July 31, 2026

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Excerpt from slaynews.com

A new poll spells doom for Democrats as they try to smear President Donald Trump with a “convicted felon” label ahead of the critical November elections.

As Trump prepares for a rematch against President Joe Biden, the new poll from the Associated Press (AP) shows that Americans are more concerned about the Democrats’ weaponization of government.

The AP poll shows that Americans are against jailing Trump.

However, the majority of respondents do approve of Hunter Biden serving prison time for felony gun crimes.

Biden and the Democrats have relentlessly attacked Trump as a “convicted felon” since he became the first U.S. president to be found guilty of a crime in May.

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As the Republican-controlled House is expected to take up a bill Wednesday aimed at making sure only U.S. citizens vote in federal elections, President Joe Biden is signaling he would kill the measure should it miraculously survive the Democrat-led Senate. Biden isn’t likely to need the veto pen.

Democrats will, however, be forced to explain why they oppose the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which requires documentary proof of citizenship to vote for president and members of Congress.

And while they have gotten plenty of cover from corporate media in asserting that foreign nationals — including illegal aliens — are rarely ever caught voting in federal elections, such explanations may not sit well with U.S. voters who overwhelmingly support prohibitions on noncitizens voting in federal elections. Most Americans, too, according to polls, are deeply concerned about the tsunami of illegal immigrants that has swamped U.S. communities on Biden’s watch. Exactly why the Biden administration has kept the border door wide open isn’t lost on anyone who has been paying attention for the past three and a half years.

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Excerpt from lidblog.com

 

Joe Biden and the Democrats (as well as their media lapdogs) keep trying to gaslight us all into thinking he is “fixing” the economy, but the truth is that the U.S. misery index has soared over his horrid four years in office.

The misery index was lower under Trump than it had been for a long time, but under Biden it has risen to new heights (or depths, if you will).

The only year it was up during Trump’s term was in 2020 when the scamdemic hit the nation. And then it was at 9.35. But before that, it was well under seven. and the lowest was the 5.44 seen in 2019. This was evidence that what Trump was doing was reversing the mess Obama had made.

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New York has essentially been a blue state for the past two decades, however in recent weeks it has become clear that this election season, it is in play for Republicans. Four years after Joe Biden bested Donald Trump there by 23 points in polling, polls have shown that the gap is narrowing following Biden’s miserable debate performanc.

Many Democratic allies of the president in the state have voiced their concerns about the possibility their party may lose ground. Few, however, have called on Biden to step down, with the most prominent politicians making it clear they still plan on backing him come November.

As Politico reports, a number of Democratic Party officials past and present have called on Biden to accept that New York is not as secure as it was during the last election, and spend more of his time and money there. While Biden was recently in the Hamptons for a private fundraiser, he has been urged to try and connect with everyday voters, as Trump did when he held a massive rally in the Bronx. On the night Trump attended a wake for a fallen NYPD officer, Biden partied at a tony, celeb-studded fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall.

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Billionaire and top Democrat donor Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, has been revealed to be funding a lawsuit to silence election reporting. Hoffman is the same Democrat donor who funded a “Russian-style” disinformation campaign in 2017, financially backed E. Jean Carroll’s suspicious lawsuit against Donald Trump, and visited pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.

Hoffman is investing millions in Smartmatic, the electronic tabulator company suing Fox News and Newsmax for defamation following the 2020 election, according to The Washington Post. Hoffman said he intends to help keep the company afloat, as it has been pursuing expensive legal retribution against the outlets for their election reporting.

In a statement to The Washington Post, Hoffman claimed “Smartmatic became a target of the defamatory campaign to overturn [Trump’s] defeat.”

Fox and Newsmax hosted commentators who aired concerns that tabulators were not secure, were vulnerable to voter fraud, and had possibly changed Trump votes to Biden votes. Smartmatic alleges that hosting these discussions constituted defamation. Fox settled a suit with Dominion Voting last year over similar allegations.

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New polling in Arizona’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race is showing a path to victory for firebrand conservative Kari Lake after she remained mired on the losing side of the numbers for months.

Lake, who ran for governor in 2022 with President Trump’s endorsement, now leads her likely Democratic rival, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) by two percent, according to an analysis conducted by The Hill. As the outlet notes, early polling gave a leg up to Gallego, but Lake for months has been hammering home the message that the uncontrollable flood of migrants across the state’s southern border is the result of his enabling of President Biden’s immigration policies. The state went for President Trump by 3.5% in 2016 and was narrowly carried by President Joe Biden by 0.3% four years later.

