gamesmanship between those who would strip We the People of our Second Amendment Rights and the not-to-be-outdone gun industry on Aug. 24 indicates the “arms race” will live on.

Regulators acting on communist politics with their teams of razor-sharp lawyers schooled on the nuances of English rhetoric and intent upon clamping down on gun manufacturers and gun-owners rights are no match for the industry’s ingenuity and We the People’s determination not to be infringed.

Think Lucy, Charlie Brown, and a football—this contest will continue.