The actions include a directive that the justice department, within the next month, will issue a proposed regulation on “ghost weapons”: unregistered firearms that can be assembled from parts.
Biden will also instruct the justice department to clarify the regulations to ensure that guns equipped with stabilizing brackets, which basically turn them into rifles, will be regulated by national firearms law. Pistols are cheaper and easier to transport across state lines, while rifles are more regulated. …
And the president will ask several agencies to direct more resources to community violence prevention measures and will ask the justice department to develop model “red flag” laws that allow family members to file petitions in court to take up arms of fire to people who consider themselves a threat. – for states to accept and adopt. Several states, including Colorado, already have red flag laws in the books.