United States v. Stewart

·2003

What the Court Decided

A federal appellate court held that a kit designed and sold to enable construction of a specific type of firearm constituted a regulated weapon under federal firearms laws, supporting the principle that curated collections of parts intended to produce a gun can be regulated as firearms.

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Cited In

Garland v. VanDerStok

2024 Term · 23-852

The government cited Stewart as pre-existing judicial precedent establishing that weapon parts kits — in that case, a kit for constructing an Uzi-style firearm — can constitute regulated firearms, showing ATF's rule codifies established case law rather than creating a novel regulatory category.