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The Washington Examiner’s Byron York argued that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is “worried” former President Donald Trump will return to power, referencing Trump’s plan for peace between Ukraine and Russia.

Zelensky spoke at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, during which he made the case for the United States to not wait until November to provide aid to his country in its war against Russia. York, the chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, explained that Zelensky’s plea not to wait until November stems from Trump’s plan to use aid as a negotiating tactic in creating peace between the warring nations.

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Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was non-committal Wednesday morning when asked if she supported President Joe Biden continuing his reelection bid — something the incumbent has repeatedly told Hill Democrats he would do.

“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” Pelosi said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We’re all encouraging him to make that decision, because time is running short.”

When pressed on her answer, as Biden has told Hill Democrats, donors and voters that he plans to stay in the race, Pelosi still demurred: “I want him to do whatever he decides to do.”

The morning appearance highlights the simmering Capitol Hill concerns about Biden’s viability against former President Donald Trump.

Pelosi, for her part, urged a hold on such discussions until after the president finishes hosting the NATO summit this week. Biden will have a press conference on Thursday.

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President Joe Biden’s campaign staff is scrambling to excuse the candidate from a golf contest against his 2024 opponent, former President Donald Trump.

The two presidential candidates clashed at their first debate of the cycle on June 27, where their skill at the gentleman’s sport became a point of contention.

“I just won two club championships, not even senior, two regular club championships,” Trump said on the debate stage in response to a question about his age and fitness. “To do that, you have to be quite smart, and you have to be able to hit the ball a long way. And I do it. He doesn’t do it.

“He can’t hit a ball 50 yards,” the former president continued. “He challenged me to a golf match. He can’t hit a ball 50 yards.”

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The Supreme Court’s stunning ruling giving presidents immunity from prosecution for official acts raises serious questions about orders issued by the commander in chief to the military, especially if those commands clearly violate U.S. or international law.

A commander in chief with broad immunity from criminal prosecution would have more power and leeway in issuing controversial orders that the military is in most cases obligated to carry out, according to the chain of command.The Supreme Court ruling, which came in a case related to former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has sparked general fears about an abuse of power using the military, but also particular concerns about Trump, who has promised to exact revenge if he retakes the White House.

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WASHINGTON — After meeting for around two hours Tuesday to discuss whether President Joe Biden should remain at the top of their presidential ticket, Senate Democrats seemed to agree on one thing — it’s best not to talk about it publicly.

Behind closed doors, several Democrats expressed deep concerns about whether Biden can win. But no Democratic senators publicly called for him to drop his reelection bid, underscoring the deep bind facing the party at a crucial juncture in the campaign. Democratic lawmakers are reeling from Biden’s calamitous performance at the debate two weeks ago, yet the president has made clear, repeatedly and forcefully, that he has no plans to step aside.

Emerging from their meeting Tuesday, senators ducked into elevators, evaded questions, joked, and stated the obvious — that they all want to defeat former Republican Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee. But very few of them would comment on Biden’s future, whether they think he should remain the Democratic candidate, or what the Senate could potentially do about it. Some of them appeared resigned.

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A manhunt was underway in England after a horrific scene unfolded Tuesday evening.

The wife and two daughters of BBC horse racing commentator John Hunt died in their Hertfordshire home after a galling attack that involved a crossbow, the BBC reported Wednesday.

Police identified 26-year-old Kyle Clifford as the primary suspect and were searching for him.

“Detectives investigating a triple murder which occurred in #Bushey yesterday evening (Tuesday 9 July) are actively seeking a man who is wanted in connection with the incident,” North Hertfordshire police said in a Facebook post.

“Police were called to a property in Ashlyn Close just before 7pm. Officers attended alongside colleagues from the East of England Ambulance Service and on arrival, found three women with serious injuries,” the post said. “Sadly, despite their best efforts, the women, who are believed to be related, died a short time later at the scene.

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On this edition of Your Call, we’re discussing the Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling. On June 28, the court’s conservative majority overturned the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, which ensures that federal agency experts, not judges, makes policy decisions.

This decision has made countless policies and regulations vulnerable to legal challenges, including workplace safety regulations, abortion medication, health care coverage rules being implemented through Obamacare, and the Biden administration’s plan to forgive student loan debt.

