United States v. Wick

What the Court Decided

A federal case holding that a parts kit designed to facilitate illegal machine gun construction qualified as a regulated weapon under federal law, establishing that using parts kits to evade firearms regulations is not a novel theory invented by the 2022 ATF rule.

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Cited In

Garland v. VanDerStok

2024 Term · 23-852

The government cited Wick alongside Stewart as another example of pre-rule case law treating weapon parts kits as regulated firearms, reinforcing that the ATF rule's approach has judicial support predating the modern ghost gun era.