The Supreme Court ruling could also boost efforts by conservatives who have taken aim at EPA rules limiting planet-warming pollution from vehicles, oil and gas wells and pipelines, and power plants.

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As those eligible for self-deletion continue to include more and more groups of people, Canadians are now beginning to organize to help defend the vulnerable now at risk of being nudged into self-deletion, or euthanasia. One group, the Delta Hospice Society, is focusing on protecting people who are chronically ill or terminally ill from pressure to self-delete.

DHS President Angelina Ireland was quoted from LifesiteNews, saying “Our launch of Guardian Angels is now at the point where we need clients. We are looking for patients inside the healthcare system who would like an Angel, those within hospital, hospice, long-term care, palliative care wards, or people with a chronic or terminal illness.”

The creation of Guardian Angels to protect the vulnerable from euthanasia pushers should be yet another clarion call to the Canadians to reject this culture of death that begins with abortion, then becomes euthanasia, and yet worst is yet to come should Canada not pull out of the death spiral that it is in. They also serve as a roadmap for where our country, America, is headed as we too have embraced the culture of death that begins with abortion and spreads into every other part of our lives.

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“Our launch of Guardian Angels is now at the point where we need clients,” DHS president Angelina Ireland told LifeSiteNews. “We are looking for patients inside the healthcare system who would like an Angel, those within hospital, hospice, long-term care, palliative care wards, or people with a chronic or terminal illness.”

Ireland said that the patients or their loved ones can “reach out to us and request one of our Angels.”

“They are ‘friendly visitors on a mission.’ The mission is to ensure patients are getting proper healthcare, palliative care and to avoid them from being pressured into euthanasia or MAiD,” she said.

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A coalition of 2,700 Medical Professionals, including 1,063 doctors, are asking for a halt to the use of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines. The group signed an official statement called “The Hope Accord.”

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A whopping 2000 plus doctors, scientists, and academics have signed a declaration demanding governments around the world order an “immediate” ban on Covid mRNA shots.

The unprecedented statement, called “The Hope Accord,” has also been signed by over 2700 other healthcare professionals.

In total, the document has now gained over 33,000 signatories.

As Slay News previously reported, The Hope Accord was first launched last week and has quickly gathered a huge amount of support.

At the time of publishing, the statement has gained 33,265 total supporters, including 1028 medical doctors, 2,703 other healthcare professionals, and 1063 scientists and academics.

All of the signature endorsements have been verified to ensure they are from real and qualified professionals.

An FBI Agent who also served as a Twitter lawyer and a liaison between the government and Twitter in their joint venture to interfere with the 2020 election has been selected to be part of an Election Integrity Board. Jim Baker was selected to be part of the National Task Force for Election Crisis, most likely to help create it, not prevent it.

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An FBI agent and Twitter lawyer who previously worked to censor election-related free speech has now joined a national election task force—just in time for the 2024 presidential election.

Former FBI agent Jim Baker, whose bio appears on the National Task Force for Election Crises, might be engaging in more election interference.

The National Task Force for Election Crises claims to work on securing elections and preventing fraud, including by rapid censorship of supposed disinformation. Baker’s tie to the group is particularly concerning because Baker previously helped coordinate the censorship industrial complex built up between federal government agencies and Big Tech companies like Twitter.

Baker’s Task Force bio brags about his career, including roles as the FBI’s general counsel and the Justice Department’s senior staffer and associate deputy attorney general.

During his time at the FBI, Baker helped initiatethe bureau’s investigation of former President Donald Trump’s supposed ties with Russia. What the profile does not mention is Baker’s role at Twitter, where he was allegedly complicitin election interfering censorship.

Before being fired by Twitter (now X) owner Elon Musk, Baker was still reviewing the Twitter Files and even complicated the release of information on how Twitter censored the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

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Arlene Quaratiello was fired by the Dudley-Tucker Library in the town of Raymond, New Hampshire for being conservative. The librarian sued the library, who then issued an apology acknowledging their violation of her first amendment rights. She did not require a rehire as she had already found a better paying job, according to her.

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A conservative New Hampshire librarian secured a legal victory in a First Amendment dispute with her employer. The Town of Raymond and its Dudley-Tucker Library admitted that they wrongfully terminated librarian Arlene Quaratiello for endorsing, in her private capacity, conservative library trustee candidates opposed to “inappropriate” children’s books.

Quaratiello sued after the library terminated her on April 4, 2023, for endorsing the candidates for library trustee positions at another library, according to Quaratiello’s complaint, filed on October 27, 2023.

Quaratiello, the town, and the library entered into the consent order on June 10, 2024, outlining the town and library’s wrongdoing. The parties agreed that Quaratiello’s termination, despite her reinstatement with backpay on April 25, 2023, violated her constitutional rights.

Four days before the consent order, Quaratiello left her position at the library to pursue teaching at a charter school.

PragerU is accusing the for-profit news analysis service NewsGuard of skewing its ratings to disfavor conservatives, and also using its status in the market to actively encourage potential sponsors not to affiliate with these same conservative websites.

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PragerU slammed NewsGuard, a for-profit company that is running a mass blacklisting campaign working with corporations and advertisers to strangle conservative media. PragerU is shining a light on its sly and “insidious” practices aimed at driving conservative media outlets “out of business.” The nonprofit founded by Dennis Prager has launched an X/Twitter takeover with the hashtag #EndBigTechCensorship to expose NewsGuard’s practices.

PragerU CEO Marissa Streit pointed out in a new video that NewsGuard’s co-founder and CEO “is a Democrat Party loyalist,” who is “on record dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop,” adding that NewsGuard staff “is mostly comprised of left-leaning activists and ex-journalists.” Both its leaders and staff claim to target “misinformation,” but in practice, are attempting to shut down any conservative media outlet that dares to stand up to its leftist agenda. Along with launching a campaign on X, PragerU has also launched a petition to “expose NewsGuard and its cronies for suppressing free speech.”

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Democrats remain in disarray after party lawmakers met Tuesday morning about who they should support for president after President Joe Biden’s terrible debate performance.

Biden, 81, who still appears the de facto nominee, stabilized his candidacy on Monday after he aggressively invited primary challengers to the upcoming convention and simultaneously won the support of the “Squad” members.

Not all Democrat lawmakers agree or are happy with Biden remaining atop the ticket. Biden is losing in key swing state surveys, post-debate polling shows. Forty-one percent of Democrat voters want Biden to drop out of the race, while only 51 percent want him to remain on the ticket, a Suffolk University poll found.

Democrats met Tuesday to weigh their options at the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) headquarters. The meeting was moved from the Capitol Building to the DNC’s headquarters to reduce leaks during the potentially heated discussion, Axios reported. Despite the precaution, Democrats leaked to the establishment media and characterized the huddle as a “funeral” with a “significant amount of frustration” and “sadness.”

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A teenager was shot by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s bodyguards during an attempted carjacking in Washington, DC last week. Deputy US Marshal Black, to whom the unmarked government vehicle belonged, opened fire on the suspect, 18-year-old Kentrell Flowers, after he rolled up to the justice’s home, got out, and brandished a firearm while demanding that the vehicle be turned over to him.

After receiving treatment for his wounds at a nearby hospital, Flowers was arrested. He was subsequently charged with armed carjacking, carrying a pistol without a license, and possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device.

According to a statement of facts obtained by the Daily Mail, the incident took place shortly after 1:15 eeam on Friday July 5. At that time, Flowers drove up to Sotomayor’s residence on the 2100 block of 11th Street in a silver minivan before proceeding to jump out and walk over to Black, who was sitting in his vehicle. Flowers pulled out a Smith & Wesson 40VE handgun and pointed it directly at Black, at which point the Marshal drew his government-issued firearm and fired four shots.

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(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump appears to be chipping away at President Joe Biden’s northeastern blue wall with gains in New Hampshire, Virginia and now New Jersey, according to recent polls.

Amid mounting pressure from fellow Democrats for Biden to exit the presidential race, the latest polling from some key blue states may not be the news the Biden campaign longs to hear.

A recent poll of likely New Jersey voters shows Trump leading Biden 41%-40%, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at 7%. The poll, conducted by co/efficient, a market research company, surveyed over 800 likely voters June 26-27 right before the presidential debate.

Traditionally a solid Democratic stronghold, the Garden State hasn’t voted for a Republican in a presidential election since 1988. There are 14 electoral college votes at stake.

A poll conducted in late March by Emerson College shows that New Jersey voters may have started drifting away from the president earlier, with Trump only trailing Biden by 5% (41%-36%) and Kennedy at 8%.

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The Biden administration has warned China against continuing to conduct armed attacks on the Philippines, but China has blatantly ignored the warning, repeatedly harassing Philippine naval vessels and severely injuring its sailors over the past several months.

Beijing, for its part, has accused Washington of using the Philippines as a pawn and seems to have every intention of continuing to escalate the dispute.

That dispute centers on the Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed reef within the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines, but also within China’s illegal “nine-dash line” maritime claim in the South China Sea.

The dispute is not new, and China has used a wide array of tools to harass and intimidate the Philippines over the past several years. What’s new is the frequency of these incidents and the higher levels of force being employed by the Chinese coast guard against Philippine navy sailors.

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The House of Representatives’s far-left “Squad” is likely to lose another member after last month’s embarrassing defeat of Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY).

Socialist Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is polling narrowly behind her primary opponent Wesley Bell, who had polled below Bush by double digits earlier this year. Bell is St. Louis County’s prosecuting attorney, and he also leads Bush in favorability and job performance ratings.

Bush has faced numerous controversies during her time in elected office, the most recent of which included falling for a parody social media account called “Rabbi Linda Goldstein” that pretends to be the chief rabbi of Gaza and make cartoonishly antisemitic posts in an attempt to trick progressives into sharing them.

“Goldstein” reached out to Bush’s campaign in June with a proposal to hold a fundraiser. “I’ve been bouncing around different cities since my congregation was displaced from Gaza after Israel’s invasion on October 7,” the prankster wrote in an email to Ronika Moody, the campaign’s finance and engagement director.

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For decades, we’ve been told pasteurizing milk kills harmful bacteria and reduces food borne illnesses. If that’s true, then where did all the hype around raw milk come from? Why is something that was long written off as dangerous suddenly the trendiest food on the market?

Dr. Paul Saladino, a double board certified MD, the host of the “Fundamental Health” podcast, and the leading authority on the carnivore diet, recently joined Dave Rubin on “The Rubin Report” to explain the truth behind the controversial beverage and why the government seems to have a big problem with it.

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In terms of the Biden administration, it’s another day ending in Y for coverups and questionable connections. On Saturday, writer Alex Berenson exposed that White House visitor logs revealed a Parkinson’s specialist had visited 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue eight times.

Adding injury atop the insult that the Biden administration and the legacy media have been covering up the sitting president’s cognitive decline for what appears to be quite some time, this Parkinson’s specialist, Dr. Kevin Cannard, is also a financial contributor to the Biden campaign and has been since 2020.

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. Today we’ll be continuing to keep an eye on Congress, where lawmakers are mulling how – or if – to deal with the question of whether to call on Joe Biden to halt his re-election campaign after a devastating debate performance that raised questions about his age and ability to win in November. Biden has scored the surprising and weighty endorsement of the progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), who has in the past clashed with Biden over policy. Biden’s meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus also went well for the president, with members of the caucus reportedly presenting unified support for Biden. That kind of institutional support on the Hill will help Biden, but it hasn’t quelled anxieties about his re-election bid – and more members of Congress could rally around his ouster still.

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One new report said there are two names in contention to be former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate, while other reports added a third name and others said anything could happen.

According to the New York Post, the stretch run in the veepstakes is between Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum.

The Post gave Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida an “outside shot” and — in a report full of sources it did not name — said neither Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina or former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson were likely. Trump is scheduled to unveil his pick on Monday, July 15.

One speculating source said the pick would be “J.D., Marco or Burgum” and that the source  did not “see a scenario where one of those three doesn’t end up getting it.”

“I would give Burgum and J.D. a little more of an edge than Marco,” the source said, adding  that “Marco still has a shot” and that “Burgum and J.D. have an equal shot.”

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North Carolina’s attorney general has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a federal rule that regulates ghost guns—untraceable weapons often made at home from kits—like other firearms.

Attorney General Josh Stein has asked the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision that overturned the ghost gun rule, arguing that it’s a common-sense measure to prevent gun violence and help law enforcement solve crimes.

In North Carolina, Stein said there has been a spike of more than 1,700 percent in ghost gun recoveries from 2020 to 2023.

In a clarification to the Gun Control Act of 1968, ATF added kits and parts that can be easily converted to fully-functional firearms to the definition of a gun, subjecting them to the same rules as conventionally manufactured weapons.

The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit struck it down as an impermissible expansion of the GCA and the appeal of that decision will be heard by the Supreme Court during its next term.